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Battersea Power station Redevelopment, London
The Battersea Power Station redevelopment project has introduced the mix used approach to revive the iconic building originally designed by British architect Giles Gilbert Scott (who designed iconic telephone booth) along with the surrounding areas.
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Gender conscious approach towards conservation of “Shaktipeethas”, Places of Female Divine: A case of Mahur
Author: Chandan Jain | Krvia – Post Graduate Program | 2020 In India there is contradiction between patriarchy system and the traditional veneration of goddess for her sovereignty. There are diverse and conflicting views available on the position of females in religious texts, starting from feminine leadership as the uppermost goddess, to limiting her role…
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Smart Cities: Conclave 2020
The recent time has seen the shift in urban planning concerns of our cities, especially second tier cities. The emerging paradigm of SCM is aspired to be moving towards formation of reactive, reflective and knowledge-oriented society. The SCM is expected to move from functional, hierarchical formation of our cities to digitally networked situation
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Urban-Scape Theory
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Introduction to Urban Design
The lecture addresses:What is Urban Design, What are its constituents?, What are forces that urban designers have to deal with?
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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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METAPHORS AND MODERNITY: HOUSES
Houses have always remained as theoretical excursions medium to set new cannons for contemporary Architecture. The house has been re-invented number of times as one scan through the history of architecture. The act of re-invention of the house is perhaps a method of deactivating the dogmatic conditions with fresher metaphor towards contemporary life. The imagination…
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KRVIA MASTERS THESIS 2019 – PEDAGOGIC TRAJECTORIES
The masters thesis is about examination of either coordinated or unexplored coordinates of relation among various processes and spatial forms that are reproduced but not coherently articulated in urbanity at large. The political mobilization, economic transformation, ecological vulnerabilities, historic core and socio-cultural formation are some of the area of investigation as they are central to the…
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ARCHITECTURE OF SPA (VIJAYAWADA) BUILDING
The building of institutional architecture has long been obsession of state since independence and the legacy continues till date. Since then we have witnessed the architecture that are abstemiously struggling to bring about pan-Indian architecture of earlier phase to contemporary global architecture in recent times. The architecture that oscillated from decadence of Indian architectural wisdom…
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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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KRVIA MASTERS: LOCAL AREA PLAN: 2018
SEMESTER III STUDIO (URBAN DESIGN + URBAN CONSERVATION) The new paradigm called for planning practice to be “bottom up” and “people centred”, and not relies on economists, engineers and statisticians alone. The significance of anthropologists, sociologists, scholars of cultural studies and grassroots activists who were closer to people were brought within the folds of this…
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CHURCHES: BRUSSELS & COLOGNE
The Brussels Church (S.Gudule) and Cologne Church are two finest example of Gothic Architecture, but moving in line with ecclesiastical architecture of early 1200 to 1475 AD. It shows the influences from french church architecture but depicting early tendencies of Romanesque characteristics. The architecture of both the churches are governed by similar plan and similar volume of nave and aisles. Both…
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KRVIA – SPA 2016
The exchange workshop (Masters Semester I) moved from its earlier mono-directional transformation through new transportation corridor to multi-directional transformation through new ring road metro. The new ring road metro collides with existing rail corridor and existing radial metro lines. The attempt of the workshop was to expand and reinforce the existing network and imagine the…
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CHURCH: LUND, SWEDEN.
The church in lund represent the fine Romanesque Architecture built out of sandstone, built in 1000 AD. The similar time frame the various monuments built across the world. In Indian context it was Brihadeeshwara Temple in Thanjavur by Chhola Dynasty and Qutub Minar by Qutub Al Din Aibak. In the context of Europe there were some of…
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KRVIA MASTERS CONFERENCE: COMMUNITY HERITAGE
KRVIA Urban Conservation Department initiated the workshop and conference (Collaboration with University of Coimbra, Portugal) on Community Heritage on the fringes of an Indian Metropolis. The intent of the workshop was to unearth the important community architecture that has helped and shaped the ethos and cultural practices within the cities and fringes of such cities. …
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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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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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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…
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STREET DANCING
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USM 15TH AUGUST
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"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…
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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…
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The day that perhaps embedded for years to come, as recent as just now & perhaps as not real as it can. But its reality & it may take as many years to accept & get embedded deep within psych. Still fresh memory of coming back from institute, desperately stopped by every signal on…
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MEMORY
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LINGUISTIC LAMENTATION
The linguistic territorial behavior is at display right across the state in search for identifiable camp. The politics of linguistic aggression is criticized all across in the name of secular & nationalism. The media, other political camp in disguise of secular clone has joined the mass combat on such endeavour. The several well to do…
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MEMORY
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MEMORY
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ELECTION FOR SECULAR FANATICISM
The years after Indian independence has yielded the power to Nehru was unparallel. The task of creating some sense of pan Indian or nationalism was huge. However amidst of that we followed secular path within the wisdom of non-align status. The constitutionally evolved freedom coupled with secular & democratic virtues trying to dwell on non-align…
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PROFESSOR JOSHI.
Year 1980, few young students of 12th standard attending Prof. Joshi lecture on Organic Chemistry, floored by his immense knowledge on subject. He could cite page numbers for related topics from various books. He was perhaps best faculty by then, naturally, each student would follow his method to prepare for exams. The time has gone…
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MELANCHOLIC FRIDAY
The failures are vanquished, perhaps redundant of so called civilized society. The misery of such despondent thoughts are very much Indian & perhaps victors are like epic heroism. The paranoia over failure is assumed to be horror, which one may not able to rationalize even if one indulge in practiced anti-system. To work against the…
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DUMB SLOGGED FOR YEARS I saw two movies back to back, Slum dog Millionaire & Escape to Victory without any intention of comparing two (both movies are separated by span of 28 years). First movie I saw was by shear inquisitiveness while later by passion. However, comparison was unavoidable, since both movies hinges on idea…
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PHILOSOPHY OF MISERY Josheph Proudhon, a french moralist & social reformer, voiced in his book ” Philosophy of Misery” the typical middle class objection to the concetration of economic power and consequent difficulties. He advocated the abolition of private property law for communal or mutual benifit association. The publication had background in the year (1865)…
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The poona visit had strange encounter with lakhs of people flooding Pune-Banglore Highway. Five Kilometer stretch was standstill for almost half a day. The gathering was in honour of citation offered to the disciple of swami samarth follower by sharad pawar. The temperature was around 37 Degree, yet it did not mar the spirit &…
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OTHER BAMBOOZLE (FORWARD) CLASS: In 1979, a young 10th standard graduate aspired to do engineering, and left for Gujarat for desired study. He is innocent about his background, not did he understood the meaning of complex web of class stratification. He took pride in the explicit meaning of hammer associated to his background of caste…
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BLACK CROWS & DETERMINISTIC THICK LINE The effort of art is to mould the social, political advances or their institutions etc. into critical manifestation. It is an inquiry into socio-cultural process which every individual are engaged to. The reciprocal process of interaction between existential order & manifestation is a dialogue between abstract & isolated individuals.…
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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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BREAK HO MAMA
The rise of an under privilege almost after more than 200 years of independence history is mockery of most forward, democratic & supposed to be civilized nation. I am really amazed & shocked by the frenzied Indians all around, as if their daughters married to the hero of MB straight out of new princely state.…
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WET DREAM
The imagination of 14th January is a psychological clock, prevailed for almost as old as I am, except three years of stay in USA. The new calendar has been demarcated with the day it falls; the closer it is to weekend the brighter the New Year would be. The normal kite flying would start at…
