Makoko exists at the edge of convention. Located by the Lagos lagoon, in Nigeria, Makoko is an informal human settlement and is home to over 300,000 fishermen who struggle to…
The Invisible Classroom On any ordinary evening in an Indian neighbourhood, learning unfolds in places we rarely recognise as classrooms. A child stands at the edge of a cricket pitch,…
Remember the 2006 cinematic classic The Holiday? In a desperate bid to escape their messy personal lives, an LA movie-trailer producer swaps her automated, sleek glass mansion for a cramped,…
The Same City, Two Different Experiences Now imagine a woman who leaves her workplace at half past eight in the evening. First, before going out of her office building, she…
Status update… feed….stories…..the metrics…. Notifications…. filters…..group chats This makes a new definition of a social network. While we now look for the digital feeds to ‘stay connected ‘, the pols…
“How India’s Military Architecture Shaped Urban Planning” Behind the tree-lined avenues and orderly streets of many Indian cities lies an unexpected story, one that began with military camps. Long before…
The Starchitect The birth of the ‘starchitect’ both within and beyond the built environment is often attributed to the modern architectural movement. With the rise of both digital and print…
What if the most important classroom in a person’s life was not inside a school, but outside a window? Most of us remember a street from our childhood. Not necessarily…
In the 2019 Hindi movie “Gully Boy”, set in Mumbai, India, we see Ranveer Singh wandering in the streets of Dharavi. His neighbourhood is dimly lit, illuminated only by shop…
Every day we walk by dozens of buildings and don’t really see them. A local school, a bus stop, a small terraced house or an old post office can often…
In India, every morning, cities wake up in buildings they haven’t built themselves. Before office doors are opened, before metro stations fill up, and before shutters come up, many construction…
The first roof was not made; it was grown. Before man discovered how to mine stones, bake bricks or pour concrete, nature had perfected the science of providing shelter. First,…