Author: betweenarchitectureandurbanism

  • AFFORDABLE HOUSING?

    AFFORDABLE HOUSING: WHOSE TERRITORY?   The urbanity has given new definition to  triad relationship of food, shelter & habitat and has become far more complex process. The recent private/public band wagon of affordable housing agencies are yet another attempt to generate land ownership pattern. The attempt is to prove the affordability by numbers that are acceptable by…

  • IUDI- SPA BHOPAL 2013

    IUDI: 2013: VENUE: SPA BHOPAL   PARTICIPANT: KRVIA- SPA DELHI- CEPT- SPA BHOPAL The IUDI thesis symposium is beginning to shape into a serious platform to share the research and discuss the theoretical questions in Indian context. The participants have clearly demonstrated that the regional questions are important in theorizing urban research. The four institutes…

  • URBAN LAB+, BERLIN 2013

    INTRODUCTION THE LABORATORY APPROACH TO BUILT ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION. 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 and coordinator for the entire project.…

  • MASKED URBANISM

    MASKED URBANISM: art festival “fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recognize; whereas, after a time, not having been detected and treated ,  it becomes easy to recognize but impossible to cure”  Niccolò Machiavelli consumption of routine, parody of mutedin display of perceptive  burning up of averagerejection of intenseexquisite of left…

  • KRVIA-THU EXCHANGE WORKSHOP

    KRVIA- TUNG HAI UNIVERSITY (TAIWAN) MASTER’S EXCHANGE WORKSHOP EXTRACT FROM PROF SIMON INTRODUCTION: “The aim of this space syntax workshop is to equip postgraduate and/or senior undergraduate students with a well integrated analytical and planning design methodology to first deal with a complicated urban/rural system to diagnose and to tease out existing urban/rural development issues and secondly…

  • DISPLACED URBANISM & SHIMLA

    This was my second visit to Shimla & each visit had different intent and different impact. The duality or dichotomy that has surface now is that WHO to conserve for and WHO to construct for. This has been the most difficult visit as witnessed the glaring reality of social life that has literally engulfed the entire topocentric urban-ism of…

  • ARCHITECTURE AS AN OBJECT

    Krvia has positioned itself to set locus of inquiry within the realm of social and cultural studies that shapes the architecture, which in turns allow us to expand the architectural value system. The theme of Object of Architecture and Architecture of Object is an ongoing attempt to theorize the decoding and coding system that operates…

  • ONE WAY VOYERISM

    The quite evening stroll through the inner lanes on designated footpaths, cross junctions at ease of traffic and two kilometer of stretch visible to naked eye in the early winter evening. The superficial feel of fresh early winter wind was penetrating as it never was. The casual greetings on roads became less dense and suddenly one could celebrate the anonymity engage…

  • SHADOW OF HISTORY

    The symphonic narrative of rise and fall of any ideological thought or an institution is embedded in its nature of symbolic narrative that has generated since its formative circumstances. The thought or an idea that hinges on the clean breath of cultural studies and able to set the trajectory beyond the range of secular pattern of thought…

  • SKYWALK :SANTACRUZ STN.

    The kilometer stretch of dark and deserted serpentine nature of walk is layered on the busy street. The street known for its retail activity and famous for its Thursday market. The street double sided shopping stretch iced with informal shopping outside. After construction of sky-walk  it offers four layer of informal shopping, almost making the parody of its…

  • Krvia Masters Jury: Sem I

    KRVIA Masters: SEM I. STUDIO JURY The idea of mapping & reading is synonym to sensing or comprehending the events but in cartographic manner. The reading of city through the cartographer lens is always a challenge. The Baroda studio exercise through its layered history brought out the complex dynamics of legal system, institutional system and…

  • SOME WHAT WE KNOW- (URBAN DESIGN JURY AT NAVI MUMBAI)

    Although various institutes are assembling their master’s program (Urban Design) in the same city but situational conditions are determining the nature of approach. The sudden rise of awareness in Urban Design is noteworthy & experiments are mending the tedious path of establishing distinct institution’s approach towards the same. The distinct approaches can clearly be rationalized…

