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LONDON: ARCHITECTURE OF FIERCE EPISODE
London has not much changed from imperial point of view of the city, rather it has changed from left over city point of view. It…
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ARCHITECTURE AND KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE
SOURCE: ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM-2015FACULTY: MANOJ PARMAR- KRVIA
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THE CATCHING SKY
ENMESHED I The post independence years saw rise in state identity crisis and perhaps architecture found its new wisdom in seeking such political identity of…
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BATESARA: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
The site is approximately 30 minutes drive from city center and has approachable road. The excavation site is on hill, sloping towards west, hence the…
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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE BUILDING: BARODA
The School of Architecture building at M.S. University, Baroda is more than 100 year old building. The main component of construction is brick load bearing,…
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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…
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KRVIA MASTER’S THESIS – 2015
The graduating seventh batch thesis defense oscillated through various thoughts on urbanism. The range and responses are becoming wider and far open ended than predecessor.…
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CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATION
A lot has been said on conservation especially world has turned this discipline into a fashionable and niche-able commodity of past. This is perhaps true in urban forms of…
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KRVIA MASTERS: STUDIO II: URBAN DESIGN/ URBAN CONSERVATION.
STUDIO II The pre-industrial cities are rapidly transforming itself into a large urban agglomeration. This cities are often developed without direction or development guidelines. This…
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CLUSTER MEETING AT SWITZERLAND (BASEL + LAUSANNE)
THE LABORATORY APPROACH TO BUILT ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION. (ABSTRACT FROM SYMPOSIUM MEETING HELD AT TU-BERLIN) The project URBAN LAB+ is an initiation to set the interactive…
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ARCHITECTURE OF BRANDS
When question is raised on ideological rooting within the moral stamp & canonical paramount of architecture, the resultant cultural manifestation, very often remains aloof and outside the discourse on architectural…
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MINIMUM (RITUAL) CITY
The city arrives through stark landscape of mountain range from distance and large reservoir. The stark landscape of rock formation makes city fabric far more…
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OBJECTIVE DOMESTICITY
CARTESIANISM: OBJECTIVE DOMESTICITY Intellectual revolution and theoretical objectivity in contemporary architecture. “Historical & Comparative” The…
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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…
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MASTER’S SEM-I : STUDIO-2014
MAPPING:READING:REPRESENTING TANGIBLE / INTANGIBLE / EXPERIENTIAL / TEMPORAL The studio i for the Masters in Urban Design and Urban Conservation introduces the students to ideas…
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KRVIA + SPA: 2014 (MASTERS EXCHANGE)
In continuation & expansion of previous year workshop theme, the KRVIA+SPA workshop for Masters Sem: I, began with the mapping and suggestive guidelines of metro…
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HOUSING AND AFFORDABILITY: URBAN CONTEXT
The IIA conference on affordable housing highlighted some of the key issues not only related to the theme but also to the generic question on…
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METRO-LOG: EAST WEST DISCORD.
The ongoing infrastructure development aspiration has taken few noteworthy steps. The first being eastern freeway from Indian Oil Nagar to SVP road, near Pricess Dock,…
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DEATH OF PLANNING COMMISSION
The Urban-ism is often spoken in line of inclusive accent, however in democratic India; the inclusiveness principally represented the view of liberal elite, assuming the authority on…
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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,…
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Hindustan Times: 24/07/14 – EASTERN WATER FRONT
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EASTERN WATER FRONT
The proposal for eastern water front development needs re-consideration especially harbor line is also going though tremendous transformation and needs to wait for reality that…
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TALE OF TWO BRIDGES: DAMAN
The exit from NH8 towards the Daman revealed sudden change of landscape. As it passes through the well maintained winding road, penetrating the thick forest…
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KRVIA MASTER’S THESIS-2013 BATCH
One of the characteristics distinguishing Urban from architecture (A) is that of having long exalted the condition of individual to collective, singular to plural, intuitive…
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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.…
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HOUSE IN CALICUT
HOUSE IN CALICUT This is an ancestral house of family built 160 years ago. It is located in subdued corner of the city, making it…
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RE-CONSTRUCTED INSTITUTIONS: 2ND YEAR JURY
2ND YEAR JURY In general history is believed to be more misused and abused in process of reconstructing. Philosopher speaks of the truth in moral…
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SOCIAL MISSION: DAHANU SCHOOL
Dahanu is a small town, approximately 60 kilometer from Virar. It is also well connected by Local trains and due to train connectivity, the place…
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MASTER SEM: II STUDIO-DMIC
The current semester II explored the housing studio as housing typological formation, its delivery system and responses to the various regional and environmental conditions which shall be affected…
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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…
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KRVIA: FOURTH YEAR JURY
The fourth year jury was refreshing from the point of view of change of scale of projects. It enables to comprehend the contextual complexity, micro-urbanism & resultant architecture.…
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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…
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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…
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STEP WELLS
The ancient scripture on architecture prescribes the symbiotic relation of water and buildings & the imagination of such (non) building type always historically preoccupied with…
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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…
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KRVIA MASTER’S THESIS-2012 BATCH
The master thesis work was presented to the external jury on 3rd December 2013. The overall work appears to be slightly notch above its predecessor.…
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MANDU: THE CONDITION OF UNLEARNING
There are some visits that being premeditated and some being left to be imagined trips. The visit to Mandu has always been of later type.…
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KRVIA MASTERS: SEM:I- KOLHAPUR CITY
MASTERS STUDIO:I The studio project of mapping and representation began with the understanding of city through the lens of various pattern. The pattern were generated through the…
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KRVIA MASTERS: SEM III- STUDIO: DENSITIES & AMENITIES: FIRST SESSION ENGAGED BY CHARLES CORREA
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KRVIA MASTERS: SHIMLA HOUSING PROJECT: FINAL JURY 2013-Photographs: Credit: Krvia Masters
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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…
PUBLICATION
RECENT RESEARCH PAPER: “Architectural Thinking in a Time of Climate Emergency” https://publications.waset.org/10013583/architectural-thinking-in-a-time-of-climate-emergency
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