Slice of Life
Through his latest exhibition, Delhi-based architect Gautam Bhatia questions the premise of architectural practice in India.
View ArticleWhen Robert Venturi and Jane Jacobs upset the modernist apple cart
Though Complexity's anniversary isn't receiving anything like the hype that Jacobs' book is, it won't go ignored, thanks to New York's Museum of Modern Art and the University of Pennsylvania. To...
View ArticleThe Virtual Splendor of Paris’s Glass House
The show begins with a witty fantasy: six short filmed vignettes quickly conjure a luxurious interwar dwelling like those enjoyed by Chareau’s clients. Projected onto blazing white paper, these silent...
View ArticleGoing Head to Head With Pierre Chareau
The exhibition’s design team, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, has been exploring for decades what Elizabeth Diller, a founding partner, calls “real” and “mediated” experiences: actual views juxtaposed...
View Article“Educating Architects and Planners in the Twentieth Century”
On 8-9 September 2017, the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland celebrates its centenary. Events include a symposium on the Friday, followed that evening by a book launch...
View ArticleAshis Nandy on future of India: 'A poor man’s America, with shrinkage of...
In walked Ashis Nandy, freshly bathed, in a T-shirt, and squatted in the sofa next to me. He immediately picked up a smoking pipe and began cleaning it. “Coffee or tea?” To the shrug of my shoulder and...
View ArticleRapid urbanisation: Architects want CDA to revisit capital’s master plan
ISLAMABAD: In light of the fast-changing landscape of the capital owing to rapid urbanisation, a body of architects in Islamabad have called for revisiting the master plan of the city, with due input...
View ArticleThe Next President's Urban Policy Opportunity
If inequality is greatest within cities and across metropolitan areas, why hasn’t either presidential candidate applied a distinctly “urban” lens to the challenges of this growing problem? And how can...
View ArticleRasem Kamal proposes underground dwellings for Jordan's Wadi Rum
Architect Rasem Kamal has proposed a network of burrow-like spaces that would sprawl out beneath a UNESCO-protected valley in the Jordanian desert.Kamal, an architect and designer at the Basel office...
View ArticlePoor Taste (Santa Barbara, 28 Apr 17)
Cultural consumers are defined and classified by their taste. Through an evaluation of their choices and preferences, whether biologically or socially informed, taste functions as a mechanism of...
View ArticleNot-At-Home (San Francisco, 8 Apr 17)
Not at Home is an opportunity to discuss how visual material has registered changing relations to home over time. How have home and its opposites - displacement, estrangement, voyage, or exile -...
View ArticleConference: Is the Urban Future Livable?
This conference explores how the three issues of city development, sense of community and housing need, all combine to make lives in our cities livable – or not. This urban focus is linked to questions...
View ArticleJJ colleges, sanctuaries of art & architecture, get autonomy
MUMBAI: The city's sanctuaries of art and architecture, long groaning under indifference, just got a new lease of life. The state government has decided to grant them autonomy, the freedom to design...
View ArticleGujarat leads flagship welfare schemes funded by Centre: Venkaiah Naidu
GANDHINAGAR: Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu attributed Gujarat Government's people-oriented proactive policies to the state's leading in the country in Centrally-sponsored peoples'...
View ArticleSmart City: Progress in Delhi likely to be rapid through 2017, says Nokia
NEW DELHI: A report by Nokia on Tuesday presented key findings from the smart city initiatives of New Delhi and Pune among other cities where it said that progress in Delhi is likely to be rapid...
View ArticleWhat the Playable Cities Concept Gets Wrong
Of course, there is one group for whom this stuff often works: children. The infantilizing frolics of playable infrastructure must be great if y
View ArticleCalvino’s Invisible Cities Made Visible: The Drawings of Karina Puente
The cities in Italo Calvino’s novel are metaphors for cities. And for our experiences, alone and together, within the walls we construct around ourselves, walls being metaphors themselves. And are...
View ArticleWhy Republicans Don’t Even Try to Win Cities Anymore
Mr. Trump has elevated a strategy that is risky to the Republican Party in the long run. Not only have recent Republican candidates neglected cities, but they’ve also run against them, casting urban...
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