CFP: Materiality and Construction. Building site vocabulary (Rome, 21 - 22...
The terms used in the realization processes of architecture is often ambivalent in meaning, and can sometimes even be unintelligible. This vocabulary may not even belong to the “official” written...
View Article"Drawing Education: Worldwide!" (Muenchen, 28 - 29 Oct 16)
As a technique, drawing was a firmly entrenched feature of European culture and society from the Early Modern Period until the 20th century. In conjunction with writing, it was the central competence...
View ArticleCFP for CAA 2017: The Meteorological Impulse in Art: Modernity,...
Meteorology, the science of atmospheric conditions and phenomena—especially related to weather—emerged as an area of study in the seventeenth century. Weather reports have regularly appeared in...
View ArticleNew corporation to take up housing projects
All group-housing projects in the city under the Central government’s housing programme will be taken up under the proposed Township Infrastructure Corporation.The corporation is mooted to take up...
View ArticleFaced with space constraint, govt to build more public toilets in urban areas
The government has re-cast the fund allocated for Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) to focus on building more public toilets and urinals, two key areas that can put a check to open defecation, with no space...
View ArticleDying cities can be brought back to life and here’s how, says World Bank
“There is a need for massive financial resources that most cities can’t meet,” said Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, senior director for the World Bank’s Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global...
View ArticleThree states hold the key
Scared off by the popular backlash to family planning excesses during the Emergency, India’s political and social leadership abandoned the subject of population growth decades ago. The 10-year goals...
View ArticleFind PokéSpots at These Major Museums—Then Stay for the Art
Game maker Niantic Labs has planted innumerable "PokeStops," or little in-game treasure troves, near real-life landmarks in places where the game is played. Players can see these spots on their phone...
View ArticleRare vernacular furniture on display at Cept
Ahmedabad: After yearlong research on the indigenous vernacular furniture of North-West India, Cept University's Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) has discovered the provenance of the...
View Article'Brilliantly simple' ideas required
BT has launched its ninth Infinity Lab Competition, which aims to seek out the best innovative ideas for mobile network users. Mobile network provider EE will take part in the competition for the first...
View ArticleWhy the outwardly beautiful Chandigarh is actually among India’s dirtiest
Some of northern India’s prominent cities are among the dirtiest in the country and Chandigarh is among them, says a study by an NGO
View ArticleArchitecture of consumption: What's the future of the shopping mall?
Discover these controversial, innovative or failed architectural experiments, currently featured in an exhibition in Munich.
View ArticleNalanda University is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site!
UNESCO has declared Bihar's ancient Nalanda University as a World Heritage Site., PMO retweets UNESCO's Tweet
View ArticleCFP: EAHN Fifth International Meeting (Tallinn, 13-16 June 18)
European Architectural History Network (EAHN) is organising its fifth pan-European meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, from June 13–16, 2018. In accordance with its mission statement, the meeting aims to...
View ArticleFour new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement (Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, Switzerland)—Chosen from the work of Le Corbusier, the 17...
View ArticleEngineering colleges question AICTE data on closure of courses
In an article that appeared on July 15, Deccan Herald had quoted the AICTE data in relation to three colleges in the state and mentioned the courses that were closed in these colleges. The AICTE data...
View Article$, NGO: Architecture For Humanity Was "Wholesale Looting" Restricted...
The saga isn't over for the failed design nonprofit—in fact, for many of its former leaders, it's just beginning.
View ArticleAfter hiccups, Nalanda varsity ruins get UNESCO World Heritage tag
This is significant in view of objections UNESCO had raised over the 200-page dossier India submitted last year.
View Article'Acclaimed' architect Bijoy Jain talks about straddling tranquillity and trauma
For someone who views school as a place that offers a formal framework and architecture as a means of expression, learning is a lifelong endeavour. “School is for life. You don't have to go to school...
View ArticleWho are the middle class in India?
Even though being middle class in contemporary India is, in many ways, a matter of privilege, those located in the middle class tend to also view themselves as among those with a fragile sense of...
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