Author: betweenarchitectureandurbanism
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Discussion on Smart City in India, Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory.
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Theorizing Southern Cities
Though the forces of globalization, advanced capitalism and new modes of governance have subjected cities quite uniformly, the responses to these forces play out quite differently in varied empirical contexts.
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Integrating Design and Planning for Informal Settlement in Mumbai
EBQL CONFERENCE | CAIRO, EGYPT | 2018
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Synchromeshed Urbanism
ENTREPRENEURIAL | CHINESE HON KONG UNIVERSITY | INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF URBANISM CONFERENCE | 2018
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Book Launch at Allaince Francaise, Mumbai
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Presentation of “Smart City in India” Book Publication at Itc, University of Twente, Netherlands
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Discussion on “Urban Research” at Itc, Enschede, Netherlands
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Presentation At Kalaghoda Art Festival, 2020
SMART CITY IN INDIA, URBAN LABORATORY, PARADIGM OR TRAJECTORY?
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Presentation at IUDI, Pvpcoa, Pune
SMART CITY IN INDIA, URBAN LABORATORY, PARADIGM OR TRAJECTORY?
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Presentation of “Smart City in India” book publication at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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Theorizing Urban
LECTURE SUMMARY URBAN QUESTIONS • •Academic intent through the city as laboratory. •Social phenomena and social reality •City as regional question •Complexity and irreducibility as challenging •Ecological concerns •Global Perspective INSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS •Division of knowledge is a hint to possible need of cooperation •Local Knowledge produced in political and administrative context •Interface between aims of…
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Resilience Paradigm and Southern Urbanism
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Urban Form and Smart Urbanism
BOOK- SMART CITY IN INDIA, Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory Published by Routledge, UK, 2019 | Authors: Dr. Binti Singh | Manoj Parmar
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City Renewal and Urban Restructuring
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Smart City in India, Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory at University of Twente, Netherlands
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Smart City in India, Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory at University of Starthclyde, Glasgow
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Smart City in India, Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory at Kalaghoda Art Festival
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Is There Anything as “Architecture of Identity”?
For a long time the issues of identity have been coming up in several conversations, and perhaps also the questions raised often on account of making “identity” as an architectural question. In taking such a position arguably there are two fundamental questions that comes up, the first being, is the question of identity only related…
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KRVIA MASTERS THESIS 2020
“The essence of Urbanity is that the different people can act together without the compulsion to be the same” Richard Sennett The thesis is an attempt to examine the relations among diverse processes and spatial forms that are constantly affecting & shaping our lives. In this context the urban research work allows a wider discussion and…
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SHADOW-LESS CITY
Photo Credit: Manoj Parmar Architects Architecture and cities have metaphysical presence in us. We experience them differently depending on the state of worldliness that we inhabit, willingly or unwillingly. As a result of the recent global pandemic and the subsequent lockdown, architecture and the city appears to be a dream sequence of inconsequential collapsed time. The…
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MODERN HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY INDIA
In a country like India, the paradigm of development takes place in various forms, with entangled complexity and enmeshed priorities. The emphasis on development always supersedes considerations of historical aspects. The peculiarities of geography and the very act of conservation of historical events, acts, narratives and artifacts are often thought of as an academia and not…
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ARCHITECTURE AND NIHILISM: MASSIMO CACCIARI
The author attempts to establish relationship between philosophy and modern architecture, critically examining the avant-garde endeavors to the social and political manifestation of metropolitan set up. It is an outstanding theoretical plunge into scholastic and polemics of most complex debate on aesthetic-philosophical nature of architectural theory. The author has audaciously challenged the metaphorical thread between architecture…
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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.
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CULTURE FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION
Culture is the key to our cities and it makes cities more livable, responsive and adaptable. History of urbanization demonstrates that culture is also a key to several urban trans-formative processes, enabling the formation of key civic architectural precincts, monuments, heritage, traditions and largely vibrant public realm. The public realm of the cities breaths through the social…
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ENTREPRENEURIAL URBANISM
“Cities often manifest, distilled and condensed activities experienced in sudden jerks and revelation. Such phenomenon often remains incomprehensible at large, especially for the academic purpose. The formal and informal market streets across the city of Mumbai are examples of such phenomenon characterized by sudden splurge of activities juxtaposed in sharp contrast to its surrounding context.…
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UNDERSTANDING RESILIENCE: WATER RESOURCES & HISTORIC CITIES OF INDIA
Water bodies are physically and spiritually an integral part of several historic cities of India. The presence of water bodies within the cities, not only added a symbolic value but also addressed the water needs of the city. The water as an urban system in context of supply and waste water are beyond the engineering domain and…
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REFLECTIVE TEXT & ARCHITECTURAL PARADIGM
The history of built architecture has produced tremendous amount of knowledge, validating and criticizing their existence, however the need to push such knowledge within the multi-discipline terrain for understanding and locating inter-relationship is equally important and valid one. Architectural theory has representational and didactic responsibility especially when the contemporary architecture is being subjected to cultural…
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METAPHORS AND MODERNITY: HOUSES
Houses have always remained as theoretical excursions medium to set new cannons for contemporary Architecture. The house has been re-invented number of times as one scan through the history of architecture. The act of re-invention of the house is perhaps a method of deactivating the dogmatic conditions with fresher metaphor towards contemporary life. The imagination…
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Composition of Urban Theory
The article attempts to delineate the main ideas and methods of urban theories, that have influenced urban research, academics and practice.
