Category: Architectural and Urban Theory
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cartesianism : Objective Domesticity
The significance of anthropocentric space, critical spirit, objectivity and secularization of thoughts are central to contemporary thinking and architectural production
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KRVIA ELECTIVE | POP CULTURE AND SEMIOTICS: Multi-Disciplinary Discourse
The postmodern is distinguished by the idea that there is not one but many truths and that the notions of truth are culturally and historically relative constructions. In a postmodern world where old uncertainties are undermined and identities are fragmented, the way forward for those working with popular culture has become less clear. In such…
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What is critical practice?
It often argued within the architecture fraternity about the role of critics or who is the architectural critic?, and very often such position that enacts the role of critics are treated to be outside the sphere of practice
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Christopher Alexander
There has been several attempts to theorize human aspect of urban form and primary literature by Christopher Alexander emphasizing elementarist approach to comprehensive urban experience, mainly revolved around scientific logic, delight & aesthetics, phenomena and everyday life.
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What will be has always been
We all are born with sense of what to do. Within our singular limit we know instinctively that, given an opportunity to put the ideas into practice, we know what to do almost instantaneously, if what we do is true to our singularity.
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Anthology of Houses – Part III
The part III we shall discuss the variations of modernist manifestos , bold tectonic operatives and complex formal architectural discourses that has influenced the academics and practices around the world.
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Anthology of Houses – Part II
The part II discusses the larger operative metaphor that has been experimented on houses and enable larger architectural discourses and influenced the academics and practices around the world
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City Culture Reader
The book attempts to articulate various interface between city and culture and written in interdisciplinary manner. The word interdisciplinary means it attempts to read city and culture from other disciplines or views.
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Learning and Theorizing Modernity
The 8 x 8 lecture series through video presentation is an attempt to articulate two aspects, primarily it articulates what is modernism and secondly it articulates what is architectural theory and how one can begin to understand the nature of architecture theory. The eight lectures titles are listed below with each lecture is explained with…
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Book Launch: Master Planning for Change
This book brings important conversation between urban resilience and urban morphology
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Space, the City and Social Theory
Author: Fran Tonkiss The book attempts to invert the view city as a fixed space within which various social processes are worked out. The city is a site for social encounter, social division, and as a field of politics, power and every day experience. Further in investigation, the author employs two key literature and school…
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What is Architectural Theory
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Cultural Territories and Urban Resilience
This is an ongoing effort to consolidate the resilience understanding in Indian context. The blog and video is an attempt to bring resilience perspective on soft cities. I: e culture of cities.
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Urban-Scape Theory
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New Frontiers of Urban Theory – A Global South Perspective
The literature on global cities is abundant but until recently most of it has been in relation to cities of the developed North. Rapidly urbanising second and third tier cities of India have now, however, grabbed scholarly attention propelling a ‘Southern turn’ in urban theory. The massive urban transformations currently underway throughout such cities calls…
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Architectural History and Theory: IES University, Bhopal
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Domain and Discipline: Urban Research
DOMAIN AND DISCIPLINE: URBAN RESEARCH SLIDE 1: This lecture shall focus on the content of thesis inquiry and the thesis question? You all must have gone through an undergraduate design dissertation or so called ‘thesis’ mainly focused on a few parameters that are subjected to design demonstration. It is seen very often that the parameterswhichare…
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Discussion on Architectural Thinking and Representation.
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Architectural Thinking and Architectural Knowledge
There are fine divisions between two terminologies that are often operationalized when one is carrying out thesis research, i.e. Architectural thinking and Architectural knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
