Author: betweenarchitectureandurbanism
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Global Cities
One of the central themes in Sassen’s analysis is the intersection of global economic forces with local conditions. She posits that global cities function as command posts for the global economy, facilitating the flow of capital, information, and labor.
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Complexsouth
Urban areas are labyrinthine ecosystems that manifest intricate patterns of human behavior, social interactions, and environmental factors. These complexities are not static; they evolve through time dynamics and system transformations, which are driven by various forces, including technological advancements and changing societal needs. To understand and navigate this dynamic urban complexity, we must employ engagement…
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Frank Gehry
The architectural world will always remain indebted to his work for his willingness to disrupt the comfort of established orthodoxy, compelling the discipline to continually rethink what a building can be and how it can be experienced.
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Two Buildings by Antoine Predock: Phoenix
Antoine Predock’s architecture occupies a distinct and influential position in contemporary American design, defined by its powerful engagement with landscape, movement, and cultural memory. His work consistently resists conventional formalism, instead emerging from an intimate reading of place—its geology, climate, and mythologies.
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Composition of Architectural Theory
The intersection of architectural theory with respect to cultural studies and cultural theory has become increasingly important in the discourse surrounding contemporary architecture.
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Baroque Materialism in Hudson Yards
The Vessel project, although celebrated by its greatness and scale, reflects a disconcerting reality: the prioritization of the show on the substance, a distinctive seal of baroque thinking and contemporary capitalist culture.
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Cities Rethought
The book attempts to challenge pre-conceived notions of “what we know” and critically reflect on the very idea of “the urban.”
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Integrating Urban Circularity into Foodscapes
The thesis, titled “Integrating Urban Circularity into Foodscapes: An Approach towards Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development,” addresses the urgent need to transition from linear food systems to circular models that foster regenerative urban environments.
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Leon Krier
Leon Krier’s rigorous, thoughtful ideas and argument have left a significant mark on contemporary urbanism, advocating for a holistic approach focused on meeting the urgent needs of our time.
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Infrastructure as an Ecosystem
This research challenges the traditional, technocratic view of infrastructure, typically treated as disconnected systems like transportation, utilities, and buildings, evaluated purely through metrics of efficiency and productivity. Such fragmented approaches fail to acknowledge the intricate, socially embedded realities that make urban life meaningful.
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Vadodara Central Library: Edwin Lutyens
The library is a poignant representation of the role of architecture in the formation of social values and promotes community identity in a world of rapid change
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Bridging Urban and Natural realms
Case of National Park boundary in Thane City Keywords: Transitional Zones, Sustainable Development, Ecological Sensitive zone, Form Based Codes, forest Indigenous Communities In the context of rapid urbanization and growing environmental pressures, transitional zones between forests and cities offer important opportunities for sustainable development. These areas, where natural ecosystems and built environments meet, are critical…
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The Architectural Significance of Marcel Breuer’s Becton Engineering Building
Two buildings primarily dotting up the Yale University Campus architecture at New Haven. The Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture building and Marcel Breuer’s Becton engineering building. Both are the finest example of brutalist phase of modern architecture
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Ordinary Cities
Jenifer Robinson’s perspective about development in ordinary cities offers a critical lens through which to explore the nuances of urban growth, social equity and local identity within various global contexts.
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Architectural Nemesis: The Clash of trends and the Evolution of Identity
The concept of architectural nemesis offers a convincing lens through which to examine the interaction between conflicting styles and philosophies within architectural discourse and its manifestation.
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The Crisis of Architectural Education in India – V
Architectural institutions have long operated within pre-assumed frameworks of technology, often reinforcing regimented boundaries rather than critically examining their embedded conditions.
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The Crisis of Architectural Education in India – IV
The architectural theory reflects a dynamic interaction between aesthetic ideals and socio-political contexts, shaping the built environment.
