Urban Chieftaincy: Exploring the roles of traditional authorities in the...
In the African context, research on traditional authorities has historically focused on cultural and political influence of these leaders as guardians of tribal customs and laws. Scholarly treatment of...
View ArticlePost-Internet Artists Crack Open Our Technological Past
PARIS — Curator Valentina Peri has made smart, cross-generational, idea-based choices when formulating her excellent group show Archéonauts, the best of the Paris season. Citing Michel Foucault’s...
View ArticleD.C.: Don't Give the Carnegie Library to Apple
Over the course of three decades, Andrew Carnegie helped introduce the American people to the notion of a public library. He built nearly 1,700 libraries across the country, most in small towns that...
View ArticleRe-configuring productive Megalopolis challenges and dynamics of a mining...
Reflecting on the challenges and dynamics of a contemporary mining territory, “Re-configuring productive Megalopolis” is an initiative with a series of events, aiming to mobilize the inhabitants and...
View ArticleIs Kalabharati the real reason why the Telangana govt wants the Dharna Chowk...
Soon after coming to power, the KCR government has been relentlessly trying to privatise public properties and inventing construction schemes. This pursuit has blinded it to public concerns about...
View ArticleIndia's Revolutionary Plan to Make All Its Cars Electric
Indian auto manufacturers and international oil exporters have been aflutter since India’s government announced plans to make all its cars electric by 2030. “By [that year], not a single petrol or...
View ArticleAlejandro Aravena's ELEMENTAL to design the 1 million sq.ft. Qatar Art Mill
“Art Mill will be an international exemplar where art connects across cultures and boundaries,” Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, jury chair and Qatar Museums chairperson, stated on...
View ArticleThe Aga Khan to receive the 2017 Architectural League President's Medal
The Architectural League of New York awarded their 2017 President's Medal to the honorable Aga Khan, the League revealed in an announcement today. The President's Medal is the League's highest accolade...
View ArticlePune falls back on heritage in ‘most liveable cities’ race
PUNE: Pune aspires to become one of the most liveable cities in India by leveraging its rich cultural and natural heritage, strong human capital and robust business environment. Of course, the city's...
View ArticleOnce a dry river, Sabarmati may now garner Rs 6,000 cr for hotels, malls
The banks of the Sabarmati, which flows through the city, will soon boast of a skyline of hotels, malls and corporate offices.A little over a decade ago, the Sabarmati was nothing but a parched...
View ArticleThe Political Problems of the Contemporary “Flâneur”
The character of the flâneur is central to the new exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, which refers to its multitude of 50-some international...
View ArticleArchitects: We’re “Appalled” by Brexit Rollout
A group of well-known British architects took to the pages of The Guardian Sunday to blast Brexit, the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, and their government’s purported discrimination...
View ArticleGoa urban development ministry to oversee RERA
PANAJI: The ministry of urban development has been given charge of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), including framing of rules and appointment of the regulatory authority and appellate...
View ArticleGhiberti teorico. Nature, art and historicity in the Quattrocento
In recent years the work of the sculptor and goldsmith Lorenzo Ghiberti, alongside questions regarding his workshop and its structures, have again received attention from art historians engaged with...
View ArticleAugmented Materials – A Hybrid Design Medium in Architectural Design
Imagine that materials have an ability to sense each manipulation, and send relative data to a processor to encode transformation algorithms and to execute digital 3D-models altering in real-time…
View ArticleLarge township projects to feel the heat under RERA
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 may impact the ability of developers to launch or complete large township projects spread across 100 acres or more. These will have to be...
View ArticleCRITICAL PRACTICE IN AN AGE OF COMPLEXITY
Context: Every generation of architects, urban designers, planners and artists engaged with the built environment face a set of seemingly intractable and isolated problems particular to their time. Mid...
View ArticleFurniture and the Domestic Interior
The Furniture History Society and The Frick Collection invite submissions from PhD students, post-doctorates, and emerging museum scholars for a symposium dedicated to the history of furniture and...
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 ArticleMughal-era structure ‘Khooni Bhandara’ aims to get UNESCO World Heritage tag
A unique underground water management structure of the Mughal era in Burhanpur district of Madhya Pradesh, known as the ‘Kundi Bhandara’ or ‘Khooni Bhandara,’ is eyeing the tag of UNESCO world heritage...
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