Documenting the Charismatic Streets of Post-War New York
Freshly discharged from the Navy after World War II, [Todd] Webb landed in New York, and his love of the city fueled his career as a full-time photographer. His images show the city in black and white...
View ArticlePradhan Mantri Awas Yojana will drive disbursements ahead: HUDCO
State owned Housing and Urban Development Corporation or HUDCO launched their Rs 1,200 crore initial public offering (IPO) on May 8, 2017. As of this morning, the IPO has been subscribed a total of...
View ArticleDMIC derails in Rajasthan, farmers too hit hard
Billed as the biggest industrial project in Rajasthan, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial corridor (DMIC) today is staring at an uncertain future in the state. Even after five years since the land acquisition...
View ArticleSpecific housing zones can curb risks of the sector
Speakers at a roundtable stressed that the government should create housing zones in the country like economic zones for the development sector.
View Article‘Korangi was designed to be at war with its residents’
Dr Ijlal Muzaffar is an Associate Professor of Modern Architectural History at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. He has a PhD in the History, Theory and Criticism of...
View ArticleWalking Manto’s Bombay
If there was ever a Bard of Bombay it was Manto, the subcontinent’s greatest writer of short stories. Earlier this year – the anniversary of Manto’s birth – the photographer Ram Rahman visited the...
View ArticleArchitecture and Wars: Forms of Destruction and Construction in War Zones
DAY 1Friday, 2 June 20178–8:30am: Welcome8:30-9am: Prelude, Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University9–9:30am: Opening Remarks: Architecture and Wars, Samia Henni, ETH...
View ArticleThousands rally in Moscow against plan to raze Soviet-era flats
Moscow, May 14 (AFP) Thousands of people protested in central Moscow today against the city’s plan to tear down Soviet-era apartment blocks as part of a controversial urban redevelopment programme.The...
View ArticleRepresentation: Process and Practice Across Design Disciplines (PPADD)
The evolution of representational methodologies in the visual arts as well as design education and practice has altered the means by which concepts are developed and presented. Advances in technology...
View ArticleMoscow Makeover Meets Citizen Resistance
After thousands of protesters took to Moscow streets Sunday to rally against a bill that would allow entire neighborhoods to be torn down, the local government seems to be slowing down its plan, ABC...
View ArticleThe chaise longue that became a porn star
There’s a supporting character in pornography that pops up as frequently as mediocre plastic surgery: the LC4 Chaise Longue, a 1928 design that has become a preferred porno perch since it was produced...
View ArticleAmie Siegel: Interiors at Frye Art Museum
The Frye Art Museum is pleased to present Amie Siegel: Interiors,12 an exhibition in which the artist considers objects and their perceived value, investigating undercurrents of power and desire active...
View ArticleWar and the Urban Context
[CFP]Scenes of Aleppo’s war-torn streets may be shocking to the world’s majority urban population, but such destruction would be familiar to urban dwellers as early as the third millennium BCE. While...
View ArticleVersailles in the valley
.... “Silicon Valley is having its Versailles moment,” says Louise Mozingo, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a fine book called “Pastoral Capitalism” about...
View ArticlePhotos of the Capitalistic Imagery that Overwhelms Beirut’s Landscape
Beirut’s ever-changing landscape is the subject of [Manal] Abu-Shaheen’s exhibition Beta World City, now on view at Lord Ludd. Through beautifully composed black-and-white photographs and sourced...
View ArticleHas Placemaking Become Cliché?
There’s very little that differentiates proposals by four distinguished planning and design firms to better connect my university to its immediate neighborhood and the wider city. Why is that, and does...
View ArticleThe Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture: an analogy for Pakistan
The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi is a singularity. It stands in the midst of Karachi, another singularity, both of them not just survivors, but vibrant survivors of...
View ArticleFirst International Conference in Architectural Communication 2017
Architecture is no longer just a product of design and construction but also a vehicle of a social action. Communication and mediation are key to this process. The role of architects has to do more...
View ArticleHow India Eats: The class structure of food consumption in India
To understand which class of society eats what, we turn to the NSSO survey on Household Consumption of Various Goods and Services in India 2011-12. The report separates per capita consumption into 12...
View ArticleThe Mall Isn't Dead, It's Just Changing
Today thousands of empty suburban malls dot the American landscape. Describing decaying buildings and cracked asphalt parking lots, eulogy after eulogy arrives at the same conclusion: The mall is...
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