Author: betweenarchitectureandurbanism
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LONDON: ARCHITECTURE OF FIERCE EPISODE
London has not much changed from imperial point of view of the city, rather it has changed from left over city point of view. It has few blocks modified randomly and few are added too much of the desire to retain old character. The cacophony of resultant architecture of old fabric is a not far…
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ARCHITECTURE AND KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE
SOURCE: ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM-2015FACULTY: MANOJ PARMAR- KRVIA
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THE CATCHING SKY
ENMESHED I The post independence years saw rise in state identity crisis and perhaps architecture found its new wisdom in seeking such political identity of independent state. The advent of various architects, studied and trained abroad helped in strengthening the wants of identity. The architecture envisioned itself to be responsible for nation identity as whole,…
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BATESARA: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
The site is approximately 30 minutes drive from city center and has approachable road. The excavation site is on hill, sloping towards west, hence the sun casts deep shadows and illuminating the temple complex almost through out the day.
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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE BUILDING: BARODA
The School of Architecture building at M.S. University, Baroda is more than 100 year old building. The main component of construction is brick load bearing, stone lintels/ ties & wooden boarding on wooden section as floor. The architectural style seems mixed of colonial typology, Gothic arches, Mogul domes/ entrance, central large courtyard with corridor around.…
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RE-READING MANFREDO TAFURI: ARCHITECTURE AND UTOPIA
READING “ARCHITECTURE AND UTOPIA” MANFREDO TAFURI VIII: Preface The relationship between the historical avant-garde movements and the metropolis, the relationships between intellectual work and capitalist development, research on sociology and planning practices, on social-democrat administration of the city , on architecture of America cities and on building cycle, have been the object of collaborative program…
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KRVIA MASTER’S THESIS – 2015
The graduating seventh batch thesis defense oscillated through various thoughts on urbanism. The range and responses are becoming wider and far open ended than predecessor. The idea of conservation is challenged with its limited framework and attempting it to be far more democratic in value appreciation. The queries were raised if conservation value system needs…
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CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATION
A lot has been said on conservation especially world has turned this discipline into a fashionable and niche-able commodity of past. This is perhaps true in urban forms of traditional Indian Cities. The traditional urban architecture and its conservation broadly divided into three broad categories: Ideology of Conservation, Practice of Conservation and Technology that need to be employed. Architecture…
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KRVIA MASTERS: STUDIO II: URBAN DESIGN/ URBAN CONSERVATION.
STUDIO II The pre-industrial cities are rapidly transforming itself into a large urban agglomeration. This cities are often developed without direction or development guidelines. This kind of haphazard transformation is rapidly seen in most of cities across India. These cities are characteristically evolved with humane scale, contextualized typologies, walk-abilities, compactness and appropriate living and working relationships. These cities…
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CLUSTER MEETING AT SWITZERLAND (BASEL + LAUSANNE)
THE LABORATORY APPROACH TO BUILT ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION. (ABSTRACT FROM SYMPOSIUM MEETING HELD AT TU-BERLIN) The project URBAN LAB+ is an initiation to set the interactive platform for various educational institutes who are involved in higher education in urban studies. The URBAN LAB+ is involved eight partners with TU BERLIN (Technische Universitat, Berlin, Germany) as host…
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ARCHITECTURE OF BRANDS
When question is raised on ideological rooting within the moral stamp & canonical paramount of architecture, the resultant cultural manifestation, very often remains aloof and outside the discourse on architectural criticism and its responsibilities. It can take various forms and finds its treacherous escape from its representational responsibilities. The most didactic forms of cultural manifestation becomes most material & subservient expression of product. Architecture oscillates between…
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MINIMUM (RITUAL) CITY
The city arrives through stark landscape of mountain range from distance and large reservoir. The stark landscape of rock formation makes city fabric far more humble and humane. The entire city is walk-able and it maintains its minimum infrastructure. The formation of bazaar within its main spine is distinguishable form many other similar ritual cities. The recent development of new, generic building types &…
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OBJECTIVE DOMESTICITY
CARTESIANISM: OBJECTIVE DOMESTICITY Intellectual revolution and theoretical objectivity in contemporary architecture. “Historical & Comparative” The French philosopher Rene Descartes contributed to the doctrine and principle of historical objectivity compounding to the theoretical foundation of “Cartesianism” through his treatise “Discourse of Method”. It began to emphasize…