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REPRESENTING MEASURE DRAWINGS
The act of making drawings is central to architectural thinking. If one looks back into the renaissance history, the invention of perspective has a tremendous impact on the conceptualization of anthropocentric architecture. The renaissance painter also produced the art form that resonated with the spirit of the time. The drawings are an interface between imagined…
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KRVIA Masters + BreUCom (Erasmus+ program) | Urban Resilience
Quality of life is an idea that is often being discussed in various studies as a response to many issues and complexities that have recently emerged within our cities in the process of transformation. Along with that, the quality of life is also connected with the question of vulnerability and resilience. The city of Mumbai,…
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KRVIA MASTERS THESIS 2019 – PEDAGOGIC TRAJECTORIES
The masters thesis is about examination of either coordinated or unexplored coordinates of relation among various processes and spatial forms that are reproduced but not coherently articulated in urbanity at large. The political mobilization, economic transformation, ecological vulnerabilities, historic core and socio-cultural formation are some of the area of investigation as they are central to the…
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FORM BASED CODES: HOUSING THESIS 2019
As Amos Rappoport (1969) suggested, ” if provision of shelter is the passive function of the house, then its positive purpose is the creation of an environment best suited to the way of life of people as social unit of space” It brings about the fundamental questions on what finally decides the form of dwelling…
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PURIST TECHNOCRAT: I.M PEI
Kenneth Framton, in his book on “A Critical History, Modern Architecture”, in chapter 4 (Place, Production & Scenography, International Theory and Practice since 1962) ,he discussed the imaginative interpretation of Fuller’s project on geodesic domes, Kikutake Marine City, Isozaki Gunma Perfectual Meuseum, Rogers & Pianos Pompidu Center & Fosters Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Within…
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SMALL CHANGE: COMMUNITY & ADAPTABILITY
This blog attempts to raise some of the fundamental questions related to adaptability, formal & informal, communities, individual and collective, while encountering everyday risk, coping capacity and way to reduce vulnerability. Very often the definition of communities in our cities are relegated through compartmentalized geographical/ policy version, namely, SRA housing, slum, suburban housing, urban community…
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SMART CITY MISSION: New Urban Paradigm of Imagination or Perception
The recent time has seen the shift in urban planning concerns of our cities, especially second tier cities. The emerging paradigm of SCM is aspired to be moving towards formation of reactive, reflective and knowledge-oriented society. The SCM is expected to move from functional, hierarchical formation of our cities to networked form. The stated goal of…
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ACADEMICS OF TECHNOLOGY
ACADEMICS OF TECHNOLOGY: The word “academics” and “technology”, if independently dissected through epistemological perspective, perhaps the manifestation that emerges out could be compartmentalized and self-contained, however the academics of technology together as a singular entity allows to resonates paradigmatic shift from the technology as means to technology as a way, it allows to bring about…
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ARCHITECTURAL THINKING
There are some simple terms that we often use to frame the pedagogy for architectural education. The simple terms are sometimes confused with many other terms. The elaborative work on architectural theory across the time have propagated some of the larger concerns emanating from some simple ideas and words. The thought and trouble with such…
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ARATA ISOZAKI
“The aim of the latter-day Avant garde is either to validate itself through media or alternatively, to redeem its guilt by executing the rite of creative exorcism in isolation.” Manfredo Taffuri The Japanese architect Arata Isozaki’s work could best be explained in terms of theoretical in-between conditions or ambivalent in nature that most of the…
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ARCHITECTURE OF SPA (VIJAYAWADA) BUILDING
The building of institutional architecture has long been obsession of state since independence and the legacy continues till date. Since then we have witnessed the architecture that are abstemiously struggling to bring about pan-Indian architecture of earlier phase to contemporary global architecture in recent times. The architecture that oscillated from decadence of Indian architectural wisdom…
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LUCKNOW: CULTURE, PLACE, BRANDING & ACTIVITISM
The recently published book titled “Lucknow: Culture, Place, Branding & Activitism” is a scholastic urban research work on contemporary urban transformation of Indian Second Tier cities. This especially brings about the urban discourse on second tier city subject whose genesis are embedded into the historic layers and are currently witnessing the rapid transformation. It builds…
