History lives, unwatched, in these — Bidar homes - The Times of India
Bidar, a fort city situated on the Deccan Plateau in the northernmost reaches of Karnataka, has multiple layers of history built into its streets, walls and its very bricks. It's not just the...
View ArticleArchaeological team prepares 4, 000-year-old Hittite meals - Daily Sabah
The 4,000-year-old Hittite cuisine was cooked in Alacahöyük, an important Neolithic settlement and Turkey's first nationally excavated area. Aykut Çınaroğlu, the head of the excavations and professor...
View ArticleFACT SHEET: Administration Announces New “Smart Cities” Initiative to Help...
Today, the Administration is announcing a new “Smart Cities” Initiative that will invest over $160 million in federal research and leverage more than 25 new technology collaborations to help local...
View ArticleSmart city projects face hygiene hurdle
IT solutions and improving infrastructure may be the focus of government's Smart City and two other urban transformation schemes. But the real concern seems to be the poor state of "cleanliness" and...
View ArticleSmart cities: Funding to be a challenge for project, says study | The...
As per a report by Equirus Research, funding for these smart cities projects and its execution will be a major challenge for companies.“The mission is expected to improve the quality of life for...
View ArticleWebsite: Sue the Suberbs | City Housing Activists Test Out a Brazen New...
It's an urbanist's dream come true: The ability to sue a bedroom community for not building its fair share of housing. And a San Francisco renters group is threatening to make it happen.
View ArticleNYCHA selects Wyckoff Gardens, Holmes Towers for new development | POLITICO
Wyckoff Gardens in Brooklyn and Holmes Towers in Manhattan will be the first two sites chosen under a controversial proposal by the New York City Housing Authority to allow developers to build half...
View ArticleArchitectural photographer Wayne Thom’s beautiful images head to USC Libraries
The archive of Wayne Thom, a renowned architectural photographer who shot only with natural light, worked without assistants and meticulously printed his own images, is coming to USC Libraries.
View ArticleHow celebrity architects are transforming New York’s skyline
Until recently, Manhattan’s skyscrapers had been about the success of the city as a place of business. From the Woolworth to the World Trade Center, the skyline’s standout monuments were ciphers for...
View ArticleTalk Show: Celebrating Le Corbusier's Chandigarh 9-12th October 2015...
Le Corbusier, the world renowned urban planner and architect, prepared the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India and contributed specific designs for important buildings. This year-as a...
View ArticleCFP: Classica Americana: An American Experience (ACLA 2016, Abstracts Due...
In 2001, John C. Shields produced The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, provocatively demonstrating America’s debt to classical civilization and deeply advancing the discussion...
View ArticleUber’s New Wave of Urban Design. Are Cities Ready? — Mobility Lab
Uber, best known for its smartphone-based taxi service, is expanding rapidly with initiatives less about individual rides and more about mass mobility. So far, reactions to Uber’s plans for driverless...
View ArticleCFP: Playing with Worlds | Worlds of Play (Cologne, 11-12 Mar 16)
The conceptual understanding of worlds has become a very fruitful theoretical category for many disciplines. This concept, which could be traced back to the classic philosophical study of Nelson...
View ArticleCFP: Architectural Criticism (Rennes, 18 Jan 16)
Architectural Criticism: Part of Public Debate or Autonomous "Discipline"?- WorkshopThis call concerns the first of a series of three international workshops, which will take place in January 2016...
View ArticlePetition · I do not want to be taught by a fresher · Change.org
Architecture is such a field where, education is incomplete without a practical approach to it. And with the number of increase in colleges across the country, a lot of students across various colleges...
View ArticleThe Slow and Steady Death of the Delhi College of Art | The Wire
The students of the college are striking for the most basic of amenities, but what they also need is an open culture that allows for the exchange of ideas
View ArticleHow to Make Architecture Human | The New Republic
Witold Rybczynski’s project, it seems, is to turn this trend around by examining the built environments of everyday life, and encouraging his readers to follow in kind. The author of 19 books and...
View ArticleCFP: AABEA convention in Detroit next year | FE Youth Express | The financial...
The American Association of Bangladeshi Engineers and Architects (AABEA) Biennial Convention - 2016 organising committee invites papers from the graduate or undergraduate students studying engineering/...
View ArticleYCBA Graduate Symposium - A Beautiful Role: Architecture and the Display of...
The Yale Center for British Art—designed by Louis Kahn and completed in 1975—has recently undergone an extensive program of conservation. To mark the reopening of the building, and the complete...
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