Tag: HISTORY & THEORY
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Cultural Resilience of Urban Form:
The thesis tries to establish the need to Retain, Repair, Reuse or Redevelop historic built forms by categorizing them into high-resilient and low-resilient zones to avoid the homogeneity of urban form in the historic native town of Mumbai.
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REFLECTIVE TEXT & ARCHITECTURAL PARADIGM
The history of built architecture has produced tremendous amount of knowledge, validating and criticizing their existence, however the need to push such knowledge within the multi-discipline terrain for understanding and locating inter-relationship is equally important and valid one. Architectural theory has representational and didactic responsibility especially when the contemporary architecture is being subjected to cultural…
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METAPHORS AND MODERNITY: HOUSES
Houses have always remained as theoretical excursions medium to set new cannons for contemporary Architecture. The house has been re-invented number of times as one scan through the history of architecture. The act of re-invention of the house is perhaps a method of deactivating the dogmatic conditions with fresher metaphor towards contemporary life. The imagination…
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Composition of Urban Theory
The article attempts to delineate the main ideas and methods of urban theories, that have influenced urban research, academics and practice.
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REPRESENTING MEASURE DRAWINGS
The act of making drawings is central to architectural thinking. If one looks back into the renaissance history, the invention of perspective has a tremendous impact on the conceptualization of anthropocentric architecture. The renaissance painter also produced the art form that resonated with the spirit of the time. The drawings are an interface between imagined…
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ACADEMICS OF TECHNOLOGY
ACADEMICS OF TECHNOLOGY: The word “academics” and “technology”, if independently dissected through epistemological perspective, perhaps the manifestation that emerges out could be compartmentalized and self-contained, however the academics of technology together as a singular entity allows to resonates paradigmatic shift from the technology as means to technology as a way, it allows to bring about…
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ARCHITECTURAL THINKING
There are some simple terms that we often use to frame the pedagogy for architectural education. The simple terms are sometimes confused with many other terms. The elaborative work on architectural theory across the time have propagated some of the larger concerns emanating from some simple ideas and words. The thought and trouble with such…
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ARCHITECTURAL THESIS: Practice of Academics or Academics of Practice
Studio @ KRVIA Last several decades one could see the altered responsibilities of architecture towards itself, cities, environment and other interdisciplinary dimensions. This has perhaps resulted into need of re-examination of the academics in contemporary times. Within the academics it is important to understand the role and scope of the architectural thesis (design desertion) as…
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Positioning Architectural Theory
The article attempts to articulate the theoretical discourse in Architecture with epistemological understanding.
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UDVADA: COMMUNITY | WORSHIP
Lots have been written on Udvada town, its importance as Parsi community town, its history and most importantly the worship place. However the recent attempt to create heritage awareness of the town has resulted positive responses from community and historians. The town is an agglomeration of various architectural typologies (by functions), creating unique experience and bringing sense…
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ARCHITECTURE AND KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE
SOURCE: ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM-2015FACULTY: MANOJ PARMAR- KRVIA
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RE-READING MANFREDO TAFURI: ARCHITECTURE AND UTOPIA
READING “ARCHITECTURE AND UTOPIA” MANFREDO TAFURI VIII: Preface The relationship between the historical avant-garde movements and the metropolis, the relationships between intellectual work and capitalist development, research on sociology and planning practices, on social-democrat administration of the city , on architecture of America cities and on building cycle, have been the object of collaborative program…
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OBJECTIVE DOMESTICITY
CARTESIANISM: OBJECTIVE DOMESTICITY Intellectual revolution and theoretical objectivity in contemporary architecture. “Historical & Comparative” The French philosopher Rene Descartes contributed to the doctrine and principle of historical objectivity compounding to the theoretical foundation of “Cartesianism” through his treatise “Discourse of Method”. It began to emphasize…
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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 formative circumstances. The thought or an idea that hinges on the clean breath of cultural studies and able to set the trajectory beyond the range of secular pattern of thought…
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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 its Thursday market. The street double sided shopping stretch iced with informal shopping outside. After construction of sky-walk it offers four layer of informal shopping, almost making the parody of its…
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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 myths history of conventional myth 490 BC HERODOTUS history on persian war moral & didactive causes, courses, liberation of greek view results of war from persians need for history to…
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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 based on the voluntary association of producers in units known as “PHALANX”. Fourier earned a high reputation as great social thinker. Fourier’s mind showed high degree of imaginative literary ideas…
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PHILOSOPHY OF MISERY Josheph Proudhon, a french moralist & social reformer, voiced in his book ” Philosophy of Misery” the typical middle class objection to the concetration of economic power and consequent difficulties. He advocated the abolition of private property law for communal or mutual benifit association. The publication had background in the year (1865)…
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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 moved further by inducting idealism through powefull weapon of dialectic. However there concern about moral & natural order which might have been overlooked by idealist. He further enlarged the concept…
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Matrix and Metaphysics
“The relation of Self & context establishes structure of epistemology which builds relation & dialogue. The inevitable expression is in the confinements of coscience, ethics & moral principal. Further it opens up for critical thinnking of dialectic & philosophic in nature. The dilemma of this matrix preoblematises the manifestation”