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LOGARITHM OF EXPONENTIAL HISTORY
KRVIA / KRMLS – 2013 ARCHITECTURE AS CONTEMPORARY HISTORY ] SHADOW OF HISTORY History is a trajectory whose formative circumstances hinges on the uncontaminated breath of cultural studies. They are beyond the secular range of historicity and theory of knowledge. The historicity is often contaminated as being condition of symphonic narrative & ideological fermentation that…
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MASTER’S SEM-I : STUDIO-2014
MAPPING:READING:REPRESENTING TANGIBLE / INTANGIBLE / EXPERIENTIAL / TEMPORAL The studio i for the Masters in Urban Design and Urban Conservation introduces the students to ideas of mapping, reading & representation in the city. The mapping & representing is a construct of event through various methods of reading. The reading of event or narratives brings out…
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KRVIA + SPA: 2014 (MASTERS EXCHANGE)
In continuation & expansion of previous year workshop theme, the KRVIA+SPA workshop for Masters Sem: I, began with the mapping and suggestive guidelines of metro line:1, i:e Rithala – Dilshad Garden route. The group of 40 students divided in 10 subgroups began to examine the various station locations along the metro route. This year workshops…
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HOUSING AND AFFORDABILITY: URBAN CONTEXT
The IIA conference on affordable housing highlighted some of the key issues not only related to the theme but also to the generic question on Housing. Although the JLL report on Urban Housing clearly stating the deficiency of 24 million units within 10thfive year plan, within which 88% of housing units need in economical weaker…
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METRO-LOG: EAST WEST DISCORD.
The ongoing infrastructure development aspiration has taken few noteworthy steps. The first being eastern freeway from Indian Oil Nagar to SVP road, near Pricess Dock, the second being Santacruz East to Chembur Link road via Kurla and third one is Mumbai first Metro Line (Versova- Ghatkopar) The most sought out project of Mumbai Metro finally began with interesting statistic:…
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DEATH OF PLANNING COMMISSION
The Urban-ism is often spoken in line of inclusive accent, however in democratic India; the inclusiveness principally represented the view of liberal elite, assuming the authority on aspiration of proletariat mass. The most triumphant political transformation in recent time, the dramatic & historic change at center sees the surfacing of yet another class, that so far lay…
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SYNCHROMESHED URBANISM
“Cities are like electrical transformers: they increase tension, accelerate, exchanges, and are endlessly churning human lives” Fernand Braudel, (1967), Civilisation Matérielle et Capitalisme (cited in Paquout, 2000, 83) Very often Cities manifest, distilled & condensed activities, suddenly in jerks and revelation. This phenomena often remains incomprehensible. The F.C road at Pune is an example of such phenomena of sudden…
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Hindustan Times: 24/07/14 – EASTERN WATER FRONT
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EASTERN WATER FRONT
The proposal for eastern water front development needs re-consideration especially harbor line is also going though tremendous transformation and needs to wait for reality that shall surface, few years down the line, after actual transformation of redeveloped harbor line. It is very often seen that such opportunity are not seen as an asset rather as…
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TALE OF TWO BRIDGES: DAMAN
The exit from NH8 towards the Daman revealed sudden change of landscape. As it passes through the well maintained winding road, penetrating the thick forest almost appeared to be unending perceptually. The exist also showed the change of habitat and dialect. The terrain almost overwhelmed the greedy existence of fast movement. The Daman region arrival is archetype…
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KRVIA MASTER’S THESIS-2013 BATCH
One of the characteristics distinguishing Urban from architecture (A) is that of having long exalted the condition of individual to collective, singular to plural, intuitive to rationale, exclusion to inclusion, control to freedom, object to civility etc.. Inhabiting, as a notion, implies sense of belonging to a “concrete” place, region, identifiable as such, and decipherable…
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RADICAL CRITIQUES
READING: ON PLANNING THE IDEOLOGY OF PLANNING: D. HARVEY The built environment in a capitalistic society is the tool through which social harmony is created. Harvey views the nature of a capitalistic society as a balancing of the conflicting interest between economic factions. A complex web of interrelationships is the economic dynamo that steers ours society, and…
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HOUSE IN CALICUT
HOUSE IN CALICUT This is an ancestral house of family built 160 years ago. It is located in subdued corner of the city, making it almost inaccessible and invisible. The house is built in laterite stone (Chira) which is a typical characteristic of konkan, karwar & kerala region. The house plan has distinct three layers,…
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RE-CONSTRUCTED INSTITUTIONS: 2ND YEAR JURY
