Tag: Architecture
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Two Buildings by Antoine Predock: Phoenix
Antoine Predock’s architecture occupies a distinct and influential position in contemporary American design, defined by its powerful engagement with landscape, movement, and cultural memory. His work consistently resists conventional formalism, instead emerging from an intimate reading of place—its geology, climate, and mythologies.
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Baroque Materialism in Hudson Yards
The Vessel project, although celebrated by its greatness and scale, reflects a disconcerting reality: the prioritization of the show on the substance, a distinctive seal of baroque thinking and contemporary capitalist culture.
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Leon Krier
Leon Krier’s rigorous, thoughtful ideas and argument have left a significant mark on contemporary urbanism, advocating for a holistic approach focused on meeting the urgent needs of our time.
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Infrastructure as an Ecosystem
This research challenges the traditional, technocratic view of infrastructure, typically treated as disconnected systems like transportation, utilities, and buildings, evaluated purely through metrics of efficiency and productivity. Such fragmented approaches fail to acknowledge the intricate, socially embedded realities that make urban life meaningful.
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Vadodara Central Library: Edwin Lutyens
The library is a poignant representation of the role of architecture in the formation of social values and promotes community identity in a world of rapid change
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The Architectural Significance of Marcel Breuer’s Becton Engineering Building
Two buildings primarily dotting up the Yale University Campus architecture at New Haven. The Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture building and Marcel Breuer’s Becton engineering building. Both are the finest example of brutalist phase of modern architecture
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Architectural Nemesis: The Clash of trends and the Evolution of Identity
The concept of architectural nemesis offers a convincing lens through which to examine the interaction between conflicting styles and philosophies within architectural discourse and its manifestation.
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The Crisis of Architectural Education in India – IV
The architectural theory reflects a dynamic interaction between aesthetic ideals and socio-political contexts, shaping the built environment.
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The Crisis of Architectural Education in India – I
Architectural education in India faces several critical challenges, many of which stem from a combination of outdated pedagogical models, regulatory constraints, and the rapidly changing demands of the profession
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Memorials: Architecture of Redundance
We are witnessing the era of architectural experimentation in the process of progressive generalized abstraction not allowing the sensory experience to assimilate the relationship of concrete to abstract or vice versa
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Ahmedabad: Good City Form.
There are several historical cities in India that are living cities, keeping customs and rituals in tandem with new means and ways of re-purposing its architectural heritage and urban form.
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Historic Cities | Imagining Past as Future: A Case of Ahmednagar
The thesis intends to understand the extent and interrelation of the historic layers expressed through historic buildings and monuments with their extended environment and urban form by analyzing the role and status of Heritage
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Architectural History and Theory: IES University, Bhopal
