Author: betweenarchitectureandurbanism

  • TERROR

    “SAME—–SHAME”Its same time again,Its same terrorist again…Its perhaps same time of the year…Its same terror & same massacre…Its same media terrorizing each other for mirror….Its same “salaam Mumbai” from Delhi…..Its same condemnation & same grief…..Its same time again for blame game……Its same bewilder time for political priorities….Its same time for resignation & scapegoats…..Its same time…

  • NORWAY 2008

    Year 1990: I have visited most of the European countries on my way from US to back home. The visit lasted almost a month through comfortable E-rail First class unlimited pass. The last day of my visit was Amsterdam, where I drew my plan for next visit to Scandinavian Countries sometime in future. This is…

  • ARCHITECTURE & FASHION DESIGN

    All design disciplines are art form & have few things in common. However there is a difference between architecture & other design discipline is that it has stronger representational demand than rest. As one move away from architecture, art, literature, the representation becomes less dense or may not exist. The recent jury of third year…

  • TAKSHEEL

    I have blur memory of him, during our first year studio in 2007. However the incident has left deep scar of deleted reality within my psych. I think about death very often, it scary because of the fact that its deleted reality of left ones. His face reappears on & off due to some reason.…

  • DEHRADUN/ RISHIKESH

    After years of thinking & planning we could finally manage to visit Dehradun. The first impression os the place is that it is very clean town, perhaps the cleanest of all. It is mix terrain of what hill station setup & plain would be. It is very much visible in the trees & countours. The…

  • MEMORY

     

  • MATHERA

    Year 1983, Group of 25 students went on hiking to Matheran via Karjat. Its a longer route, & climb is slightly dangerous. The visit had more to do with the test of endurance then the place you visit. I was in second year architecture then. The place appeared after tortoures climb was no significance, parltly…

  • MEMORY

    Miroy’s birthday gift was album of his photographs collected since his first birthday, first day of school & various activity he enjoys. The album is 22 pages documenting almost 50 photographs in compressed size of CD box.

  • SUB- URBANIZATION

    CASE OF SANTACRUZ- WEST MANOJ PARMAR The morning walkers take walk at ease within the by lanes of Santa Cruz, west like Tagore road towards Madhu Park via Ramkrishna Temple complex or Derasar Road, via Main Avenue towards Arya Samaj. The common destination is park or public place scattered around the locality namely, Lions garden,…

  • PANCHGANI: 110708

    The visit to Panchgini has become annual ritual for us during this part of the year. It’s mainly due to non-tourist season & its climatic offering in july. This was the first time we started our drive late in the afternoon & planned to reach late night. We were apprehensive but ready to encounter new…

  • MONSOON MONUMENT

    MONSOON MONUMENT It has been 40 years of memory of monsoon in Santacruz lanes, its transformation in to new type of recreation in monsoon are still fresh though it is dated. This recreation is associated to school timings & high tide times; co-incidentally they were same 12.00 noon. The annual rainfall is 1000mm by whether…

  • Matrix and Metaphysics

    “The relation of Self & context establishes structure of epistemology which builds relation & dialogue. The inevitable expression is in the confinements of coscience, ethics & moral principal. Further it opens up for critical thinnking of dialectic & philosophic in nature. The dilemma of this matrix preoblematises the manifestation”

  • NICHE ARCHITECTURE

    ” How to become a rare commodity or niche out your self among the array of visible things”?…. is that architecture or individual destined to be rare & nicheable….,,,, is there any ethics that can be discussed within the discourse or practice/ production of architecture…..

  • DECADENCE OF ARCHITECTURE

    ” Its is almost imperative that everything we do around in Architecture in India is dubiously & un-intelligently decadence of Hindi cinema. How is that architecture can have autonomy of existence. The recent launch of architecture magazine is an attempt to singularize, glorify individual attainment & cerebral audacity. It thrives on unsolicited urbanity, attempting to…