Smart Cities: After 2 years, only 6.3% of projects under implementation
Two years after launch of the ambitious Smart Cities project and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), the National Democratic Alliance government does not have much to...
View ArticleHRD asks architecture council to stay out of exam regulations
The Council of Architecture (CoA) may have to withdraw its proposal to make a single national entrance test mandatory for admission to all architecture institutions as the HRD Ministry has reportedly...
View ArticleCAA, 2018 Alternative Beginnings: Towards an-Other history of immersive arts...
Immersive technologies have a long history. As Oliver Grau puts it our current desire for immersive experiences did not make its first appearance with the invention of computer-aided virtual realities...
View ArticleExplained: How 'Collaborative Consumption' Has Reshaped Real Estate
Shared offices or co-working spaces have been proliferating since the 2000s. In co-working spaces, employees rent communal workstations, desks, or entire offices on a daily or monthly basis. In large...
View ArticleResurrecting Rome's River Tiber: Eleven's Rome 2017 Competition announces...
The Tiber river stretches 250 miles long and is the second longest river in Italy, flowing from the Apennines through Rome and into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Unfortunately today, the river's condition does...
View ArticleThe New Urban Gothic
We are seeking abstracts for chapters for an edited collection entitled: The New Urban Gothic. Urban Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction, Gothic crime fiction, and television whose narratives spring...
View ArticleUrban Affairs Association Call for Participation: 48th Annual Conference in...
Shaping Justice and Sustainability Within and Beyond the City’s Edge: Contestation and Collaboration in Urbanizing RegionsIn an era of globalizing forces, the region has become an important arena for...
View ArticleAmazon files patent for underwater warehouses
American e-commerce giant Amazon has filed a patent with the US patents office for a system for storing and retrieving goods in an underwater facility.When an item is ordered for delivery, a sonic...
View ArticleBro, Do You Even Quoin? A conversation with McMansion Hell's Kate Wagner
On this week's episode we’re joined with Kate Wagner, the author of McMansion Hell, a blog that balances serious essays on architecture and urbanism, with brilliantly funny analysis of the absurd...
View ArticleLouis Kahn’s Endangered Floating Concert Hall
Louis Kahn was commissioned to design Point Counterpoint II, a unique floating concert hall, by conductor Robert Austin Boudreau in the mid 1960s. Launched in 1976, the 195-foot structure carried an...
View ArticleStructural Substances: Suspended in Air
For Structural Substances: Suspended in Air—the latest in a series of digital fabrication studios taught by lecturers Lavender Tessmer and Jason Foster Butz—graduate architecture students digitally...
View ArticleStuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer gets a comprehensive rehab
Designed by modernist architect Edward Durell Stone in 1963, the museum documents the lives of European pioneers who first settled Nebraska. Recently, the museum underwent a comprehensive renovation...
View ArticleWalter Benjamin on How to Stop Worrying and Love Late Capitalism
In an attempt to save Benjamin from being eclipsed by the very cultural theories and media studies he pioneered, The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin at The Jewish Museum situates his...
View ArticlePortland | Fiction — Gary Garvin
"Portland" is a short story about an architect, and an odd one. While set in Portland, Boullée's Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton is visited, along with an elaborate tattoo. 11. Source: Archinect
View ArticleDeaths in sewers: 39 dead in 100 days while cleaning sewers: Bezwada Wilson
"Nobody takes responsibility for the deaths in sewers," sighed activist Bezwada Wilson on hearing of the deaths of four men while cleaning a tank in Vasant Kunj on Saturday.
View ArticlePetition · The Lt. Governor of Pondicherry: Save the Mairie: A Heritage Lost...
Letting the Pondicherry Authorities rebuild the Mairie in RCC would be a huge setback to the conservation work and to the remaining Traditional/Heritage government buildings across town. While...
View ArticleLiberation from militants leaves devastation in Mosul
Iraq's U.S.-backed forces wrested Mosul from the Islamic State group at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated with a crescendo of devastation — the blasting of the...
View ArticleWhy do some neighborhoods improve?
Four years ago, researchers at MIT’s Media Lab developed a computer vision system that can analyze street-level photos taken in urban neighborhoods in order to gauge how safe the neighborhoods would...
View ArticleComp Plan for Westeros? Same issues, more swordplay
Game of Thrones provides way more sex, blood, and dragons than your typical comprehensive planning project, but the dynamics can be instructive, particularly in places where demand for the high-quality...
View ArticleThe Barbican’s monolithic architecture is the perfect location for a sci-fi...
‘Into the Unknown: a Journey through Science Fiction’ is exactly what its title suggests—a genre-defining exploration of the multi-dimensional realms of science fiction.In an attempt to condense the...
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