Interior Provocations - Interiors without Architecture
The second annual Pratt Interior Provocations symposium, Interiors without Architecture, seeks papers addressing the broad cultural, historical, and theoretical implications of interiors beyond their...
View ArticleLutyens and Baker: A Friendship That Faltered on Raisina Hill
Once Lutyens (1869-1944) won the contract for designing the new capital, Sir Thomas Holderness, the permanent secretary at the India office, persuaded him to share the commission with Baker...
View ArticleDelhi should be declared World Heritage City
The exquisite monuments such as the ones at Humayun’s Tomb, Qutub Minar complex, Tughlaqabad, Purana Qila—with archaeological evidence taking the site back to the antiquities of the time of...
View ArticleNew video shows construction progress on controversial Dubai Frame
Construction work on Dubai's latest gilded landmark appears to be making progress as the Dubai Municipality documented today in a new social media video of a city government delegation visiting the...
View ArticleSaving Sirius: why heritage protection should include social housing
Campaigners to save Sydney’s landmark Sirius building from demolition had a significant legal win this week.
View ArticleAre Our Cities Liveable? No, Thanks to Rising Slums
In Mumbai and Kolkata around 2000 migrant families move every week while Delhi gets its share with over one-and-a-half lakhs intake every year. In cities like Kanpur, Jabalpur and Visakhapatnam over 40...
View ArticleMillennials are ditching the cookie-cutter McMansion for the 'McModern'
In recent years, the McMansion has fallen out of fashion for a new type of home: the "McModern." Like the McMansion, the McModern is designed for the masses. But instead of borrowing from traditional...
View ArticleWhat Does the Architecture of Anime Look Like?
"To make a story convincing, the drawn and painted architecture has to support the world in the film," curator Stefan Riekeles tells Amy Frearson of Dezeen.
View ArticleAn Itinerant Museum Picks Apart the Language of Dehumanization
A museum located inside of a kunsthall folded into a larger biennial, Laura Gustafsson and Terike Haapoja’s project for Momentum 9 is a multilayered institutional critique.
View ArticleThe lost home of Jesus' apostles has just been found, archaeologists say
Archaeologists think they may have found the lost Roman city of Julias, the home of three apostles of Jesus: Peter, Andrew and Philip (John 1:44; 12:21). A multi-layered site discovered on the northern...
View ArticleThe deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for...
For centuries, archaeologists believed that ancient people couldn't live in tropical jungles. The environment was simply too harsh and challenging, they thought. As a result, scientists simply didn't...
View Article3 Winning Designs for Unplanned Cities Focus on the People Who Live in Them
Shelter Global’s annual Dencity Competition urges architects and planners to consider those neighborhoods, and attempts to “foster new ideas on how to handle the growing density of unplanned cities,”...
View ArticleUNESCO Worried Darjeeling Agitation May Damage Toy Train
The top conservation body UNESCO has cautioned that the damage caused to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway or DHR due to the protest to demand a separate Gorkhaland state may put in peril the World...
View ArticleSmart cities and lessons from India
In an effort to build collaboration related to India’s Smart Cities Mission, nine faculty members and researchers from the University of Toronto, a multidisciplinary group of urban experts from across...
View ArticleThe Enduring Delight of the Diorama
Only one of Daguerre’s dioramas remains today, but their influence was lasting, as a new exhibit at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris shows. Later interpreters of the diorama — a term that came to encompass...
View ArticleRetail Archaeology: Man documents the downfall of the American shopping mall
The death of the American mall is fascinating to many, just ask Erik Pierson."Some of my videos have close to 200,000 views. I think my channel total has one million," he said.Pierson was so interested...
View ArticleWhat New York Subway Stations Actually Look Like
Architect Candy Chan has felt “constantly lost” in New York. In Hong Kong, where she’s originally from, each exit is labeled with a letter and a number. And in the absence of such detailed signage in...
View ArticleFuturistic prefab homes of the ‘60s spotlighted in new exhibit
While prefab abodes and tiny homes are on a trendy upswing, a new exhibition in France shows how the concepts are far from new.
View ArticleCurtain call for heritage at city’s landmark theatre
Tagore Theatre is an oasis in Chandigarh in the field of varied forms of art. Being the only theatre in Chandigarh for a long time, it had become an important hub of cultural activities for the...
View Article2018 LASA Panel: Archaeological Encounters: Nation Building, International...
We are seeking additional panelists for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2018 congress (May 23-26, 2018 in Barcelona). If interested, please submit a 250-word abstract and paper title....
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