Architecture and Society Series- How Scared Spaces are Formed in Cities A...
The 17th talk in Architecture and Society Series: How Sacred Spaces are Formed in Cities A talk illustrated by two examples, from Dongri in Mumbai and Nizamuddin in Delhi by Sarover Zaidi, a social...
View ArticleWhy build like Singapore?
The IIA NATCON-2016, hosted by the Indian Institute of Architects, Karnataka Chapter, started its deliberation on the future of Indian cities on the first day of the three-day conference in Bengaluru,...
View ArticlePhotography out of Bounds (Leicester, 19-20 Jun 17)
The consequences of the expansion of photographic practices around the globe are many and varied. Social interactions through and with analogue and digital photographs and the platforms across which...
View ArticleREG/AC Journal, issue: Non-Textual Utopias
The Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art is an indexed journal and an open access online publication, which aims to analyse visuality, contemporary artistic practices and cultural conflicts...
View ArticleChile’s Baha’i Temple born of Canadian architect’s 12-year project
Hariri’s vision might have followed suit. The budget for the project, about $30-million raised from Baha’i community donations, is not especially lavish. And yet, a dozen years later, the curves of the...
View ArticleTop 8 cities will need 4.2 million houses in 5 years: Report
Total demand for urban housing is estimated at 4.2 million units for the period of 2016-2020, across the top eight cities, according to a report. Existing under-construction and planned supply of 1.0...
View ArticleLaboratories are must for the Architecture Colleges: Rajan Nayak
Maintaining that colleges should become alaboratory for creative ideas, architect Biswa Ranjan Nayak,President, Council of Architecture, New Delhi, today said thatmodel-making laboratories are a must...
View ArticleMysore univ V-C in new row, has auditorium named after him
University of Mysore vice-chancellor Prof K S Rangappa has landed in yet another row. A swanky, 300-seater auditorium in the university’s newly built School of Planning and Architecture building has...
View ArticleBaker of brick symphonies _ remembering a green legacy
Any visitor to Kerala is sure to notice quaint brick red homes and dancing structures that swirl and twirl in and out of the surrounding greenery, so much so that they seem to be one with Nature....
View ArticleCID unearths 312 crore housing loan fraud
PUNE: A probe into Lokshahir Annabhau Sathe Vikas Mahamandal scam has revealed that office-bearers of the state-run organisation had siphoned off Rs 312 crore. Initially, the fraud amount was estimated...
View ArticleChallenges of urban sanitation
One of the major challenges for the Government is to elevate India to the international levels of urban sanitation that is found in developed countries. As a step towards this, India along with other...
View ArticleOriginal design of JS complex brought back in country
The copy of design of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) complex drawn by American architect Louis Isadore Kahn has been brought back to the country. The design has been brought back from the archive of University of...
View ArticleBangladesh receives Parliament building's original design by Louis I Kahn
The copy of the design arrived at Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport in 41 boxes on Thursday, Parliament Secretariat Additional Secretary AYM Golam Kibria told bdnews24.com."We got the designs in...
View ArticleHousehold Consumption and Environmental Change in the Twentieth Century
Consumption is a crucial dimension of present-day environmental debates. From meat to automobiles, from tourism to electronic gadgets, multiple dimensions of individual and group consumption are...
View ArticleMumbai will get its own Marina Bay
The architects who will design this eastern waterfront are the same who have designed Gujarat’s Sabarmati waterfront. HCP Design, Planning and Management Private Ltd, in partnership with...
View ArticleImagining an Indian city beyond the 'global city' tag
Architects, urban planners and experts from various fields from across the country are congregating at National Convention of the Indian Institute of Architects being held in Bengaluru to 'Imagine the...
View ArticleIndia's 700ft Hindu skyscraper will have a theme park and be world's tallest...
The Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, which is currently under construction at Vrindavan in the Uttar Pradesh region, will stand at 700 feet (210 metres) tall and will have 70 floors.The building, due for...
View ArticleIndian Institute of Architects: Celebrating 100 years of architecture in India
Celebrating 100 years of encouraging architecture in India, the Karnataka chapter of the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) is hosting the national convention 2016 with the theme, imagining the...
View Article‘British tarnished Lucknow’s architecture’: Llewellyn-Jones
European officers stationed in Lucknow under the British rule, writing about the city's architecture, were initially extremely critical of the city's mixed style of buildings. It was a trend that...
View ArticleMSA 2017 - Modernism Today (Amsterdam, 10-13 Aug 17)
Scholars of Modernism and the Avant-Garde in literature, art, film, drama, architecture, and other aspects of modern culture may be interested in this CFP for next year's Modernist Studies Association...
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