Keswani, Kiran. "The contribution of building centres to low-cost housing in...
The author argues that the government's role could change from being the provider to becoming a facilitator. Progress in the Building Centre Programme in India has been slow and a three pronged policy...
View ArticleMastrucci, Alessio, and Narasimha D. Rao. "Bridging India’s housing gap:...
More than 60 million homes in India are unfit for decent living. Replacing this stock with decent housing will entail significant costs and increase energy consumption and related CO2 emissions due to...
View ArticleKeswani, Kiran. "The practice of tree worship and the territorial production...
In India, there are religious practices intersecting with the process of urbanization at various levels. This paper looks at the practice of tree worship which continues to be a part of everyday life...
View ArticleSingh, Shalini. "Urban Development and Tourism: Case of Lucknow, India."...
Despite the fact that India is essentially a rural society, the oriental charms of its cities are quite unique inasmuch as they are rich repositories of the country's heritage and culture. Alongside...
View ArticleSingh, Shalini. "A Study in Cultural Expressions of the Nawabs of Avadh."...
Secular India has witnessed a unique amalgam of different races & religions which has enriched her landscape with cultural heritage. Mughals and the Nawabs of Oudh have left memorable vestiges in...
View ArticleShaban, M. A., and O. Dikshit. "Improvement of classification in urban areas...
Investigations have been carried out for digital spectral and textural classification of an Indian urban environment using SPOT images with grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), grey level difference...
View ArticleKeswani, Kiran. "The logic of design: its role in understanding the...
The everyday life of a city can generate informality in urban space, particularly in emerging economies. Using the grounded theory approach, this paper looks at how urban space in a market precinct is...
View ArticleSarasvathy, Saras D., Suresh Bhagavatula, Sylvain Pierre Bureau, Rajalaxmi...
It is normal to associate informal economies with slums, poverty, illegitimacy and misery of one kind or another. But the world's informal economies also enable, create and offer aesthetics that make...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. RCC: A love marriage turning foul?. Ahmedabad: Serendipity:...
Since the monsoon has hit us, it has become a daily affair to read about news of fatal construction failures. A lot of buildings that have collapsed in rains appear to be made from the wonder material,...
View ArticleChandavarkar, Prem. "The Human Within the Architect." In A conclave on...
On 16 August 2019, I delivered the opening note of the Frame Conclave 2019 on the theme of “Modern Heritage”. It deals with the issue of disciplinary specialisation - as architects we tend to look at...
View ArticleChalasani, Madhusudhan, Mario Galiana Liras, Vamsi Krishna, Javier Ugarte...
The exhibition brings together selected projects from more than a decade of the practice of studio MADe. More than a dozen projects are presented through models and drawings, focusing on conceptual...
View Article16: The Sidewalk In In Search of Coherence: Selected works of Studio MADe....
The brief was to design a six-storey retail and entertainment complex overlooking the road connecting the city’s central business district to its continuously expanding periphery. The challenge was to...
View Article14: Engaging with change at the Karlsplatz In In Search of Coherence:...
For us, this project is as much about taking the opportunity to define the diffused limits of the Glacis more clearly – and to reposition the Karlskirche as an important component of the square – as it...
View Article13: Central Mosque Prishtina In In Search of Coherence: Selected works of...
The proposal deploys the most fundamental principle of the Islamic tradition, namely the sense of unity, to create a new city-level place of worship that can accommodate daily users and a large Friday...
View Article12: School in a Park In In Search of Coherence: Selected works of Studio...
The intent: How can an educational space nurture character? Its domestic character, inspired by the houses in this region, and sequences of streets and intimate gardens, might lend the children a sense...
View Article11: Extension of National Museum In In Search of Coherence: Selected works of...
Creating a new public link: Our proposal seeks to create a new outdoor public axis from east to west in the urbanscape so that visitors can enjoy the park next to the existing museum building with an...
View Article10: Place of Passage In In Search of Coherence: Selected works of Studio...
After driving for miles through dense forests, she is surprised to arrive at a stark clearing. Pausing, she parks her car under a human made grove of pine trees. She sees something defining the...
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