In olden days, people built buildings with local materials and construction techniques. The architectural style depended on local masons and carpenters. Temples were built based on the local beliefs and…
Dakshinachitra, a living heritage museum about 25 kilometres south of Chennai overlooking the Bay of Bengal along the beautiful East Coast Road, was conceived and created by the Madras Craft…
Architecture is closely connected to the place where it is built. A building in a hot desert cannot respond to its surroundings in the same way as a house in…
Tree of closeness: it’s the flat, corrugated iron roof welded onto the house to stop the water from leaking through in that one spot they knew about for years and…
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…