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The Crisis of Architectural Education in India – III
The architectural studio, a cornerstone of design education in India, faces multifaceted challenges that hinder its ability to produce architects equipped for contemporary realities
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The Crisis of Architectural Education in India – II
This is a critical observation that highlights the stagnation in architectural academia, especially in institutions where knowledge production does not evolve with contemporary discourses. The absence of updated ways of thinking about architecture and the built environment, combined with a disconnect from global trends, results in a lack of self-evaluation and critical discourse within institutions
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The Crisis of Architectural Education in India – I
Architectural education in India faces several critical challenges, many of which stem from a combination of outdated pedagogical models, regulatory constraints, and the rapidly changing demands of the profession
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Arrival City: Kozhikode
The city of Kozhikode (Calicut) has history dated back to 7th century with subsequent arrival of traders from various part of the world. The city has rich mix of people with diverse religions group and wealth of eclectic architectural heritage.
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Memorials: Architecture of Redundance
We are witnessing the era of architectural experimentation in the process of progressive generalized abstraction not allowing the sensory experience to assimilate the relationship of concrete to abstract or vice versa
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Cultural Territories: Case of Nashik
Cultural Territories are tangible and intangible forces that underpin historic networked conditions and forms valuable relationship along with diverse historic & contemporary circumstances.
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Urban Resilience in Coastal Cities: Urban Form X People X Ecology
The study employs a systems approach to uncover the inter-dimensional relations between urban form, people, and the ecology.
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Architectural Theory and Climate Change
The article uses reflexivity as a research method to investigate and propose an architectural theory plan for climate change
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Reflexion | Critical Reflexion | Reflexivity for Architectural Theory
How do we build Architectural Theory? How Architectural Theory is shaped by region and context from global perspective. This question raises some fundamental un-easy-ness in architectural idiom.
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Paradox of Architectural Theory
If one attempts to scan the genesis of architectural theory and its set of influencing forces, one is tempted to question the methodological challenges that architectural theory has to adapt.
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Collage city:
The book attempts to build the argument that the modern planning paradigm has dis-integrated the cities and there is a need for pluralistic imagination in urban planning. The argument is built around three large themes.
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Ahmedabad: Good City Form.
There are several historical cities in India that are living cities, keeping customs and rituals in tandem with new means and ways of re-purposing its architectural heritage and urban form.
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Historic Cities | Imagining Past as Future: A Case of Ahmednagar
The thesis intends to understand the extent and interrelation of the historic layers expressed through historic buildings and monuments with their extended environment and urban form by analyzing the role and status of Heritage
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Research Seminar at Northumbria University, New Castle, UK
The seminar course at Northumbria University (Department of Architecture and Built Environment) intended to expose the researcher to the global perspective on trends of urbanization in India and discussion on resilience.
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University of Nottingham: Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft Cities
It expand the scholarship to include many cases from both North and South of the hemisphere to understand how resilience is negotiated between Hard and Soft cities every day. The rationale is to develop a narrative around “Just” resilience.
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Battersea Power station Redevelopment, London
The Battersea Power Station redevelopment project has introduced the mix used approach to revive the iconic building originally designed by British architect Giles Gilbert Scott (who designed iconic telephone booth) along with the surrounding areas.
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Situating Practice in India
This YouTube video is a part of lecture organized by University of Florida for their course titled “Integrated Path to Architecture Licensure (IPAL-4 )” Video Credit: University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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Architectural Thinking in a Time of Climate Emergency
The article uses reflexivity as a research method to investigate and propose an architectural theory plan for climate change.
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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 building, it deflects the thought into where is envelop and where are the spaces.
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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 time.
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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 avoid the homogeneity of urban form in the historic native town of Mumbai.
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Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud
“Why so many architects pretend to be philosophers and don’t care how buildings look” Branko Mitrovic
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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 appendage to the city.
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Cartesianism : Objective Domesticity
The significance of anthropocentric space, critical spirit, objectivity and secularization of thoughts are central to contemporary thinking and architectural production
