The Walls in Our Heads
And what metaphor could be more substantial than a wall? The word “border,” with its vague associations with “neighboring,” seems vaporous, but a wall conveys protection, an unyielding solidity. Mr....
View ArticleSmartGram facilities inaugurated at villages adopted by Prez
Residents of five Haryana villages, which have been adopted by President Pranab Mukherjee, can now have access to doctors at Rashtrapati Bhavan
View ArticleSurat adjudged as best in Integrated Mass Transit
Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India held a conference on urban mobility India (UMI) in Gandhinagar for the first time outside New Delhi to find best urban smart city solutions and SMC...
View ArticleRajasthan Government comes up with Smart Village initiative, Inspired by...
....At the same event, she appealed to Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu to look into the subject.Naidu responded positively, saying: “It will be put before the cabinet for...
View Article‘UK-Pune working together on smart cities’
Liam Fox, British Secretary of State for International Trade, led the delegation and PMC made a presentation of its ongoing and planned projects
View ArticleUK firms extend help for smart city project
PUNE: UK based firms extended help to the Smart city mission projects in Pune. Representatioves of these companies, along with senior UK government officials, attended a special workshop titled,...
View ArticleIndia-UK collaboration in Amaravati building stressed
Mr Naidu urged the UK government to make use of the opportunities presented by Amaravati and other smart cities of AP.
View ArticleTech to transform Rajasthan agriculture landscape: Chief minister Vasundhara...
JAIPUR: Chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Wednesday said Rajasthan is committed to transform its agricultural landscape by actively adopting world-class technology and innovation with an objective to...
View ArticleJohn Hayes is wrong about Brutalism – architecture doesn't have to be pretty
John Hayes, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, has launched a “bloody battle” against a “cult of ugliness” in architecture: “the overwhelming majority of public architecture built during...
View ArticleTowards an Art History of pre-contemporary Africa
Contributions to a thematic issue for 2018 (issue No. 9) of the online journal Afriques. Débats, méthodes et terrains d'histoireAfrican material culture is featured in art museums around the world, but...
View ArticleMies van der Rohe und die Bildlichkeit der Architektur (Aachen, 2-3 Dec 2016)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) schuf zwischen 1910 und 1965 eine Vielzahl von Fotomontagen und Collagen. Diese meist großformatigen Arbeiten sind weit mehr als skizzenhafte Werkzeug des...
View ArticleReflections on Architecture, Society and Politics - Social and Cultural...
The book has been produced in conjunction with the scholarly journal Architecture_MPS who are preparing a special Issue on the themes of the book for late 2017. Articles should in some way respond to...
View ArticleDesign and Displacement - 6-7 April 2017, Smithsonian Design Museum, New...
The challenges faced by vast numbers of migrants and refugees worldwide—uprooted by war, persecution, or ecological crises or relocating in search of economic opportunity—are giving rise to innovative...
View ArticleDesign Dispersed: Forms of Migration and Flight - LMU Munich, Germany, 9-10...
LMU MuThe transdisciplinary conference "Design Dispersed" pursues the complex and heterogeneous connections between migration and design in the 20th and 21st centuries. Its spectrum ranges from Hussein...
View ArticleEVA London Conference 2017
Proposing for EVA London 2017: Proposals may be for a paper, a paper with demo, a demonstration, a workshop, or a panel discussion.Your proposal should come under one of the conference themes.Summary...
View ArticleInflection: Journal of the Melbourne School of Design vol. 4 - Permanence...
Architectural permanence is widely associated with the Vitruvian definition of firmitas: mass and solidity crafted to endure. It is a lineage that runs deep in the history of architecture, from the...
View ArticleThe Built Environment through the Colonial Press (Lisbon, 22-25 May 17)
One of the most visible faces of colonial power and one of the most permanent were the changes in the built environment: the construction of buildings, ports, roads, railways or other infrastructures...
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