Yatin Pandya, the founder of FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. (Environment Architecture Research Technology Housing), is an author, activist, academician, researcher, and practicing architect. He has written over 200 articles published in national…
The Podcast here derives a conversation between Chitra and Vishwanath Srikantaiah. Both work in their interdisciplinary firm Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd. focusing on environmentally friendly architecture, water conservation and…
Scotland has always been associated with heritage and castle-like structures whenever it comes to architecture. One such explicitly remarkable architecture is highlighted in the capital city of Edinburgh at the…
Ethiopia is the second-most crowded country in Africa with a near 100 million populace, and just 20% of which live in metropolitan regions. The architecture of Ethiopia shifts extraordinarily from…
Vernacular Architecture of Ghana highly contributes to sustainable or green buildings. Vernacular architecture is something that has been a part of human evolution. Adobes evolved when humans tried to protect themselves…
Vernacular architecture can be characterized as a kind of nearby or local development, utilizing customary materials and assets from the space where the structure is found. Thus, this architecture is…
With the active growth of rural practices in a desire to have a convenient lifestyle, we are adopting some practices which are human-centric regardless of what damage has been done…
When the term third world country was first coined during the Cold War, it referred to countries that weren’t allied with NATO or Warsaw Pact. At that time, nations of…
An ideal material would be one that could be borrowed from the environment and replaced after use. It would be cheap and would perform well both thermally and acoustically. One…
Vernacular Architecture, a term given to the local architecture of any particular area, constructed using the traditional materials that are present in abundance. This typology of architecture, widely practised once,…
There has been a rise in the number of catastrophic incidents damaging historic and modern buildings. These are usually due to the heavy rainfall, flood, drought, heatwaves and cyclonic winds.…
Bamboo is an abundant natural resource available around the world’s tropical and subtropical regions. Since ancient times it has been a well-established building material due to its natural characteristics and…