  • ADVOCACY URBANISM

    Due to urban crisis by virtue of industrialization and migration, major cities have transformed into quintessential reality of what is urban. The seemingly disorder are result of political, social and economic shifts. The cities are uniformly destined towards capitalistic goals. There is definitely a wider gap that exists in apprehension of such phenomena & strategy…

  • KRVIA-SPA: MASTER’S EXCHANGE

       After sketchy initiation KRVIA (Mumbai)-SPA (Delhi) began to shape up this year & incidentally for both the years. The exposure to domestic exchange program has distinct advantage even though it has comparable/similar cultural envelop. It is because of different geographical situation & perhaps different metaphors that city exercise on us. The approaches of both…

  • RED TRANSFORMATION

    Alley no.1.. near Bachu Seth Ki Wadi of Kamathipura witnessing the systematic attack of real estate transformation. The entire district en-mas to about 40 acre & has history dated back to Britisher time when they developed port trust.  The red district may soon become the blue collar district. The transformation of precious precinct is inevitable…

  • UNKNOWN STRUGGLE

    Perhaps South India had no Voltaire or Montesquieu to interpret political phenomenon in terms of pure reason. But the feeling of nationalism and patriotism was never second to any foreign country. The greatest political thinker of South India then was Maruda Pandyan a rebel leader of the Sivaganga. His concerns were revolved around: –          Obstructive…

  • BALLARD ESTATE

    Fine urban design excersize carried out in 1914-18, housing port offices. The photographs are taken from top floor of our interior site.

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  • TACTICAL

  • URBAN-SUBURBAN

  • MASTER THESIS: 2012

    2012 Master’s thesis was a one stride up of its precedence by virtue of its urban concerns and representation. The intent has been varied significantly but everyone remained subservient to the methodology that frequelty has been emphasized. Thesis topic varied by intention on: – TOPOGRAPHY & URBANISM – MOVEMENT SYSTEM & URBANISM – TRANSFORMATION OF…

  • NANDED HOUSING SEM: II.

    NANDED HOUSING STUDIO; SEM II The studio was a collaborative exercise between resident communities and KRVIA. The RESULT was seen as a process of interaction between these slum dwellers and the Nanded Municipal Corporation. Thus at various stages in the studio there was planned to have interaction between these agencies.   The first part of…

  • IUDI 2012: SPA DELHI

    IUDI: 2012. The first day began with the Urban Design Thesis presentation from all six institutes. The nature of projects varied as far as context concerned but the quality of inquiry remained fairly uniform throughout. The nature of intervention always remained suspended or left ambiguous. The discussion resulted into larger domain of Urban Design i:…

  • KRVIA + STUDIO X

    STUDIO-X: ERSICE. As part of Rosa Cerveras studio came to Mumbai where studio X organized a review of the work they have done on Mumbai under theme of “Recycle Mumbai”. The Columbia workshop exhibition got extended into the new interactive session with students from Spain. The KRVIA Masters students got to meet them and talk…

  • KRVIA-TU (TAIWAN) EXCHANGE: 2012

    It all began with the theoretical idea of space & syntax analogue aided by software to understand & represent the urban mat based on its phenomenal properties. It began to look tentative initially since computer parameter deciding the urban phenomenon seems far from even perceptional questions. As workshop started with the site visits & bringing…

  • MASTER’S THESIS: 2011

    URBAN MATRIX Urban design is traditionally rendered with western academic forum. Its role is very often predetermined in abstraction of historicism on one hand while iconic & ideality on other hand. Urban design, architecture & Indian cities. A city is a palimpsest, a document with many layers of accretion & imperfect erasure, many glosses &…

  • TRAGEDY OR BESTOWISM

    It is an interesting chapter in Indian history to see how English authority in India drew their authority from 1600-1765 by virtue of charter act of the British crown, parliament, & declining power of the great moguls and other native rulers of India. The western countries already had their trade route via Constantinople to Asian…

