Stories are lies; stories are truths. Each story is subject to time; through re-telling, re-remembering, re-visiting, and re-starting, the story changes in composition and meaning. By their very nature, stories…
Eyes—puffed and deprived of days of sleep, legs barely taking the weight of the exhausted body, messy hair, aching backs, and fingers with multiple cuts. No, this is no zombie…
How do architects build what they build? How do they construct a narrative that speaks in terms of meaningful spaces? Are architects also ‘storytellers’? Before I made my pursuit in…
Architecture, in its essence, goes beyond just designing buildings and landscapes that amalgamate with theories and various construction techniques. Architecture is deep, layered and defines almost every facet of our…
Architecture college is a place that does not conform to the way of learning in a usual higher learning department. We create, we lug away, we sit around and think…
Guernica is arguably one of the most iconic and powerful anti-war paintings of the 20th century. Created by the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in 1937, this work of art…
The Architect is a balancing act while studying to emerge and not flatten into the mass, while filing, suffering, his idea, as he watches his creature grow and mutate, as…
How Does That Start? Being the student who is just an average throughout the school doesn’t have many options when they have to make their career path after high school…
There are perhaps more than a hundred gains in architecture school. While these achievements may vary to the individual, also those create a common language that connects us all over…
Telling Stories Through Architecture When we consider how stories might be told through architecture, the more obvious techniques might come to mind. Perhaps you recall seeing tales in the patterns…
Storytellers are often surmised to be learned human beings – well experienced and well-traveled, narrating anecdotes, reminiscing events, encounters, and adventures they come across. These narratives engage our minds, instigate…
Architecture is a subject that can be seen through many different perceptions. Some people like to think about it in a rational way, as a practical technique. Others prefer to…
