Tag: Contemporary Architecture
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Negotiating Housing: Aurangabad Studio
When we discuss the housing in Indian context, one faces the complexity & multiplicity of issues that shapes the house and housing. Having said that, the housing policy and manifestation in contemporary time chooses to evade many of such complexities through uniform policy structure and creates a scenario of replicability and anywhere-ness.
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ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT: ENRIC MIRALLES
The Architecture of Scottish Parliament on first thought defies the question of identity, the explicit sense of belonging and collective iconography in contextual sense.
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ARATA ISOZAKI
“The aim of the latter-day Avant garde is either to validate itself through media or alternatively, to redeem its guilt by executing the rite of creative exorcism in isolation.” Manfredo Taffuri The Japanese architect Arata Isozaki’s work could best be explained in terms of theoretical in-between conditions or ambivalent in nature that most of the…
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ARCHITECTURE OF SPA (VIJAYAWADA) BUILDING
The building of institutional architecture has long been obsession of state since independence and the legacy continues till date. Since then we have witnessed the architecture that are abstemiously struggling to bring about pan-Indian architecture of earlier phase to contemporary global architecture in recent times. The architecture that oscillated from decadence of Indian architectural wisdom…
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THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
The recent annual lecture series at KRVIA titled as “Discourse on Technology” concluded with the talk by keynote speaker Prof. Dhruv Raina. The keynote address was able to dissect through various pre-assumed concepts and framework on technology that most of the architectural institutes conveniently have been working around with. The technology needed much required impetus…
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ARCHITECTURE OF THE ENMESHED CULTURE
The recent trends of architecture demonstrates the pugnacious departure from disciplined modernism. The traditional notion of creativity is slowly replaced by innovation in technological inputs and tools that generate the forms rather than tools that aids the process of generating one. The sinuous forms, non-structured or non euclidean geometry are encapsulating minds and thoughts into unidirectional understanding of architecture…
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ZAHA HADID: INNOVATION TOWER, HONG KONG
The recently opened Innovation tower building in Hon kong Polytechnic University is fine example of contemporary building practice by Zaha Hadid. The building has spectacular presence in central open space where existing buildings have their dated presence of modernist era. The eccentric cascade of fluid form draws the attention among the brick cladded disciplined modern building. The…
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Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Museum in PARIS
The Museum building designed and constructed in 2006 by known architect Jean Nouvel. The museum building located just behind the Eiffel tower and along the water edge. The museum houses the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the America. Jean Nouvel’s architecture of the building is often deals with urban field. The…
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TATE MODERN EXTENSION: LONDON
The bankside turbin power station was converted into a national art gallery and public place in 1995, which has set an example of readaptive use of industrial architectural heritage in the time of de-industrialization of cities. The setting of the place at bank of Thames also has perhaps shaped its popularity as being most popular…
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ROCA MUSEUM-LONDON: ZAHA HADID
The world of art has seen significant development in art domain during early 1900. The initial period led by Henry Matisse, attempted to abandon any attempt at descriptive, naturalist use of colour and form while Picasso and Braque paved the way non-euclidean means of representing space and form. The abstract and non-objective works attempted to free the art…
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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 has few blocks modified randomly and few are added too much of the desire to retain old character. The cacophony of resultant architecture of old fabric is a not far…
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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 criticism and its responsibilities. It can take various forms and finds its treacherous escape from its representational responsibilities. The most didactic forms of cultural manifestation becomes most material & subservient expression of product. Architecture oscillates between…
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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 to absorb by new means in conversation with global imperatives. It is difficult to comment on aspiration of any such endeavor but its very approach that designer solemnly aspired to…
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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 momentum from global forces and aspiration. The priority that one exercise depends on various traits that shapes individual and our cultural aspiration. The momentum that modernism exerted on globalism resulted…
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ARCHITECTURE & FASHION DESIGN
All design disciplines are art form & have few things in common. However there is a difference between architecture & other design discipline is that it has stronger representational demand than rest. As one move away from architecture, art, literature, the representation becomes less dense or may not exist. The recent jury of third year…
