Retailing and Distribution in the Seventeenth Century
The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution Âinvites submissions for a conference that explores retailing and distribution in the seventeenth century.Papers focusing on any geographical...
View ArticleArchitecture and Society Series - March 15th - The Voice of Sketches: a Story...
The speaker will reflect on culture as seen through personalized forms of expression as against universal formulae that marked the dominant strains of modernism. Speaker: Verendra Wakhloo, architect...
View ArticleMaterial Histories of Time: Objects and Practices, 14th-18th centuries
La Chaux-de-Fonds, MusĂŠe international dâhorlogerie
View ArticleDRIVERLESS FUTURE: A challenge to shape the impact of autonomous transportation
The Driverless Future challenge seeks proposals that actively shape NYCâs response to driverless technology - will offer resources to help finalists transform their proposals into real companies and...
View ArticleConSpeak: âFunding heritage protection a benefit rather than a costâ (sic!)
Stressing the relevance of heritage conservation in an era of smart cities, experts from different domains on Saturday called for treating investments on protection of tangible and intangible heritage...
View ArticleNew body to manage Bodh Gaya heritage sites proposed
The Bodh Gaya Temple Management committee (BTMC), which manages the Mahabodhi temple, has sent a proposal to the Bihar government for constituting the authority, headed by the commisioner of Magadh...
View ArticleOdishaâs architecture in a hardcover
The 55-year-old laughs as he admits this. With the aim of depicting the architectural wonders of the state, also known as the Soul of India, he along with Dr Kajri Misra compiled the 201-page...
View ArticleIndia will soon have its own liveability index
Taking a leaf out of international practice of rating cities on liveability, India is all set to introduce its own liveability index.
View ArticleBuilding products expo in March
The Institute of Architects Pakistan (IAP) Rawalpindi / Islamabad Chapter has announced the largest Annual Building Products Exhibition & Architectsâ Convention in the region to be held in...
View ArticleSingha Durbar reconstruction: Retrofitting or reassembling
Nepal was not a British colony but this style of architecture entered into it right from the time of Bhimsen Thapa.
View ArticleIs the Bilbao effect over?
Frank Gehryâs building has been much praised, but how has the museum really changed the area and are there too many cities trying to copy?
View ArticleInterrogating the Indian Studio Era: Histories, Networks, Spaces
Guest Editor: Hrishikesh Ingle
View ArticleInvention of the Environment in Architecture
CCA Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Project: âArchitecture and/for the Environment,â 2017-2019
View ArticleDesign Museum Explores Unrealized Architecture of Moscow After the Russian...
What a century itâs been. It was 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution exploded, resulting in the Soviet Union declaring Moscow as the capital. âImagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda,...
View Article'Wanton vandalism': why Neville and Giggs' Manchester towers are despised
With its flawed design and lack of affordable housing, the footballersâ St Michaelâs project faces fierce opposition. But an investment-hungry c
View ArticleThe Future of Not Working
As automation reduces the need for human labor, some Silicon Valley executives think a universal income will be the answer.
View ArticleNew Model Could Help Cities Predict Gentrifying Neighborhoods
Run a Google search for âgentrificationâ and youâll get thousands of news items and scholarly articles on how urban revitalization risks pushing low-income communities out of cities. Despite all that...
View Article'A city's art biennial can be like watching an army of curatorial truffle pigs'
From Venice to Kathmandu, cities across the world are hopping on the urban bandwagon hosting exhibitions of contemporary art and architecture âŚ
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