University of Mysore to offer urban planning course
Mysuru: With a growing demand for rural and urban planners to design towns, the University of Mysore which is celebrating its centennial, has decided to introduce bachelor and masters courses in...
View ArticleOccupy: Public Space and Graphic Satire
L’occupation de l’espace public par la satire graphique
View ArticleAli in Un/Expected Spaces
Muhammad Ali is frequently described as a transcendent figure in sport, politics, and culture. In scholarship as in popular representations, he has often been depicted as the most important cultural...
View Article[in-enaction] CFP: NEW DIRECTIONS IN FILM-ARCHITECTURE - 1-2 December 2016 -...
The relationship between the scholarly interrogation of cinema and architecture has an established history. This symposium seeks to do two things: first, to chart this history from both disciplinary...
View ArticleOld office of Telangana CM to be demolished
The design for the new Secretariat cannot be executed unless the G-Block, which lies in the middle, is demolished.
View ArticleUGC seeks to make urban planning a subject
Coimbatore: In an attempt to override the acute shortage of urban planners, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked all universities and colleges to introduce a course or a subject on urban...
View ArticleMarina Tabassum: An architect in search of roots
....“My focus was not to address the symbolic aspect but to concentrate on the spiritual ambiance and the act of praying. We come to a mosque to pray, to create a connection with the divine and that's...
View ArticleNalanda University might not be awarded as World Heritage Site. Here's why
ICOMOS has pointed out several "weaknesses" in the dossier on the arguments put forward for its identification as an outstanding "university."
View ArticlePR: A smart water grid for the Indus Basin
Architect and MIT Professor James Wescoat promotes institutional capacity building to manage a critical resource.
View ArticleStories of chowks, hosted by Ahmedabad Mapping Project
Come visit an exhibition of the stories of 35 chowks scattered throughout the pols of the city, put together by artists, architects, and urbanists from across india who have come together for a 5 day...
View ArticlePicturing Death 1200-1600
Proposals sought for chapters in a peer-reviewed edited volume
View ArticleInteriorities: artistic, conceptual and historical reassessments of the interior
Guest editor: Dr Vlad Ionescu (Faculty of Architecture and Art, Hasselt University, Belgium)
View ArticleThe Arab City
In a region at once feared and exoticized, we are witnessing for more than a generation the devastation of old centers and the rise of new ones.
View ArticleRIP: Bruce Goff's Bavinger House demolished
On April 28, Caleb Slinkard reported for the Norman Transcript that “all that is left of the Bavinger House is an empty clearing.” According to Slinkard, the demolition was confirmed by Bill Scott,...
View ArticleA grassroots, handmade Venice Architecture Biennale from Alejandro Aravena
Is Aravena's Venice Biennale merely an expression of PC-culture?
View ArticlePR: Emergence of Smart Cities and Advances in Automotive Lighting Predicted...
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio research analysts are forecasting positive growth for many segments of the global lighting market over the next four years as several related markets, including...
View Article“The Destruction of Memory” documentary explores the role of architecture in...
The Destruction of Memory will screen at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City on June 21st, and at the British Museum in London on June 26th.
View ArticleModernist Treasures From Iconic Four Seasons Restaurant Headed for Auction
Critics slam "painful" auction of items from Philip Johnson's The Four Seasons restaurant
View ArticleInside Masdar, the UAE’s Zero-Carbon City That Will Never Be
French photographer Etienne Malapert takes you inside this slowed utopia with City of Possibilities. His captivating images reveal rows of silicon solar panels soaking up sunlight, futuristic towers...
View Article1000-year-old Hindu temple excavated in Dinajpur
Archaeologists from Jahangirnagar University’s department of archaeology in Savar, Dhaka, including its director Prof. Swadhin Sen, Prof. Syed Mohammed Kamrul Ahsan, Prof. Seema Hoque and Sabekunnaher...
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