The Unstoppable Indians: Charles Correa
Distinguished architect and town planner Charles Correa on why Goa is special, the importance of listening to what a site has to say, when not to play tricks while designing, and building the Gandhi...
View ArticleA humongous tribute to pioneering Indian architect Achyut Kanvinde
He has a staggering 450-plus projects to his name over a career spanning 55 years -- ranging from the IIT-Kanpur campus to New Delhi's ISKCON Temple. He believed that the core of an architect's work...
View ArticleHôtel Le Corbusier Review, Marseille
Original features and incredibly reasonable rates will leave architecture enthusiasts thrilled to stay within Le Corbusier’s modernist Cité Radieuse, one of the 20th century’s most iconic buildings....
View ArticleArchaeologists dig up 17th century stone bridge in downtown Moscow
Archaeological experts have discovered the stone foundation and a brick arch of a 17th century white stone bridge at Slavyanskaya Square in downtown Moscow, where a water pipe is being repaired in line...
View ArticleA walking tour of 1767 New York
By the spring of 1767, Ratzer had completed enough of his survey to have a small map of Manhattan—roughly equivalent to the area depicted on the Montresor Plan—engraved, and it was offered for sale in...
View ArticleMelbourne Historical Journal, v. 45, 'Contested Spaces' (Postgraduate)
The Melbourne Historical Journal Collective is excited to invite contributions to Volume 45 (2017) of the Melbourne Historical Journal (MHJ). Published since 1961, the MHJ is a refereed journal for the...
View ArticleJournal of Architectural Education 71:2 'a/to project' (Deadline: August 1,...
“World of particular secret affinities: palm tree and feather duster, hairdryer and Venus de Milo, champagne bottles, prostheses, and letter-writing manuals”, Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project
View ArticleLog 41 and 42
Founded in 2003, Log is an independent journal on architecture and the contemporary city that presents criticism and commentary in a literary format designed to resist the seductive power of the image...
View ArticleDNS Conference--Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment, 13-15 December 2017
The Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is pleased to announce that the sixteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar, Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment, will be held in...
View ArticleCharles Correa, Architect, In Conversation
Indians' risk-taking capacity encourages young architects: Charles Correa. The noted Indian architect and urban planner talks about his famous creations and why India is losing out to the world despite...
View ArticleGRAPHIC IMPRINT. On the influence of the representation and ideation tools...
For the 2018 edition of the EGA Conference we propose a theme that intends to be open and attractive enough to entice the greatest participation in our area of aknowledge and, if possible, related...
View ArticleSataire: BAIT UR ROUF MOSQUE: AN AESTHETIC AND INCLUSIVE SPACE
In the increasingly dense neighbourhood of Faidabad, Uttara, a humble brick structure outshines the nearby tall apartment buildings. Bait Ur Rouf mosque on the outskirts of Dhaka city stands out as an...
View ArticleDon't miss Neil Denari's “Displaced Buildings in Aperiodic City” at the ‘T’...
Think you've seen all of Neil Denari's work? Eleven inkjet drawings featuring unbuilt visions by Denari's studio NMDA will be showcased in his “Displaced Buildings in Aperiodic City” exhibition,...
View ArticleNew database charts 20, 000 at-risk archaeological sites in the Middle East
Last month, an archaeological preservation project launched an online English and Arabic-language database to raise awareness and urge state officials in affected countries to take protective measures....
View ArticleWhy India Is Backing Away From Coal
As China slowly cut down on its own coal infrastructure, the International Energy Agency in 2015 projected India to be the next coal center in the near future. It stated that “half of the net increase...
View ArticleCentre-State meet to review progress of urban missions today
The progress of the new urban missions launched during the last three years in Chhattisgarh will be reviewed at a high-level meeting to be held here on Friday.Union Minister of Urban Development and...
View ArticleIs the Urban Renaissance Over?
Earlier this week, The New York Times published an op-ed from Jed Kolko—”Seattle Climbs but Austin Sprawls, The Myth of the Return to Cities”—offering up another iteration of his long running argument...
View ArticleTerritories of Faith - INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP - Leuven, 3 - 4 July 2017
The research group Architectural Cultures of the Recent Past (ARP) of KU Leuven and KADOC, the Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society of KU Leuven, are organizing an...
View ArticleGentrification and Cultural Heritage
Gentrification and Heritage Conservation | Fall 2018Guest Editors: Caroline Cheong and Kecia FongThe term gentrification is used to describe both a process and outcome of physical, socioeconomic, and...
View ArticleMost smart cities not smart enough, says govt study
Many of the top 20 cities that got selected last January under the government’s ambitious smart city project lag in basic infrastructure, governance and socio-economic indicators, a government study...
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