Marco Polo in 1272, after a visit to Persia (City of Yazd) wrote “Yazd is a good and noble city and has a great amount of trade.” Here, obviously just…
Ahmedabad is India’s first city to have been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage City in the year 2017. One reason for this is its small neighborhoods, known as pols,…
The world is evolving with new trends, innovations, and new materials. When talking about designing a single project, be it a house, the market follows trends, and what the market…
Streetscapes and climate While walking through a Goan street, one can easily identify the blend of tropical heat and the calming sloping roof. This is an apt representation of how…
Every year, summer arrives in India like a slow-burning fire. As the sun grows fierce and the air seems to stand still, stepping outside feels impossible. Yet, beneath this relentless…
Biomimicry is usually regarded as one of the more modern concepts in architecture. To understand ventilation, designers take cues from termite nests; to design structural systems, they look to shells;…
Global warming and climate change are two of the serious problems plaguing the 21st century. The oxygen levels are dropping; the ocean levels are rising; the ozone layer is depleting,…
The Oyo State Cultural Centre sits hidden, almost in isolation, among the thick vegetation atop the Mokola hill. The building isn’t seen until it is seen. As the road climbs…
Sundaranand is a Co-Living shelter for an urban context situated near the university area in Ahmedabad, India. The process of building this shelter took years; it started in 2022 and…
There are horror shows that scare you with entities and monsters. Then there are shows that make the very idea of going home frightening. FROM belongs in the second category.…
Elizabeth Ekadashi is a 2014 Marathi film directed by Paresh Mokashi and set in the pilgrimage town of Pandharpur, Maharashtra. The story follows two children, Dnyanesh and Mukta, as their…
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer’s words perhaps describe Karwaan better than anything else: a journey that begins with escape…