Shaw, Julia, and John Sutcliffe. "Ancient dams, settlement archaeology and...
A group of ancient dams (c. second—first century BC) was located during an archaeological study of the Sanchi area in central India. Comparison of reservoir volumes with estimated inflows suggests that...
View ArticleSutcliffe, John, Julia Shaw, and Emma Brown. "Historical water resources in...
The development of historical water resources in the South Asian subcontinent has been largely dependent on the hydrological background. The runoff patterns are derived from climate statistics and the...
View ArticleWedage, Oshan, Andrea Picin, James Blinkhorn, Katerina Douka, Siran...
Microliths–small, retouched, often-backed stone tools–are often interpreted to be the product of composite tools, including projectile weapons, and efficient hunting strategies by modern humans. In...
View ArticleChandavarkar, Prem. AMBASSADORS OF EXCELLENCE: A draft proposal for moving...
Architects based in India have not been able to respond effectively to recent events that have negatively impacted the public standing of the profession. This is reflected in two recent events that...
View ArticleJanu, Swati. "On-the-Go Settlements: Understanding Urban Informality Through...
This article investigates the digital networks within informal settlements in Delhi through an ethnographic and practice-based research methodology.1 By studying top-up and media consumption at the...
View ArticleMukherjee, Rahul. "Anticipating Ruinations: Ecologies of ‘Make Do’ and ‘Left...
This article examines sites of ruinations that include zones of radioactive decay, ‘illegal’ housing projects, electromagnetic emissions, and e-waste dismantling and metal extraction. These sites have...
View ArticleShubhayan M. Can’t we say NO to a project?. Sthapatya, 2019.
This project did hit us right where it needed to – in the glaring financial gaps. Nobody asked how good a designer you are, whether you are capable of redesigning the very seat of democracy of the...
View ArticleGhosh, Soumitro. Rbanms School Extension. Bangalore: Mathew and Ghosh...
A single classroom extension to a primary school for underprivileged children in Central Bangalore created an opportunity for making a room like a treehouse nestled between exiting trees so that it...
View ArticleWaraich, Saleema. "Locations of Longing: The Ruins of Old Lahore." Third Text...
Lahore's celebrated status as the seat of several legendary Muslim rulers and the cultural capital of Pakistan stands in sharp contrast to the dilapidated state of the city's historic Mughal monuments....
View ArticlePatel, Shirish B.. "Dharavi: Makeover or Takeover?" Economic and Political...
Dharavi in Mumbai exemplifies what is most ugly and what is most inspiring about slum life in a city. How should it be redeveloped to remove the ugliness and yet retain its community spirit,...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. Architects shocked by fees for Central Vista are a proof that...
If you are not an architect, the news story of central vista design project being awarded to a “Gujarat-based” firm for a fees of approximately 229.75 crore would play out differently for you,...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. Are architects, the defenders of Lutyens’ faith, aware of what...
As heated discussions about the central vista development project are now raging across art and architectural circles, I am getting more and more intrigued about the way Indian, or rather the elite...
View ArticleBhan, Ravindra. Site Development and Landscaping of ISCKON Temple. New Delhi:...
ISKCON TEMPLE is situated over a hill with the main temple block occupying the highest portion of the site. The three-acre site is surrounded by the buildings leaving the open area mainly in the...
View ArticleBhan, Ravindra. Architect's Statement In Site Development and Landscaping of...
"I think it is my honor to get associated with this project. God has given me a chance to do it."— Ravindra Bhan, landscape architectDesign ConceptISKCON TEMPLE is situated over a hill with the main...
View ArticleBhan, Ravindra. Mughal Sheraton Hotel. Ravindra Bhan and Associates, 1976.
This project by the A.R.C.O.P. Design group won the first Aga Khan Award for excellence in Architecture in 1980. The design team consisted of Ramesh Khosla, Ranjit Sibikhi, Ajoy Chowdhury and Ravindra...
View ArticleGogoi, Ranjan, Deepak Gupta, and Aniruddha Bose. CIVIL APPEAL NO. 364 OF...
REPORTABLEIN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTIONCIVIL APPEAL NO. 364 OF 2005All India Council for Technical Education .... Appellant VersusShri Prince Shivaji Maratha Boarding...
View ArticleMishra, Arun, Vineet Saran, and M.R. Shah. Tata Housing Development Company...
REPORTABLE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 8398-8399 OF 2019 (ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NOS.2137521376 OF 2017) TATA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD. ..APPELLANT(S)...
View ArticleEndlaw, Rajiv Sahai. Sarin Memorial Legal Aid ... vs State Of Punjab & Ors....
* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: April 12,2017 + W.P.(C) 2924/2014 SARIN MEMORIAL LEGAL AID FOUNDATION ..... Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB & ORS. ..... Respondents +...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. Dear architects: Time to convert subjective social...
