Water filtration membranes morph like cells
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Morphogenesis is nature’s way of building diverse structures and functions out of a fixed set of components. While nature is rich with examples of morphogenesis – cell...
View Article08. Space of Mr Giedion
Giedion's choice of the Lepsius image of the pyramid is not accidental Lepsius himself was the product of the 19h century with a view of the world as detached from human consciousness and experience....
View ArticleStone inscription goes missing from Sarkhej Roza
One of the finest monuments in Gujarat, the 72-acre Sarkhej Roza, is grappling with an unusual problem.
View ArticleA Zaha Hadid-designed city in the metaverse captures the ambitions of Liberland
The Free Republic of Liberland had all the trappings of nationhood when it launched in 2015. Founded by libertarian Czech politician Vít Jedlička, the micronation located on three square miles of no...
View ArticleArchaeologists find 9,000-year-old shrine in Jordan desert
The ritual complex was found in a Neolithic campsite near large structures known as “desert kites,” or mass traps that are believed to have been used to corral wild gazelles for slaughter.
View ArticleA laser-quick and non-destructive method to detect cracks in concrete...
Large concrete structures need to be regularly tested for defects that may compromise their stability. While acoustic tests performed by certified inspectors are usually the inspection method of...
View ArticleWhy fear when Urban Loo is here?
[Toilets, and Toilets Private Limited] have built a bootstrapped ‘Urban Loo’ at the Secunderabad Railway Station that will be inaugurated by Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav and...
View ArticlePanvel: Standing committee clears proposal for PMC new building, to be ready...
In the next two and a half years, the Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC) will get its own administrative building in Panvel.
View ArticleResearchers develop design scheme for fiber reinforced composites – Their...
Fiber reinforced composites (FRCs), which are engineering materials comprising stiff fibers embedded in a soft matrix, typically have a constant fiber radius that limits their performance. Now,...
View ArticleBata’s town Zlín is celebrating its 700th birthday – Zlín is celebrating its...
The first written records of the Zlín settlement come from 1322, when it was bought by Queen Eliška Rejčka and donated to the Brno monastery. The city gained its present face in the era of the...
View Article‘A brutalist hanging gardens of Babylon’ – the maddening, miraculous Barbican...
Conceived as a utopian city within a city, the labyrinthine London landmark had a troubled path on its way to being hailed as an architectural icon. But is this world-class arts centre now in danger of...
View ArticleAncient humans impact African island environment: Was Zanzibar's shoreline...
Humanity's impact on the environment is often framed in the context of the post-industrial era but new archaeological research reveals how intensive land use by a medieval East African population...
View ArticleDid a Tough Environment Shape the Evolution of Human Creativity?...
Between the time when early modern humans emerged in Africa and when they spread around the globe, they developed complex behaviors that enabled them — and us — to adapt and thrive in new environments....
View ArticleArchaeologists discover innovative 40,000-year-old culture in China: A...
The discovery of a new culture suggests processes of innovation and cultural diversification occurring in Eastern Asia during a period of genetic and cultural hybridization. Although previous studies...
View ArticleHammer and tongs: Delhi’s oldest ISBT to be put to test for stability
NEW DELHI: The Maharana Pratap Inter-State Bus Terminal at Kashmere Gate, the city’s oldest and once its busiest, will undergo a structural audit to determine the stability of the over 40-year-old...
View ArticleA Flawed MoMA Exhibition Erases the Social Context of South Asian Modernism –...
Given this visual link between architectural style and technological prowess, both modernism in architecture and the rational comprehensive model of city planning in South Asia are best understood as...
View ArticleCollectors in the prehistoric world recycled old stone tools to preserve the...
A first-of-its-kind study at Tel Aviv University asks what drove prehistoric humans to collect and recycle flint tools that had been made, used, and discarded by their predecessors. After examining...
View ArticleConservatives should embrace urbanism: It’s the spirit that built America
Iconsider myself an urbanist — despite the fact I lean to the right. Or perhaps, in my case, because of it. But what exactly is “urbanism”? It’s a new term that carries a lot of different meanings.
View Article09. Place, Space and consciousness
It is necessary to make a distinction between the space of perception and the abstract, absolute space, which has in modern times acquired the position of the normative conception of space not only in...
View ArticleAncient Mexican city endured for centuries without extremes in wealth and power
Location, location, location—it’s the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it’s been widely assumed that being close to resources drives settlement patterns, with cities generally founded near...
View ArticleHistorically 'redlined' urban areas have higher levels of air pollution
In the wake of the Great Depression, the federally sponsored Home Owners' Loan Corporation drew maps of neighborhoods in U.S. cities that characterized their desirability for mortgage lending. Many...
View Article10. Duality
Unlike most countries, where a single language identifies and unifies all their citizens, India is a multilingual society with a two-tier structure of the knowledge system. The ancient clasical...
View ArticleUkraine's libraries are offering bomb shelters, camouflage classes and, yes,...
With their country thrust into war, libraries are also bringing in specialists to provide psychological help to residents struggling to cope with an unwelcome new reality.
View ArticleA photo exhibit unveils the making of India’s first modern city
The exhibition 'Chandigarh – Down the Memory Lane' celebrates the foundation of a city that embodied the aspirations of thousands of Indians seeking an identity after Independence (sic!). ....
View ArticlePartitions: Architectures of Statelessness
A normative rendering of the Partition of 1947 has been entrenched so deeply as an antagonism between one political, religious, or national constituency versus another that it is considered to be the...
