This Is Your Brain on Architecture
The research led Goldhagen to science-based answers for previously metaphysical questions, such as: why do some places charm us and others leave us cold? Do we think and act differently depending on...
View ArticleLife in Basantapur
Kathmandu Durbar Square or Basantapur Durbar Chetra is located at the center of the city and is one of the three royal palaces (Durbar Square) in the Kathmandu valley. This area held the palaces of...
View ArticleIs it time to go beyond Le Corbusier?
To mark the first anniversary of the Capitol Complex being declared a Unesco World Heritage site, TOI begins a series to help create a new vision for the city.
View ArticleCentre Puts Varanasi Smart City Project On Fast track
Varanasi, constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set up to get a fresh makeover as the centre has instructed its machinery to speed up execution of all the urban development projects on time.
View ArticleAmaravati set to reach another milestone
Another milestone in the construction of Capital city Amaravati is in the offing with the State government deciding to commence works on the administrative city on Vijaya Dasami. Incidentally, the...
View ArticleWhy joint families are back in urban India
Recently released government data reveals that even as families are increasingly fragmenting in rural areas, more people in cities are choosing to live in extended families.Between 2001 and 2011, joint...
View ArticleCEPT gets new Dean of Faculty of Design
CEPT University appointed Anand Belhe as the new dean of the faculty of design discipline. Belhe, who has more than 30 years of experience, has been appointed dean for a 3-year term and will take...
View ArticleSOM wins competition to design a new master plan for the Colombo Port City in...
SOM has won (yet another) major commission: the master plan for Colombo Port City in Sri Lanka. Covering a 269 hectare site, the master plan is for a new city development that will extend the existing...
View ArticleThomas Heatherwick and others win ACADIA's 2017 Awards of Excellence
The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture has announced the recipients of the 2017 Awards for Excellence
View ArticleRoyal Mail celebrates “visionary” British architecture with new stamp series
Royal Mail has released a new set of special stamps featuring notable examples of contemporary architecture in the UK.The Landmark Buildings issue comprises a set of 10 stamps designed by London-based...
View ArticleSmithsonian’s ‘Art of the Airport Tower’ Captures their Unique Architectural...
Often under appreciated by the general public, a new traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum has captured the most unusual and fascinating designs of the world’s air traffic control...
View ArticleThe 23rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design...
The 23rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in AsiaRapidly evolving technologies are increasingly shaping our societies as well as our understanding of the...
View ArticleEighth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition DCC'18 or...
Design is a fundamentally important topic in disciplines ranging from the more commonly associated fields of engineering, information technology and architecture, to emerging areas in the social...
View ArticleFire ants perpetually rebuild sinking towers
With a recent study from Georgia Institute of Technology on how fire ants form towers, the architectural world has a new potential take away from nature. Done simply through trial-and-error, the fire...
View ArticleDensity, Energy and Metabolism of a proposed smart city
Hugh Byrd revisits an ambitious proposal by the Indian Government to build 100 "smart cities," with a case study provided by a development in Mumbai known as Bhendi Bazaar. The 40- to 60-story towers...
View ArticleModi Government proposes PPP model to boost affordable housing
The union government has proposed a Public- Private Partnership Policy under which affordable housing will be provided land in order to boost housing development. The Ministry of Housing and Urban...
View ArticleMaterial and Ceremonial Church Practices (Tallinn, 14-16 Sep 17)
Indifferent Things? Material and Ceremonial Church Practices in the 16th and 17th Centuries in the Baltic Sea RegionA conference in the series of the Homburger Gespräche...
View ArticleReconstructing Exhibitions
Reconstructing exhibitions is a research project that explores the recent curatorial practice of restaging seminal exhibitions from the past. Reesa Greenberg has argued that it constitutes a new genre,...
View ArticleSeminar | Architect: Achieving harmonious style implies drastic changes
He Jingtang, honorary Dean of School of Architecture of the South China University of Technology, gave a lecture last week on Design for Drastically Changing China, at Albergue SCM. ... The prominent...
View ArticleAnnual Conference of the Southeast Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians
The conference program of plenaries, papers, and tours is set against a backdrop of seasonal color in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and within a vibrant architectural landscape rising on...
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