Smart Cities Mission: Flaws in a flagship programme
The Smart Cities Mission not only prioritises parts of a city over the whole but also truncates the role of local city governments.
View ArticleEsempi di Architettura, vol. 3/2, 2016
The unusual story of Italian rationalism poses some questions if related to the orthodox formulations of European, and particularly German, rationalism. Those questions are about the uniqueness of that...
View ArticleBhupen Khakhar: Truth is Beauty
This event takes its name after the same exhibition and self-written catalogue, Truth Is Beauty and Beauty Is God. Bringing together three speakers who offer a unique insight into a specific period of...
View ArticleObamas choose New York architects to design Chicago library and museum
....Mayor Rahm Emanuel hailed the selection of both architectural firms, saying they had track records of creating innovative civic projects. He called the presidential center project a...
View ArticleWhat is a Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, anyway? The question George Lucas...
So to sum it up, this “Museum of Narrative Art” will be, apparently, a populist art museum with a strong concentration in showing movies.
View ArticleThe Long-Lost Study That Tried To Quantify Creative Personalities
In the 1950s, a group of scientists set out to study creativity. Their subjects? Great midcentury architects, from Kahn to Saarinen. Members
View ArticleJerusalem and Palestine in the midst of conflicting confessional and...
The Austrian Historical Institute in Rome and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on the 28th of September 2017 organize at the Austrian...
View ArticleTender for Pragati Maidan redevelopment faces objection
Divya Kush, president, IIA, said safeguarding our “heritage-in-the-making” was important.
View ArticleSafdie, Moriyama and Canada's big architectural dreams
Fifty years ago, a nation celebrating its centennial took major gambles on Raymond Moriyama and Moshe Safdie. It seems unimaginable today
View ArticleLucas, Obama and lessons for city-building
By sheer coincidence, Chicago's most high-profile cultural endeavors made front-page headlines in the past 10 days — the Lucas Museum for bolting to a still-to-be-named city in California, the Obama...
View ArticlePreserving Senegal’s ‘House of the Slaves’
Nelson has spent years researching and restoring sites related to the slave trade and studying slavery at UVA as part of the President’s Commission on Slavery and the University. In Senegal, his team...
View ArticlePlastic roads: India’s radical plan to bury its garbage beneath the streets
In India, roads made from shredded plastic are proving a popular solution to tackling waste and extreme weather
View ArticleArchitecture of the Future: Challenges and Visions
First Memaryat International Conference
View ArticleThe Glasgow effect: 'We die young here - but you just get on with it'
Glasgow's High Mortality Rate and a History of Poor Planning
View ArticleThe Lost Frescoes of Rajasthan
In the desert, painted onto once-great — and now, mostly abandoned — houses, is dazzling proof of the Indian state's opulent history.
View ArticleARCHITECTURE’S ODD COUPLE: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
Even as odd couples go, Wright and Johnson seem an unlikely choice for a dual biography. The two men interacted with so many cultural giants that Howard could have yoked each to any number of others —...
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s Latest Startup Offering Is a Whole City
Y Combinator's $100 million research lab will make affordable housing a focus.
View ArticleCall for Work Fabricate 2017
From computational design, to material performance and manipulation, to robotic fabrication, FABRICATE will promote the full spectrum of research and creative practice currently occurring within...
View ArticleImpressive designs for Amaravati monument
The two-member jury of noted architects roped into judge the designs for monument marking the Amaravati foundation stone laid by the Prime Minister on Saturday went through the designs presented by...
View ArticleThe House That Love Built — Before It Was Gone
For Monica Vitti, Eileen Gray and Frank Lloyd Wright, their homes were the culmination of passionate affairs. And the places they ended.
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