Parallel Projections Exported: Competition brief for G-Sen Trophy 2016-'17 In...
Parallel Projections as a theme for this year‘s NASA, has the potential to explore ideas of very diverse qualities. Parallel projections, in the architectural parlance, refer to plans, sections,...
View ArticleZNDC 2017: Communal Design - The Third Wave In Zonal NASA Convention , Edited...
The initiative taken by the youth of any country can ultimately define the near and far future of that country. The more aware the youth, the more the chances are that administration will take notice....
View ArticleDesign for Change: Competition brief for trophy sponsored by DHFL (Mumbai)...
Design for Change – a design ideas competitionDHFL Changing Lives Foundation Trophy I 2017-18Anganwadis or courtyard centres are established as a part of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)...
View ArticleG-Sen Trophy design briefs, and competition outlines for National Association...
The briefs explore a variety of topics: the misuse of the ‘commons’ or shared spaces; gender insensitivity; the lack of inclusive spaces for the physically and socially disadvantaged; and the problem...
View ArticleChandavarkar, Prem, Ravindra Punde, Prasad Shetty, Manish Gulati, Biju...
A panel discussion held at the annual National Association of Students of Architecture (India) event in Kochi on 31st January 2018. The idea was to first have a closed-door workshop among a small group...
View ArticleDong, Fu, and Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi. Sales office extension, Chungchun Vanke....
The Changchun Vanke Jade Academy is a completed residential project that the client took over to transform and is located in an open new urban area on the west bank of Bayi Reservoir in the south of...
View ArticleDing, Guanghui, and Charlie Q. L. Xue. "China's architectural aid: Exporting...
China's architectural exports to less-developed countries, such as conference halls, government offices, hospitals, institutional headquarters, schools, stadia and theatres, have played a special role...
View ArticlePatel, Shirish B.. "Draft Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Plan 2016–36:...
As India urbanises, every city and town should brace itself for growth. Each such city or town will look for precedents in the country and planning models to emulate. One such will inevitably be...
View ArticlePatel, Shirish B.. "Decline of the Civil Engineering Profession in India: Why...
The coal secretary recently blamed the "5Cs"– Central Vigilance Commission, Central Information Commission, Central Bureau of Investigation, Comptroller and Auditor General and the courts–for...
View ArticlePatel, Shirish B.. "Assignment Delivered, Accountability Nil: Housing for All...
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, a central government scheme of subsidies for low-income housing, is singularly unimaginative and poorly thought-through. It is unlikely to deliver worthwhile results....
View ArticlePatel, Shirish B.. "Community Land Reserves." Economic and Political Weekly...
Community Land Reserves (called Community Land Trusts in the US) have been in existence around the world for over 40 years. They are non-profit organisations with a mission to provide affordable...
View ArticlePatel, Shirish B.. "When Planning Becomes a Ritual." Economic and Political...
The debate over Mumbai's Development Plan 2034 has exposed the fault lines in the urban planning process. Apart from the problems posed by multiple autonomous agencies and a state government that has...
View ArticlePatel, Shirish B.. "Balkanisation of Urban Planning." Economic and Political...
The Maharashtra government does not seem to be serious about urban planning. The development plan is a meaningless exercise in accordance with a law that is 50 years out of date. The current situation...
View ArticleChandavarkar, Prem. Musings on Architecture and Urbanism. Bengaluru, 2018.
I write for two reasons, one personal and the other public. The personal reason is one must always indulge in some activity that resists and critiques one’s practice, else practice will degenerate to...
View ArticleSingh, Lokesh, Dragan Strunjas, Manish Gulati, Nishita Mohta, Madhav Raman,...
1Kanye West, the ConcertLokesh Singh2See! how it fits.Dragan Strunjas3Hall of Nations needs a Goan vacation
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