The sky is one whole, and the water another and in between these two infinities is their symphony, like a…
Terrain Vague
A complex, fragmented and at times, contradictory meaning, terrain vague is a collective term for a host of subtypes of…
Baroda Thresholds !
The feeling of ‘IN’ and ‘OUT’
Gaya : The city of the departed souls
DISCLAIMER: The case study was done as a part of INTACH’s (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, New…
The climb may be hard, but the view os GOLD!
Excited but, nervous and yet, at the same time determined to experience the world’s third toughest trek, we, a group…
Attitudes for Architecture in the next century : : Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism, Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting
Somol and Whiting’s seminal essay ‘Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism’, published in the year 2002…
Form, Place and Understanding :: Structure of the Ordinary, N. J. Habraken
John Habraken a Dutch architect received his training at the Delft Technical Univeristy in the Netherlands and went on to…
Negotiations and Contingencies :: Architecture Depends, Jeremy Till
The book ‘Architecture Depends’ was published in such a time (the year 2009) when Architects in England were facing a…
REVOLUTION OR, ARCHITECTURE :: Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture
Following the French Revolution of the 1789, which propagated the idea of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, the dawn of the…
EXISTENCE, INTENTIONS AND MEANINGS :: Christian Norberg-Schulz
Christian Norberg-Schulz was a Norwegian architect, author and theorist associated with architectural Phenomenology. Phenomenology, in general, is the philosophical study…
Jane Jacobs versus Robert Moses : : The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The post Second World War Reconstruction Era in the United States was characterized by an unobstructed development. There was an…
The Third World Architecture :: After the Masters
The ‘modern’ architecture, planning and nation- building efforts following the country’s independence from colonialism is many a times regarded as…
Fervour, Passion, Rage, Sweat : : THE REVOLUTION
Adolf Loos’s ‘Ornament and Crime’ and, the ‘Founding and Manifesto of Futurism by F.T. Marinetti’, written at the beginning of…
The case of Alternate Realities
The phenomenon of historicism in the history of history writing is a relatively new concept, given the timeline of documentation of…
A History of Architecture : : A matter of perspective!
Sir Bannister Fletcher’s ‘A History of Architecture’ a compilation of the history of architectural styles across the globe was originally…
Of mudras and the yantras !
Samarangana Sutradhara, the encyclopedic work by the Parmara King Bhoja of Dhar is a collection of vast number of subject…
Of Art and Architecture!
Art? Architecture? What is it which certainly defines the realms of the two? Or, are the two really undistinguishable, or…
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