Category: Architectural and Urban Theory
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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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ARCHITECTURAL THESIS: Practice of Academics or Academics of Practice
Studio @ KRVIA Last several decades one could see the altered responsibilities of architecture towards itself, cities, environment and other interdisciplinary dimensions. This has perhaps resulted into need of re-examination of the academics in contemporary times. Within the academics it is important to understand the role and scope of the architectural thesis (design desertion) as…
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THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
The recent annual lecture series at KRVIA titled as “Discourse on Technology” concluded with the talk by keynote speaker Prof. Dhruv Raina. The keynote address was able to dissect through various pre-assumed concepts and framework on technology that most of the architectural institutes conveniently have been working around with. The technology needed much required impetus…
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Positioning Architectural Theory
The article attempts to articulate the theoretical discourse in Architecture with epistemological understanding.
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ARCHITECTURE OF THE ENMESHED CULTURE
The recent trends of architecture demonstrates the pugnacious departure from disciplined modernism. The traditional notion of creativity is slowly replaced by innovation in technological inputs and tools that generate the forms rather than tools that aids the process of generating one. The sinuous forms, non-structured or non euclidean geometry are encapsulating minds and thoughts into unidirectional understanding of architecture…
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PRACTICE, KNOWLEDGE & CONTAMINATION
The knowledge paradigm in Architecture is asymptotic representation of imagined communication. The relationship of codes and referents to their architectonics facilitate the possibilities of the structuring of form, while repository of memory provides the formal assemblage of architecture. The Architectural ideas and knowledge is an ensemble of the notion of codes & system and their…
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ARCHITECTURE AND KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE
SOURCE: ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM-2015FACULTY: MANOJ PARMAR- KRVIA
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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EASTERN CARICATURE
The metaphor that attached with east is rising & perhaps manifested somewhere in our rituals & our cultural manifestation. The east is histoically a historical, that cannot be slightest exaggeration in that since we are facinated by narrative more than monuments. We have limited discussion on the very idea of east, especially from western biases.…
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HISTORIOGRAPHY & HEGELIAN DIALECTIC
HISTORIOGRAPHY & HEGELIAN DIALECTIC Taking cues of Idealistic period of history & philosophy (Rousseau) as will rather than pure cartesian fixation like newton’s law, Hegel moved further by inducting idealism through powefull weapon of dialectic. However there concern about moral & natural order which might have been overlooked by idealist. He further enlarged the concept…
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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…
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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…
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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”
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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…..
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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…