View ArticleThe Ongoing Looting of Sri Lanka’s Cultural Heritage – Artifacts stolen from...
The Kotawehera temple is one of the oldest remaining structures in Sri Lanka: The building and its artifacts are used in daily worshipping rituals and play an important role in local myths and stories....
View ArticleAhmedabad: Illegal structures double in 4 years in heritage zones
Ahmedabad may lose its coveted World Heritage City title if the AMC remains indifferent to the plight of Unesco-registered cultural buildings.
View ArticleQuarries, trade and Dark Emu: unearthing treasures from ‘Australia’s Silk...
In December, Westaway and collaborators received grant funding to investigate plant domestication and possible village sites on Mithaka land.
View ArticleA megalopolis of engineering: the verdict on London’s £18bn new Elizabeth...
The line sprinkles real estate fairy dust everywhere it goes.
View ArticleCities Can Be Part of the Solution in Sustaining Species
Urban land expansion of up to 1.53 million square kilometers of new land will threaten the survival of more than 800 species but a focus on urban planning that protects habitats can mitigate the...
View ArticleKathmandu’s ancient water spouts still functioning – The water supply network...
This indigenous technology reached its peak during the Lichhavi period (ca. 200-879 CE). The Mallas (1200-1769 CE) largely expanded the hiti system. One of the oldest documented hiti, Mani Hiti in...
View ArticlePritzker Prize awarded to Burkina Faso-German architect – The Pritzker...
The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Diébédo Francis Kéré, a Berlin-based architect, educator and social activist, for a craft that is “sustainable to the earth and its inhabitants in...
View ArticleNovel theory of entropy may solve materials design issues
A challenge in materials design is that in both natural and humanmade materials, volume sometimes decreases, or increases, with increasing temperature. While there are mechanical explanations for this...
View Article11. The way of Tagore
The struggle to reconcile ancient wisdom with the new modernist idioms is most pronounced in architects who received their introduction to modern architecture via exposure to Bauhaus and the...
View ArticleReview: Truth and Lies in Architecture
It’s paradoxical … that in Truth and Lies, Francis-Jones is in full combat mode, leaving no stone unturned as he critically excoriates contemporary architecture and examines the tracks of its diminishment
View ArticleGetty Foundation grants $240,000 to architectural archive damaged by fire
The Getty Foundation has awarded a $240,000 grant to help restore critically important architectural archives damaged by an April 2021 fire.
View ArticleNew computer predictive model useful in identifying ancient hunter-gatherer...
Researchers looking to identify some of the most difficult 'finds' in archaeology -- including sites used by nomadic hunter-gatherer communities -- are tapping technology to help in the search....
View ArticleThe colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, from 9,000 years ago
An international team with participation of the University of Bern provides new insights about how the inhabitants of the "oldest city in the world" in Çatalhöyük (Turkey) buried their dead. Their...
View Article12. The Way of Gandhi: Primacy of the 'Parampara'
it is this reciprocity between the past and the present, between the traditions and modernity that marked the difference between Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi. It was Gandhi who showed us that...
View ArticleReading the Indian Palace – Online event hosted by Centre for Historic Houses...
Part of the Lecture Series "Great Minds in Heritage & Historic Houses" hosted by the Centre for Historic Houses of India. Prof. Attilio Petruccioli is founder of the Bibliotheca Orientalis, Bari,...
View ArticleThree colleges to be merged to form state-level university – A government...
The JJ Institute of Applied Arts, JJ School of Arts and JJ College of Architecture are planning to merge and form one state-level university.
View ArticleLeftovers in prehistoric pots let scientists peek into the kitchen of an...
How to reconstruct the cookery of people who lived thousands of years ago? Bones and plant remains can tell us what kind of ingredients were available. But to reconstruct how ingredients were combined...
View Article‘It’s a kind of revenge’: Damascus suburb demolished as Assad builds a ‘new...
The Syrian regime is bulldozing former rebel-held neighbourhoods in Damascus under the guise of mine clearance to make space for a “new Syria” of upmarket new building developments and pristine gardens.
View ArticleRenovated Hosapete railway station turns replica of Hampi's Rock Chariot
The railway station at Hosapete being renovated at a cost of Rs 8 crore jointly by the Railways and Tourism department, resembles the famous Stone Chariot of Virupaksha temple at Hampi, a UNESCO World...
View ArticleIndian forest loss 'worse than feared' due to climate change – Forest loss...
Forest loss in India could become an even bigger problem than anticipated in the coming years, with new research revealing climate change has caused significant recent losses. The first ever...
View ArticleFrom Ancient Egypt to Teotihuacán, Centuries-Old Palettes Illuminate the Role...
For all the paint fragments found throughout the ancient world, on murals, pottery, sculpture, and scrolls, surprisingly few ancient paint palettes have been uncovered. Ancient palettes in the...
View ArticleShigeru Ban is on the ground helping war-torn Ukrainian refugees in Poland
Shigeru Ban had been working with students from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology on the influx of Ukrainian refugees sheltering in
View ArticleLuc Durand: Leaving Delhi
Canadian architect Luc Durand studied in Switzerland with Montparnasse Tower's Eugene Beaudoin, built numerous structures in Nehru's India, designed both the Quebec Pavilion for the iconic Expo ’67 and...
View ArticleChristopher Alexander, R.I.P.
The great architectural and computer design theorist Christopher Alexander, born in Vienna and of British and American citizenship, died at his home in Binsted, Sussex, U.K
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