Hypercat alliance for smart cities
According to British Consul General Nick McInnes, the launch this week of Hypercat Australia represented an Anglo-Australian collaboration in smart cities and IoT.Certainly Australia’s Assistant...
View ArticleIs Amdavad ready to be a mega city?
From being a smart city to going on to becoming a megacity by 2030, Ahmedabad seems to be on a fast track.
View ArticleBook Launch: The Architecture of Hasmukh C. Patel: Selected Projects 1963-2003
Catherine Desai and Bimal Patel, Mapin Publishing
View ArticleCFP: Picasso and Identity (Barcelona, 27-29 Apr 17)
In April 2017 the Museu Picasso and Fundació Palau. Centre d'Art will have the pleasure of hosting the 3rd International Congress Picasso. Thanks to the initiative of the Musée Picasso-Paris, since...
View Article6. Architekturtheoretisches Kolloquium (Einsiedeln, 20-23 Apr 2017)
Sixth Colloquium on Architectural Theory at the Werner Oechslin Library: Autodidacts, Workshops, Academies - Architectural Education 1400 -1850Before the establishment of the major schools of...
View ArticleCONF: Material Others and Other Materialities (London, 30 Sep 16)
In their short philosophical fable 'Vampyroteuthis Infernalis', Vilem Flusser and Louis Bec compare human existence to that of a deep-sea squid, the Vampyroteuthis Infernalis. In the process they raise...
View ArticleColor Printing and the Global Eighteenth Century (Philadelphia, 12-15 Oct 17)
Bibliography Among the Disciplines ConferenceThe long eighteenth century was a period of major breakthroughs in the domain of color printing in several parts of the world. In Asia and Europe, various...
View Article2016 – 2017 AKPIA Lecture Series, A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture at...
2016 – 2017 AKPIA Lecture SeriesThursday, October 6, 2016“The Nature of Almohad Architectural Ornament” / Jessica Streit, Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History, The College of Charleston
View Article‘Buildings today are deadening, negative, bland" Architect Christopher...
After having lived and worked in India for more than three decades, you are often addressed as an American-Indian architect. How do you want to be understood?I’d say as an Indian architect; my career...
View ArticleThe Royals of Architecture
The Architecture of Hasmukh C Patel: Selected Projects 1963-2003, published by Mapin Publishing
View ArticleDisappearing Bawa
A new book by David Robson and Sebastian Posingis reveals that Sri Lanka is in danger of losing a rich architectural heritage
View ArticleNow, tech colleges can offer other courses
PUNE: Engineering colleges and polytechnics can now offer courses like skill development, vocational studies and industrial training, falling within the ambit of the regulatory bodies other than All...
View ArticleOld cities worked and are still working: Lall
TOI: Why is providing affordable housing to all still a challenge after 70 years of independence?
View ArticleFrank Gehry Paves Paradise to Put Up Mega-Structures. What if Gehry's Not...
8150 has been appealed to the full City Council. The Laurel Canyon Association is opposed to the project, which will replace a Chase bank and a McDonalds at Laurel Cyn and Sunset Blvd, with a tower...
View ArticleThreat to Hampi tank! UNESCO seeks report on road project
The UNESCO letter, which has been marked to Ms Umashreee, minister of state for Kannada and culture, Mr Aravind Jadhav, chief secretary and the authorities concerned, says, “As you may be aware, States...
View ArticleCFP: Experiencing Prison (Lisbon, April 4, 2017 to April 6, 2017)
It is estimated there are currently around 9 million people in prisons across the globe. Statistics can tell us which countries or regions have the highest rates of incarceration. The numbers can tell...
View ArticleOld work made new: Pablo Bartholomew exhibits photographs transformed by an...
Seven years ago, Pablo Bartholomew reached for a box on the top shelf of his cupboard and recoiled in horror. The film inside was damp. The box contained 30-year-old slides, or reversal film, from an...
View ArticleHimachal government official says each smart city should have a CEO
While speaking at the second edition of 'National Summit on 100 Smart Cities 2016', Tarun Kapoor, Principal Secretary, Government of Himachal Pradesh, said "TheHimachal Pradeshgovernment is rolling out...
View ArticleImprove civic infrastructure or we won't pay tax, fumes Shahpura
BHOPAL: After facing the brunt of monsoon and now a tattered civic infrastructure, resident welfare association is contemplating not to pay civic body taxes.
View ArticleFor this architect, environment comes first
Architecture is so much more than mere structural design for senior architect Bruno Dias Souza. It is an experience.
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