• Perez’ Art Museum, Miami. Fl.

    Perez’ Art Museum, Miami. Fl.

    The architecture of the building reflects the marginal shift from the tightly control envelops to laissez faire envelope of tropical architecture. As one experiences the…

  • Understanding Urban Incongruity

    Understanding Urban Incongruity

    There is a need to derive a negotiating framework through understanding incongruity by recognizing the existence of complex spatial informal networks that have evolved over…

  • Cultural Resilience of Urban Form:

    Cultural Resilience of Urban Form:

    The thesis tries to establish the need to Retain, Repair, Reuse or Redevelop historic built forms by categorizing them into high-resilient and low-resilient zones to…

  • Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud

    Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud

    “Why so many architects pretend to be philosophers and don’t care how buildings look” Branko Mitrovic

  • Cropped and Uncropped Urbanism

    Cropped and Uncropped Urbanism

    The Salt Pans are counter place to its unbroken place, i:e city. The Salt Pans are mediated reality of urbanism, between man-made landscape and natural…

  • Cartesianism : Objective Domesticity

    Cartesianism : Objective Domesticity

    The significance of anthropocentric space, critical spirit, objectivity and secularization of thoughts are central to contemporary thinking and architectural production

  • Negotiating Housing: Aurangabad Studio

    Negotiating Housing: Aurangabad Studio

    When we discuss the housing in Indian context, one faces the complexity & multiplicity of issues that shapes the house and housing. Having said that,…

  • KRVIA ELECTIVE | POP CULTURE AND SEMIOTICS: Multi-Disciplinary Discourse

    KRVIA ELECTIVE | POP CULTURE AND SEMIOTICS: Multi-Disciplinary Discourse

    The postmodern is distinguished by the idea that there is not one but many truths and that the notions of truth are culturally and historically…

  • Resilience & Southern Urbanism |  Towards a New Paradigm

    Resilience & Southern Urbanism | Towards a New Paradigm

    Resilience as a construct has myriad connotations. This book attempts to understand resilience embedded in the particularities of the urbanisms in Indian cities. We take…

  • Crime and Urban Infrastructure

    Crime and Urban Infrastructure

    The research intends to investigate and discuss the relation between crime and urban infrastructure.

  • Making of Indian Modern

    Making of Indian Modern

    The name Mahendra Raj echoes the era of praxis that resonated largely the imminence of architectural engineering that dominated the post independence construction of modern…

  • Re-Integrating Derelict Waterways -A Case of Kollam Canal, Kerala

    Re-Integrating Derelict Waterways -A Case of Kollam Canal, Kerala

    Water and its management within ecosystems have always been the most crucial aspect of any settlement. Water flow has been modified and diverted to create…

  • Urban Coalescence: Employing the BGI model as a contemporary resolve for the socio-ecological concerns

    Urban Coalescence: Employing the BGI model as a contemporary resolve for the socio-ecological concerns

    A vivid reminder of how today’s world came to be the way it is, when industry employed entire communities and provided the heartbeat for many…

  • What is critical practice?

    What is critical practice?

    It often argued within the architecture fraternity about the role of critics or who is the architectural critic?, and very often such position that enacts…

  • New Geographies

    New Geographies

    The New Geographies studio will look into renewing older associations and making new ones, between the physical and the metaphorical, the human and the natural,…

  • Christopher Alexander

    Christopher Alexander

    There has been several attempts to theorize human aspect of urban form and primary literature by Christopher Alexander emphasizing elementarist approach to comprehensive urban experience,…

  • What will be has always been

    What will be has always been

    We all are born with sense of what to do. Within our singular limit we know instinctively that, given an opportunity to put the ideas…

  • High Key Architecture of Richard Rogers

    High Key Architecture of Richard Rogers

    The architecture of Richard Rogers is an advanced version of Miesian imagination. He celebrated architecture and filled the world of architecture with stunning and encapsulating…

  • Werkbund Housing: Vienna

    Werkbund Housing: Vienna

    The Werkbund housing in Vienna epitomizes the ethos of modernity at very early stage, along with fresh exploration in housing that not only sets the…

  • Research method in urban studies: principles and guidelines

    Research method in urban studies: principles and guidelines

    The blog attempts to articulate the research method, especially within the field of urban studies.

  • Anthology of Houses – PART V

    Anthology of Houses – PART V

    The blog attempted to bring about how architects in contemporary times has re-invented the house, program and its formal imagination. Architectural responses are primitive or…

  • India’s smart cities mission: light houses?

    India’s smart cities mission: light houses?

    Smart City in India, Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory?

  • ANTHOLOGY OF HOUSES – PART IV

    ANTHOLOGY OF HOUSES – PART IV

    The house and nature are given and modernity or modern means have to be dealt with. All the houses that are showed here are built…

  • journal of Urban Research and Development

    journal of Urban Research and Development

    Urban Morphology and Resilience

  • Anthology of Houses – Part III

    Anthology of Houses – Part III

    The part III we shall discuss the variations of modernist manifestos , bold tectonic operatives and complex formal architectural discourses that has influenced the academics…

  • Anthology of Houses – Part II

    Anthology of Houses – Part II

    The part II discusses the larger operative metaphor that has been experimented on houses and enable larger architectural discourses and influenced the academics and practices…

  • Anthology of  Houses – Part I

    Anthology of Houses – Part I

    Houses have always remained as theoretical excursions or playfield to reinvent architecture and set new cannons for contemporary paradigm in Architecture.

  • Cultural Quarters as Mechanisms for Urban Regeneration

    Cultural Quarters as Mechanisms for Urban Regeneration

    This blog reviews the concept of cultural quarters as an approach towards urban regeneration. This is a scholarly work of John Montgomery, who is an…

  • Mapping and Representing Informality

    Mapping and Representing Informality

    The case of Gazdhar Bandh is very unique, it has been informally built on no development zone and highly vulnerable situation of estuarine conditions. Originally…

  • Contemporary Perspective on Resilience:              Breucom + Krvia

    Contemporary Perspective on Resilience: Breucom + Krvia

    Increased frequency of natural hazards and sea level rise are expected impacts of climate change in India. Marginalized urban settlements are often vulnerable to disaster…

  • Reviving  the Historic Core Through Community Spaces:             A Case of Alwar

    Reviving the Historic Core Through Community Spaces: A Case of Alwar

    The research aims at examining the issues and challenges faced by the historic core and investigate and understand the reason why the local-community of historic…

  • Exploring everyday urbanism and “cultural territories” in the context of Mumbai

    Exploring everyday urbanism and “cultural territories” in the context of Mumbai

    This Research is a spatial exploration of everyday life within a ‘cultural territory’ to assess, design and create socio-culturally implicit spaces which are being hampered…

  • Learning and Theorizing Modernity

    Learning and Theorizing Modernity

    The 8 x 8 lecture series through video presentation is an attempt to articulate two aspects, primarily it articulates what is modernism and secondly it…

  • ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT: ENRIC MIRALLES

    ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT: ENRIC MIRALLES

    The Architecture of Scottish Parliament on first thought defies the question of identity, the explicit sense of belonging and collective iconography in contextual sense.