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View ArticleDeath to the Flâneur
This mythic figure is having a moment. But to adopt his point of view is to look for meaning around all the wrong corners.
View ArticleThe Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
The German Jewish writer Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), one of the most important philosophers and cultural critics of the twentieth century, began The Arcades Project in 1927 as a short piece about...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Laajverd Visiting School 2017
A two-week cross-curricular and interdiscplinary program based in a regional landscape. Open to mid-career researchers, academicians and profess
View ArticleA glimpse of futuristic capital Amaravati
The city would have public spaces like the Battersea Park and the Rajpath in New Delhi.
View ArticleMaximum Cities
Ajai Sreevatsan reviews Financing Cities in India: Municipal Reforms, Fiscal Accountability and Urban Infrastructure by Prasanna K. Mohanty
View ArticleArchitects Turning Entrepreneurs – Where is the Ecosystem?
Buckminster Fuller, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Segal, B.V Doshi, Anupama Kundoo are not just successful thinkers and architects but are institutions by themselves. Architectural marvels developed by them are...
View ArticlePakistan seeks protection for Jinnah House in Mumbai from India
Expressing concerns over the safety of Jinnah House, the erstwhile residence of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Mumbai, Pakistan has asked India to prote
View ArticleIn A Bullet-Riddled Mansion, A Beirut Architect Envisions A Museum Of Memory
....DAVID GREENE, HOST:Today the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon is relatively peaceful, though a civil war raged there in the '70s and '80s. Often Lebanese people don't like to talk about what...
View ArticleMoscow's big move: is this the biggest urban demolition project ever?
In the most extensive Russian resettlement project in half a century, a full 10% of Moscow’s housing is set to be torn down
View ArticleAnnouncing the CUP Fellowship for Change in Design!
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is announcing the CUP Fellowship for Change in Design, a new initiative to support the development of a pipeline of talented individuals from historically...
View ArticleHousing for all: Centre to build 1cr houses by 2019 under PMAY-G
According to the Press Information Bureau(PIB), 2.95 crore more houses need to be constructed with an anticipated variation of ± 10 per cent to achieve the objective by 2022. This estimate also...
View ArticleCentre to build 1 crore houses under PMAY-G by 2019
The Government today said that it has approved the construction of 1 crore houses with the financial implication of Rs. 81,975 crore for the period 2016-17 to 2018-19. The Minister of State for Rural...
View ArticleAn LA architect has recreated Kubrick's infamous "2001" bedroom scene
Although the LACMA exhibition a few years ago featuring props from Stanley Kubrick's films was, as cineastes say, "nifty," there's something even niftier on view at The 14th Factory: an elaborately...
View ArticleNo free gifts?
The new Grace Farms cultural centre in Connecticut raises uncomfortable questions about the role of corporate money in public projects
View ArticleNagaland likely to get School of Planning and Architecture soon
Parliamentary Secretary for Higher and Technical Education Nagaland, Deo Nukhu, has announced that Nagaland would soon get School of Planning & Architecture and Engineering College under Ministry...
View ArticleMangaluru: Confidence in approach essential in architecture - Prof Jaisim
Mangaluru, Apr 1: The Mangalore-Manipal Centre of the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) organised an evening with acclaimed architect and former chairman of the Indian Institute of Architects,...
View ArticleStory of Jinnah House where partition of India was discussed
The Jinnah House was designed by an English architect and constructed by masons especially brought from Italy.
View ArticleAfter architecture, HRD Ministry loses polytechnic too
While polytechnics are set up by the state governments, the Centre has been assisting them financially through four schemes.
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