Our New Urban Oases
This model of urban design has come to be known as landscape urbanism. One of its primary theoreticians, Charles Waldheim, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, traces its roots to...
View ArticleSession Italian Art Society at SAH (St. Paul, 18-22 Apr 18)
The Italian Art Society is seeking ideas for one sponsored session at the 71st annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). Members interested in putting together a panel on any...
View ArticleGoverment 'apathy' may cost Nalanda heritage tag
PATNA: The ruins of the ancient Nalanda University may lose its world heritage status because of the alleged inaction of the state government and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
View ArticleIndia has most urban-dwellers without sanitation: Report
KOCHI: With the breakneck speed of expansion of cities, India has the greatest number of urban-dwellers in the world without safe, private toilets and practising open defecation though the government...
View ArticleUD ministry to speed up infra development-paradigm shift in investment approval
Concerned over the delay and seeking to ensure timely implementation of basic urban infrastructure projects and achieve targets of Atal missions by 2019-20, the ministry of urban development, in a...
View ArticleUD Ministry approves investment projects for 3 years
Seeking to ensure timely implementation of basic urban infrastructure projects and achieve mission target of AMRUT scheme by 2019-20, the Urban Development Ministry has begun approving investments for...
View ArticleCompared to AIA letters issued during Obama's election, CEO Robert Ivy's...
While all three statements appear, on their face, as form-letters expressing that the AIA will work with the President-elect insofar as their usual role demands, the 2008/2012 statements differ in a...
View ArticleEggleston's Empty America
Many of William Eggleston’s great photographs make a point of seeming to show nothing at all. Consider The Democratic Forest, a new book published in conjunction with an exhibition at the David Zwirner...
View ArticleGlobal urban planners in Barcelona watch Naya Raipur’s ‘Smart City’ plan
Chhattisgarh Urban Development Minister Rajesh Munat on Friday alongwith senior officials of Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) held extensive discussions on extension of low-cost citizen...
View ArticleDraft proposal for Srinagar Smart City finalized
The draft proposal for Srinagar Smart City Challenge has been finalised by the Consulting Agency and same has been uploaded1 and also on the SMC website on 16th of November 2016.
View ArticleBuilding Dreams and Nightmares
Forty years ago, Architectural Record asked me to review the granddaddy of all “what if?” books on the building art, Alison Sky and Michelle Stone’s Unbuilt America: Forgotten Architecture in the...
View ArticlePR: Women’s issues progress at architecture school
Only one student enrolled in a Yale course about women architects, despite grievances against poor representation
View ArticleElevated corridors will facilitate public transport: R K Misra
...the principle behind the elevated corridor network in Bengaluru? R K Misra who proposed the plan to the government talks about it.
View ArticleSmart City indicators are here
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has issued the indicators for the proposed ‘Smart Cities’ to be raised in India. The Document (CED-59) 10,000 WC has been placed in the public domain for eliciting...
View ArticleKolkata corporation limited: Trump Tower in Kolkata under Trump Organization...
According to real estate sources, Trump Organizationwill review the 38-storied tower that has been designed by Aedas of Singapore along with local partners Maheswari Architects of Kolkata, and provide...
View ArticleIndo-American Engineers And Architects Hold Annual Gala
The Society of Indo-American Engineers and Architects held its 36th annual gala Nov. 5 at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan attended among others by a number of officials from the City as well as the Indian...
View ArticleTrump and the Arts: ‘Evita,’ Huge Towers and a Snub for Warhol
Though he has been front-and-center in public life for more than four decades in the country’s cultural capital, Mr. Trump has left a meager trail to suggest what positions he might take on public arts...
View ArticleAnnual Global Nagpur Summit-2016 gets underway
The third edition of the Global Nagpur Summit was unveiled in Nagpur on Saturday, 19th November in the presence of many Nagpur industrialists, business persons and city planners.The inaugural day of...
View ArticleDesign Dispersed: Forms of Migration and Flight - LMU Munich, Germany, 9-10...
The 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 ArticleDeuxièmes Rencontres de l’AHA (Association d’histoire de l’architecture)
Paris, 23-24 Mar 17
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