2ND YEAR JURY In general history is believed to be more misused and abused in process of reconstructing. Philosopher speaks of the truth in moral sense, poet in fictional sense, historiographer in context of event and interpretation. However within the profession of architecture the reconstruction of historical truth is often about nationalism, identity, strangely framed…
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SOCIAL MISSION: DAHANU SCHOOL
Dahanu is a small town, approximately 60 kilometer from Virar. It is also well connected by Local trains and due to train connectivity, the place has visible transformation in last two years. Traditionally the place is known for Chikoo plantation, due to abundant water resources and soil condition. The majority of of the land resources are reserved for…
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MASTER SEM: II STUDIO-DMIC
The current semester II explored the housing studio as housing typological formation, its delivery system and responses to the various regional and environmental conditions which shall be affected by Delhi- Mumbai industrial corridor. The initial group study of Jaipur and Vidyadhar nagar explored the various geographical aspect that connects the urban form as large and as a result…
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KS
The known Indian English writer Kushwant Singh position in public domain would remain unoccupied even if he had departed at 150. He is known as a writer in slightly formal way, but would more formally known as editor and journalist. However he never claimed to remain clamped in formality box because he has attained his…
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KRVIA: FOURTH YEAR JURY
The fourth year jury was refreshing from the point of view of change of scale of projects. It enables to comprehend the contextual complexity, micro-urbanism & resultant architecture. After reviewing the 10 presentation it was perhahps clear that architecture can not be afforded to get relegated to an object anymore. The distinction between regional and modern are always at conflict somehow.…
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COROLLARY HOUSE
The house is an expression of self imagination of mended undefined reality. The view that imagined to be framed by the window is a corollary to the desired views. The views and viewed are hinged on subconscious activity of mind. The view changes with intense distraction of what is viewed, the existence of window oscillates…
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ABANDONED ARCHITECTURE
A local train journey reveals different city altogether. It is quite surprising to witness the tidal wave of development surfacing in the horizon while blocks of building remain dilapidated in most of the cases. The stretch between Andheri to Goregaon, from Kandivali till Bhayander, once can clearly imagined the the diverse as well as conflicting…
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STEP WELLS
The ancient scripture on architecture prescribes the symbiotic relation of water and buildings & the imagination of such (non) building type always historically preoccupied with presence of shrine prominence. The profound belief of symbiotic relation of water and nature found its resolution in architecture in various part of India namely temple and kund. Perhaps the ritual significance…
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POLITICAL JAMBOREE
The pre-election movement to implement Jan-lokpal Bill had very clear manifesto that it should not amount to a gateway to main stream politics. The intent had mass appeal but it could not curtail or restrained its political aspiration. Now its ruling party of Union Territory and capital city. The absence of stalwart of the movement…
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KRVIA MASTER’S THESIS-2012 BATCH
The master thesis work was presented to the external jury on 3rd December 2013. The overall work appears to be slightly notch above its predecessor. Especially the research work has set the fresh standard and quality of representation has improved. The thesis work by Anuja, Shikha, Purva, Rutuja are noteworthy from the point of view…
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MANDU: THE CONDITION OF UNLEARNING
There are some visits that being premeditated and some being left to be imagined trips. The visit to Mandu has always been of later type. The visit to Mandu has been most sought out destination after my graduation since 1990. It’s an invigorating occurrence when imagined place collapses in to quintessential time. The usual departure…
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KRVIA MASTERS: SEM:I- KOLHAPUR CITY
MASTERS STUDIO:I The studio project of mapping and representation began with the understanding of city through the lens of various pattern. The pattern were generated through the initial survey and various past experiences of the city. The generic patterns were: occupation, tourism, administration, neighborhood natural resources etc. The groups were organized based on the generic pattern and precinct…
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KRVIA MASTERS: SEM III- STUDIO: DENSITIES & AMENITIES: FIRST SESSION ENGAGED BY CHARLES CORREA
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KRVIA MASTERS: SHIMLA HOUSING PROJECT: FINAL JURY 2013-Photographs: Credit: Krvia Masters
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CONSTITUTION TO INSTITUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL TO INSTITUTIONAL TERRORISM The beginning of new parliamentary session usually bring the unseasonal shower from all directions. It was expected that prior to monsoon session the retail/FDI/Food related regulation shall be strategically pushed into the parliament and announce the election during the month of January or February. But political adjustments moves much faster than…
