• SRILANKA

    The trip to Srilanka came up with low expectation but ended with deep impression about the terrain/ people. Srilanka has abundand naturaly gifted situations. The…

  • IUDI: THESIS SEMINAR:2010:

    The IUDI seminar on thesis at Ahemdabad brings about several issues related to the discipline of Urban Design that are central to debate all the…

  • 9ON260610

  • 230609130

      The day that perhaps embedded for years to come, as recent as just now & perhaps as not real as it can. But its…

  • AKHIL DADKAR

    AKHIL DADKAR

    Perhaps the most unknown figure among architecture fraternity that I have witness is Akhil Dadkar. Akhil Dadkar was a product of Bandra School of Architecture…

  • KRVIA THESIS JURY 2010

    The jury performances are always remain inadequate, when one look at only final product. However this year jury managed to raise that queries to level…

  • MASTER’ JURY

    The jury went with few notes as i began to question many things that may bring the discourse of abstraction in center. The ideal of…

  • MEMORY

  • UNDISCIPLINED ETYMOLOGY

    The undisciplined city conference on 30/11/09 had some interesting views & interpretation of our city that are going through rigorous transformation. The list of deformities…

  • 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,…

  • SAURASHTRA

    The cyclical route to Saurashtra seems analogus to cyclical notion of time that exist in our memory. The travelling distance of 2000 km appeared like…

  • SHIMLA

  • 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…

  • CHANOD

  • FORMLESS URBANISM

    There are several ghat cities in India associated to myth, religion & rites. The city close to Bharuch know as Chanod is perhaps less unknown…

  • MEMORY

  • CITY OF 69

    The city of oxford had not changed as mush as people. The city was predictably different: it was bigger: the cars: and shops were numerous…

  • THE LOST CITY

    The city constantly neogtiating with what is central and what is marginal. The ghats are victims of constant negotiation. Once being a central are now…

  • DENUDE DUALITY

    The often visit to Karjat has been ritual for past two years without much attentive to emerging built reality. The saturday visit had revealed some…

  • MASTERS THESIS: 2009

    I was once told by my professor when discussing about research at post graduate level… its about what not to do than what to do..…

  • MEMORY

  • TRANSFER OF DE-GRADABLE RIGHTS

    The time is about to come for new convenient associations, for old betraying habit, for new convenient relation, for ideological disguise. Nowhere in the world…

  • COMMON MINIMUM PRGRAM=3+1+1

    Five years back when UPA framed the CPM with CPM, its derived from two contradictory forces. One was to restrained while other was to expand…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 3×3 IMPASSE

    Five year old boy was much influenced by his father imagination of locomotive & fast moving machines. Boy would take up as keen interest on…

  • SURAT

    SURAT ARCHITECTURE COLLEGE RIVERSIDE ARCHITECTURE INNER CITYRIVER SIDE SATURDAY FLEE MARKET

  • DUMB SLOGGED FOR YEARS I saw two movies back to back, Slum dog Millionaire & Escape to Victory without any intention of comparing two (both…

  • PHILOSOPHY OF MISERY Josheph Proudhon, a french moralist & social reformer, voiced in his book ” Philosophy of Misery” the typical middle class objection to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • BLACK CROWS & DETERMINISTIC THICK LINE The effort of art is to mould the social, political advances or their institutions etc. into critical manifestation. It…

  • 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…

  • INFRASTRUCTURE INFATUATION

    The recent statistic shows that BMC spends only 30% of the cost on infrastructure development in Bombay. However the quantum of work carried out do…

  • CHANDNI CHOWK

    The bizarre advent of new wave of metabolism group in sixties, proclaiming the need to change the approach to way we design our cities. The…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • IUDI, COLLOQIUM: 2009

    The formation of IUDI is much awaiting formations, awaited for many years. Although it its formation has to wait for even IID organization, that was…

  • OSCAR OSPREY

    There seems to be sudden urge for another award for acclamation within Hindi cinema. The regional acclamations are denounced for global presence. It seems to…

  • KRVIA ANNUAL-2008

    The annual event on house & housing was partly successful, since it gave chance to each faculty to speak on related issues. However the failure…