Tag: BOOK REVIEWS

  • 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…

  • SMALL CHANGE: COMMUNITY & ADAPTABILITY

    This blog attempts to raise some of the fundamental questions related to adaptability, formal & informal, communities, individual and collective,  while encountering everyday risk, coping capacity and way to reduce vulnerability. Very often the definition of communities in our cities are relegated through compartmentalized geographical/ policy version, namely, SRA housing, slum, suburban housing, urban community…

  • LUCKNOW: CULTURE, PLACE, BRANDING & ACTIVITISM

    The recently published book titled “Lucknow: Culture, Place, Branding & Activitism” is a scholastic urban research work on contemporary urban transformation of Indian Second Tier cities. This especially brings about the urban discourse on second tier city subject whose genesis are embedded into the historic layers and are currently witnessing the rapid transformation. It builds…

  • URBANISM ECOLOGY AND PLACE: Reading "City Riffs"

    The recent publication of book titled ” City Riffs” by Richard Plunz ( Columbia University, GSAPP) is based on urbanism discourse (dialogue) in relation to place and ecology. The preface by Kenneth Frampton argues the production of urban knowledge in neo-liberal economy results in aporetic question on limits and scope in the field of urban study.…

  • TRENDS AND ISSUES IN HOUSING IN ASIA: Book Review

    The recently launched publication attempting to address housing situation in Asia,  derives its momentum from current theoretical inquiries into Asian Urbanism at large. The earlier literature were skewed towards the model of modernism and progressive, imagining the notion of future, and often Utopian in western generic sense. The publication is deviating and focusing on Asian models in addressing…