It is very likely that if you are reading this, you could be a proud owner of a grand, exclusive, Supreme Court ratified and enshrined under the mighty Architect Act 1972 title of an “architect” (which...
View ArticleAncient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act. Parliament of...
1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958.1[(2) It extends to the whole of India.](3) It shall come into...
View ArticleMahadevia, Darshini. "From Utopia to Pragmatism: The Paradoxes of Urban...
Urban policies in India have gone hand in hand with the macro-economic policies. Beginning with extensive State involvement in directing urbanisation on one hand and development patterns in the urban...
View ArticleShaw, Julia. "Religion, ‘nature’ and environmental ethics in ancient India:...
This paper assesses archaeology’s contribution to debates regarding the ecological focus of early Buddhism and Hinduism and its relevance to global environmentalism. Evidence for long-term...
View ArticleRobb, Peter. "Completing “Our Stock of Geography”, or an Object “Still More...
To facilitate & promote all enquiries which may be calculated to enlarge the boundaries of General Science is a Duty imposed on the British Government in India by its present exalted situation...
View ArticleTalwar, Sidhartha. National Police Memorial. New Delhi: Studio Lotus, 2014.
The site for the National Police Memorial (NPM) is located at the head of the Shanti Path Vista - the second such planned axis in New Delhi, the first being Rajpath which connects Raisina Hill with...
View ArticleChattopadhyay, Swati. "Introduction: the historical legacy of suburbs in...
The edges of Indian cities have become nebulous, their morphology uncertain. They appear to extend for miles in Mumbai and Kolkata as an ‘assorted chaos’ of middle-class residences, slums and bazaars,...
View ArticleSengupta, Tania. ’︁Minor’ Spaces in Officers’ Bungalows of Colonial Bengal In...
This chapter reflects the ‘minor’ spaces and ‘paraphernalia’ within bungalows in provincial Bengal, which were mostly dominated by large drawing rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms and home offices. Often...
View ArticleSengupta, Tania. "Living in the periphery: provinciality and domestic space...
This article focuses in detail on the domestic architecture of Indian town-dwellers within the context of provincial urbanisation in British colonial Bengal in the nineteenth century. It maps out the...
View ArticleSengupta, Tania. "Between country and city: fluid spaces of provincial...
By looking at the spatial cultures of nineteenth-century provincial administrative towns in colonial Bengal, this article problematizes notions of city, town or country and their relationships. It...
View ArticleStevenson, Emily Rose. "Home, Sweet Home: Women and the “Other Space” of...
This article explores colonial Indian postcards from the 1880s to the 1920s through the idiom of “imagined geographies,” as expressions of the relationship between the Othering of people and the...
View ArticleSengupta, Tania. "Between the Garden and the Bazaar: The Visions, Spaces and...
This article looks at the conception and experience of provincial urbanism in colonial Bengal during the nineteenth century. The specific sites of enquiry are ‘civil stations’, colonial administrative...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. Open letter, or rather SOS to the incoming president of...
Dear Sir,I have just discovered that a rare miracle has occurred, as the Council of Architecture (CoA) India has now a practising architect at the helm!!It is almost an anomaly for to see things going...
View ArticleAct 20 of 1972: Architects Act, 1972. New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Secretariat, 1972.
Architects Act, 19721 [Act 20 of 1972] [31st May, 1972] An Act to provide for the registration of architects and for matters connected therewith Be it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-third Year of...
View ArticleChandavarkar, Prem. "A Pedagogy-Centred Curriculum." New Design Ideas 3, no....
Disconnect between education and practice
View ArticleDengle, Narendra. "For relevance and beauty in architecture." New Design...
1. An alternative to the mechanized way of living The recent appeal by the students of architecture at the Architectural Associationin the UK for a change in the curriculum seems to indicate the...
View ArticleGanju, MN Ashish, and Narendra Dengle. The Discovery of Architecture: A...
The Discovery of Architecture - a contemporary treatise on ancient values and indigenous reality,by M N Ashish Ganju and Narendra Dengle, is an essay on the need for a new theoretical understanding of...
View ArticleKeswani, Kiran. "Urban design studio pedagogy: Thinking about informality."...
In the past, urban design teaching and practice have focused on the design of urban spaces as being the modulation of the physical aspects of the fabric while the complex social processes that...
View ArticleGanju, MN Ashish. "Our spiritual universe exists within the self. So, how do...
1. A dangerous idea of material progress That declaration by students to the Architectural Community “A Call for Curriculum Change” (Architecture Education Declares, 2019) is an important step in the...
View ArticleKhan, Smita, and Habeeb Khan. "Nemesis in the genesis: Reforming...
1. The global south and its characteristics
View ArticleShah, Kirtee. "Architecture practice and architecture education in India need...
1. The need for changeThe situation differs fundamentally in different places. The voices of dissent searching for alternatives to architectural education, even if the message sounds similar emerging...
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