• AFFORDABLE HOUSING?

    AFFORDABLE HOUSING: WHOSE TERRITORY?   The urbanity has given new definition to  triad relationship of food, shelter & habitat and has become far more complex…

  • IUDI- SPA BHOPAL 2013

    IUDI: 2013: VENUE: SPA BHOPAL   PARTICIPANT: KRVIA- SPA DELHI- CEPT- SPA BHOPAL The IUDI thesis symposium is beginning to shape into a serious platform…

  • URBAN LAB+, BERLIN 2013

    INTRODUCTION THE LABORATORY APPROACH TO BUILT ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION. The project URBAN LAB+ is an initiation to set the interactive platform for various educational institutes who…

  • 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…

  • KRVIA-THU EXCHANGE WORKSHOP

    KRVIA- TUNG HAI UNIVERSITY (TAIWAN) MASTER’S EXCHANGE WORKSHOP EXTRACT FROM PROF SIMON INTRODUCTION: “The aim of this space syntax workshop is to equip postgraduate and/or senior undergraduate…

  • DISPLACED URBANISM & SHIMLA

    This was my second visit to Shimla & each visit had different intent and different impact. The duality or dichotomy that has surface now is that WHO…

  • ARCHITECTURE AS AN OBJECT

    Krvia has positioned itself to set locus of inquiry within the realm of social and cultural studies that shapes the architecture, which in turns allow…

  • ONE WAY VOYERISM

    The quite evening stroll through the inner lanes on designated footpaths, cross junctions at ease of traffic and two kilometer of stretch visible to naked eye in…

  • 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…

  • SKYWALK :SANTACRUZ STN.

    The kilometer stretch of dark and deserted serpentine nature of walk is layered on the busy street. The street known for its retail activity and famous for…

  • Krvia Masters Jury: Sem I

    KRVIA Masters: SEM I. STUDIO JURY The idea of mapping & reading is synonym to sensing or comprehending the events but in cartographic manner. The…

  • SOME WHAT WE KNOW- (URBAN DESIGN JURY AT NAVI MUMBAI)

    Although various institutes are assembling their master’s program (Urban Design) in the same city but situational conditions are determining the nature of approach. The sudden…

  • 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…

  • KRVIA-SPA: MASTER’S EXCHANGE

       After sketchy initiation KRVIA (Mumbai)-SPA (Delhi) began to shape up this year & incidentally for both the years. The exposure to domestic exchange program…

  • RED TRANSFORMATION

    Alley no.1.. near Bachu Seth Ki Wadi of Kamathipura witnessing the systematic attack of real estate transformation. The entire district en-mas to about 40 acre…

  • UNKNOWN STRUGGLE

    Perhaps South India had no Voltaire or Montesquieu to interpret political phenomenon in terms of pure reason. But the feeling of nationalism and patriotism was…

  • BALLARD ESTATE

    Fine urban design excersize carried out in 1914-18, housing port offices. The photographs are taken from top floor of our interior site.

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  • TACTICAL

  • URBAN-SUBURBAN

  • MASTER THESIS: 2012

    2012 Master’s thesis was a one stride up of its precedence by virtue of its urban concerns and representation. The intent has been varied significantly…

  • NANDED HOUSING SEM: II.

    NANDED HOUSING STUDIO; SEM II The studio was a collaborative exercise between resident communities and KRVIA. The RESULT was seen as a process of interaction…

  • IUDI 2012: SPA DELHI

    IUDI: 2012. The first day began with the Urban Design Thesis presentation from all six institutes. The nature of projects varied as far as context…

  • KRVIA + STUDIO X

    STUDIO-X: ERSICE. As part of Rosa Cerveras studio came to Mumbai where studio X organized a review of the work they have done on Mumbai…

  • KRVIA-TU (TAIWAN) EXCHANGE: 2012

    It all began with the theoretical idea of space & syntax analogue aided by software to understand & represent the urban mat based on its…

  • MASTER’S THESIS: 2011

    URBAN MATRIX Urban design is traditionally rendered with western academic forum. Its role is very often predetermined in abstraction of historicism on one hand while…

  • TRAGEDY OR BESTOWISM

    It is an interesting chapter in Indian history to see how English authority in India drew their authority from 1600-1765 by virtue of charter act…

  • HISTORIOGRAPHY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHER

    YEAR AUTHOR BOOKS PHILOSOPHY METHODS REMARKS 540 BC HECATEUS Travel Around the world reconciling truthfulness persian world Local Genealogies mythologies with critical examination critic of…

  • SOCIAL REFORMER

    CHARLES FOURIER (1772-1837) Francis Marie Charles Fourier was a french social reformer during the period of french revolution. He advocated the need for utopian society…

  • KRVIA MASTERS STUDIO: 2011

    KRVIA MASTER’S STUDIO JURY The jury for both the semester (I & III) happened to be on the same day. It’s a good idea to…

  • EASTERN RHAPSODY

    EASTERN RHAPSODY As metro rail moves from Nana Nua towards north bound station one intrigues by the way the metro has been carved out of…

  • STREET DANCING

  • USM 15TH AUGUST

  • "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.…

  • SURAT: LOGO-CENTRIC URBANISM

    I have visited Surat on numerous occasions knowing the orientation preciously from the point of view of stranger in the city without slightest clue of…

  • SEX, SOCIALIZING & URBANITY: TAIPEI HOUSING

      Every city exerts it own tactical forces that shapes our attitude towards sex and socializing pattern. The response to these forces are also forcing…

  • 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…

  • THESIS JURY:2011

      Thesis quality over last five years have improved tremendously as nature of inquiries across the board are above average. It is perhaps becoming difficult…

  • YILAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: TAIWAN

      Every culture strives for its identity by mean of architectural manifestation. Their formal language often depicts the nature of porosity that any culture ready…

  • HWANG’S ALBUM

    PRETEXT Architecture is most dynamic form of art whose limits are pushed beyond its boundary defined by its predecessor. It is very often derives its…

  • LECTURE AT TUNG HAI UNVERSITY

    As i arrived in Taiwan; did not have enough understanding of past experiences of our exchange programe. However to my surprise i was asked to…