No decision yet on Dalai Lama’s plea
GAYA: District magistrate (DM) Kumar Ravi on Friday forwarded Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama's request letter seeking permission to make an additional floor in the three-storey Tibetan monastery...
View ArticleArchitecture Adda #1: So, What About Modernism?
Modernism in the last month, appeared to us as a building, located in Pragati Maidan. The ‘Hall of nations’ built in 1972, was part of India’s national legacy, and its loss was read as the end of an...
View ArticleThe Urban Wanderer or Not
When you befriend a Gen Z on a social platform, including your own children, you may begin to get a glimpse of their ecosystem. You get to appreciate what they consume, engage with, and feel...
View ArticleBook excerpt: Maid in India by Tripti Lahiri
IN 2009, IN INDIA’S NORTHEAST, a woman agreed to send her oldest daughter to Delhi with a man full of promises. ‘Uncle’ was to take the girl far away from the machetes and the bows and arrows of the...
View ArticleHaryana Cabinet approves Gurugram Authority ordinance
The Haryana Cabinet on Thursday approved the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) Ordinance, paving the way for a continued, sustained and balanced development of the Gurugram...
View ArticleMexican archbishop cancels cathedral for not looking like a cathedral
Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barrón has now launched a new design competition, dealing another blow to the scheme’s original architect, disgraced Eugenio Velazquez, who was jailed in 2012 for smuggling...
View ArticlePaintings About the Intersection of Architecture and White Privilege
Is it precisely these spaces that Barnard is depicting — institutions of privilege. The emphasis in this series is to highlight the role of these spaces in the perpetuation of racial violence in the...
View ArticleThe Helicoide, the Venezuelan Icon That Became a Prison
The original idea was for a shopping mall with 320 stores. But the Helicoide would break the mold: Shoppers would drive, not walk, from store to store on double-helix ramps. The Helicoide would include...
View ArticleAs metro Atlanta grows, development creeps into existing subdivisions
The Atlanta metropolitan area is facing an estimated 2.5 million new residents by 2040. Some current residents are surprised at some of the neighborhoods accommodating that growth.11. Source: Planetizen
View ArticleThe Politics of Distribution: Migrant Labour, Development and Religious Aid...
Migrant labour has been viewed as an important factor in growth, productivity and poverty reduction in Asia where rapid economic development has raised many to middle income countries. However,...
View ArticleThis Housing Society In Gujarat Has Become A Hostel, Only For Cows!
In a society in Rajkot, Gujarat, members of a society have decided to convert an empty area of their society into a hostel for cows! Now, it might be a question of whether this place has become a form...
View ArticleThe Unfinished Task of Teaching History
Teaching history has always been tricky. I have been examining how history is taught in architecture programmes in Bangladeshi universities. Even though my focus has been on one particular discipline,...
View ArticleWall Street bank says a quarter of shopping malls will close in 5 years
Credit Suisse predicts that 2017 will see more store closings than any year in 2000s. "About 3,600 store closings have been announced this year. Credit Suisse estimates that about 8,640 stores will...
View ArticleMaterial Futures: Matter, Memory and Loss in Contemporary Art Production and...
Contemporary artistic practices have prompted a reconsideration of boundaries between the roles of artists and institutional staff, and between processes of art production, exhibition, and...
View ArticleHistory of Emotion Conference at George Mason University
The conference organizers are Susan Matt, Weber State University, and Peter Stearns, George Mason; the Conference is co-sponsored with the Society on the History of Emotion (SHE).The Conference seeks...
View ArticlePerformance and Performativity in Modern South Asia
This preconference approaches ‘performance’ as both a rich object of analysis and a theoretical framework for the study of South Asian culture and praxis. In so doing, it demands a dedicated engagement...
View ArticleTerra Digita: Digital Humanities Approaches to Medieval Mapping
The changing landscape of digital mapping technology continues to open up new frontiers for exploring, manipulating, and presenting medieval maps. From using multi-spectral imaging to resurrect faded...
View ArticleWhat Gujarat’s Been Getting Right For 75 Years And Whether There’s Hope For...
The history of street grids apparently dates back to Hippodamus in the fifth century B.C. The Grecian’s legacy is most visible in New York city, that some 2400 years later, in 1811, built a street...
View ArticleState to conserve Bhai Ram Singh’s architectural legacy
“He was a carpenter, a fixer of machines and instruments, an artist. Bhai Ram Singh was a man of many talents. But his legacy remains as the foremost and celebrated architect of pre-Partition Punjab,”...
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