  • HISTORIOGRAPHY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHER

    YEAR AUTHOR BOOKS PHILOSOPHY METHODS REMARKS 540 BC HECATEUS Travel Around the world reconciling truthfulness persian world Local Genealogies mythologies with critical examination critic of myths history of conventional myth 490 BC HERODOTUS history on persian war moral & didactive causes, courses, liberation of greek view results of war from persians need for history to…

  • SOCIAL REFORMER

    CHARLES FOURIER (1772-1837) Francis Marie Charles Fourier was a french social reformer during the period of french revolution. He advocated the need for utopian society based on the voluntary association of producers in units known as “PHALANX”. Fourier earned a high reputation as great social thinker. Fourier’s mind showed high degree of imaginative literary ideas…

  • KRVIA MASTERS STUDIO: 2011

    KRVIA MASTER’S STUDIO JURY The jury for both the semester (I & III) happened to be on the same day. It’s a good idea to have the two semester jury on same day as an event where we can see the work collectively and juror also can have larger & collective canvas to react to.…

  • EASTERN RHAPSODY

    EASTERN RHAPSODY As metro rail moves from Nana Nua towards north bound station one intrigues by the way the metro has been carved out of dense fabric. It appears like serpent, scalping & negotiating through hashes. It sometimes appears precarious, sometimes entertaining as new high rises are lined up across the metro with plazas facing…

  • STREET DANCING

  • USM 15TH AUGUST

  • "ITS MY RIGHT"

    The “Jan Lokpal Bill” is known in English as “ombudsman bill”. As per Wikipedia. It means the intermediary / representative between constitution and external constituency. This empowers the constituency to investigate any charged beaurocrates without prior permission from center. Before we even understand such constitutional meaning of Lokpal Bill it is necessary to understand what…

  • SURAT: LOGO-CENTRIC URBANISM

    I have visited Surat on numerous occasions knowing the orientation preciously from the point of view of stranger in the city without slightest clue of the existence of various layers that has shaped the city. Its assumes the city to exist with specific signs & symbols that normatively structures the images and results in to…

  • SEX, SOCIALIZING & URBANITY: TAIPEI HOUSING

      Every city exerts it own tactical forces that shapes our attitude towards sex and socializing pattern. The response to these forces are also forcing us to shape our buildings. The visit to central downtown Taipei had revealed similar characteristics and not different from other city in endowing the city with typology of buildings shapes…

  • URBAN DESIGN THESIS:2011

    The master thesis seems to have been struggling to built argument ever since, however Ekta’s thesis showed some greater possibilities of research and argument for future. Her work showed some close relation with how an Urban Designer operates, intervenes and conceptualize within the urban design framework. Her work may not be the best we can…

  • THESIS JURY:2011

      Thesis quality over last five years have improved tremendously as nature of inquiries across the board are above average. It is perhaps becoming difficult to identify the best one. Along with the quality of inquiry, the quality of drawings have reached its best level as ever. I have never seen such quality of drawings…

  • YILAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: TAIWAN

      Every culture strives for its identity by mean of architectural manifestation. Their formal language often depicts the nature of porosity that any culture ready to absorb by new means in conversation with global imperatives. It is difficult to comment on aspiration of any such endeavor but its very approach that designer solemnly aspired to…

  • HWANG’S ALBUM

    PRETEXT Architecture is most dynamic form of art whose limits are pushed beyond its boundary defined by its predecessor. It is very often derives its momentum from global forces and aspiration. The priority that one exercise depends on various traits that shapes individual and our cultural aspiration. The momentum that modernism exerted on globalism resulted…

  • LECTURE AT TUNG HAI UNVERSITY

    As i arrived in Taiwan; did not have enough understanding of past experiences of our exchange programe. However to my surprise i was asked to give talk on traditional cities of India. I am definitely not an expert on this subject matter but tried my best of eight hours of preparation to put to gether.…