Modi address a wake-up call for banks: Venkaiah Naidu
In conversation with BusinessLine, Naidu shared his thoughts on the Prime Minister’s New Year address, demonetisation, the challenges before his ministry and the way forward. Excerpts:The Prime...
View ArticleWork, Play and Protest: Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Structures,...
Think of the historic built environment and what comes to mind are churches, palaces and grand civic buildings: architecture defined by being enduring and monumental. Yet there were also less durable...
View ArticleShivaji warrior: India to spend $720 million on Taj Mahal-scale project
The statue will be five times higher than Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer at 38 metres, and will cost $US525 million ($726 million). The BJP is also building one for another of its favourite men,...
View ArticleObit: James Ackerman
The architectural historian James Ackerman has passed away. He died at the age of 97 on December 31, 2016. Ackerman was a prolific scholar of Italian Renaissance architects Michelangelo and Palladio as...
View ArticleNew collaboration explores the future of urban housing in Brazil
The School of Architecture and Planning and the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) at MIT have established a long-term initiative to rethink the future of affordable housing in...
View ArticleDeclare Panjim a Heritage site: IIA, activists
Amidst allegations that the Outline Development Plan (ODP) for Panjim has ignored heritage zones, the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) Goa Chapter has suggested that the heritage identity of the...
View ArticleReal Estate Czar gets doctorate for thesis on housing revolution in India
Visionary and real estate industry leader Niranjan Hiranandani has achieved another milestone in his professional life - his thesis on real estate has resulted in the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in...
View ArticleUrbanisation affecting genetic makeup of species: Study
The findings open new opportunities for advancing our understanding of the role of humans in Earth’s evolution, said lead author Marina Alberti from University of Washington.“By explicitly linking...
View ArticleMumbainama: Mr Owaisi, do not communalise Mumbai’s urban development issues
The forthcoming election to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ought to have been about the poor state of civic services in Mumbai and a road map for the city’s future. Instead, the two major...
View ArticlePanel (L02) Urban-to-rural migration and movement revisited in a context of...
7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS–7): Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urbanThe panel aims at identifying and discussing the features of urban-to-rural...
View ArticleGendering the Urban Imaginary: Fantasy, Affect, Transgression
The Gender, Translocality and the City Research Group at the University of Debrecen is pleased to announce its second annual conference, which is going to explore the role of gender, fantasy, and...
View ArticlePCB-AHA 2017, Seeing History: Traces and Representations of the Past
The PCB-AHA is the western branch of the American Historical Association. It serves members of the AHA living in the western United States (west of the Mississippi) and western Canada. It brings...
View ArticleArchitecture admissions will not consider Class 12 marks
Students preparing for the National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) 2017 were in for a surprise as the recently-released brochure for the exam states that it will not take Class 12 marks into...
View ArticleNEW ACADEMIC YEAR PROMISES CHANGES IN ADMISSION FOR 3 MAJOR COURSES
The new year promises to be a rough one for aspirants of various professional courses in the state as decision-making bodies in the state and at the Centre have several plans to change the existing...
View ArticleAncient city of Troy to be revived in new museum project
The construction of the museum aiming to revive the ancient city of Troy, next to its relics in the western province of Çanakkale, has entered its final stage.The museum is planned to cover a 10,000...
View ArticleNational Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) 2017 for admission into 1st...
National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) 2017 for admission into 1st year of 5-yr B.Arch. Degree course in the academic session 2017-18 at various Institutions in India shall be conducted by...
View Article‘Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design’ Review: An Alchemist of...
The show is an ambitious mix of materials and information with an installation by New York architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro—no slouches when it comes to innovation—that mobilizes the latest...
View ArticleArchaeologist defies sceptics in pursuit of lost city of Trellech
Stuart Wilson, an archaeology graduate who was working in a toll bridge booth, took a gamble and bought the field for £32,000 when he could have been investing in his first house.Over the past 15 years...
View ArticleUN conference Habitat III charts a difficult path for global urbanization
The UN conference Habitat III, which took place in Quito, Ecuador, from October 17–20, was a key moment in which the global community embraced the idea of urbanization as a positive agent of change in...
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