Art
Domus India
Revisiting A Royal Past
Located in the Kodagu district of Karnataka, the Nalknad Palace was built in the late 18th century during the reign of King Vira Rajendra, perhaps as a place of refuge for him as he was then fighting Tipu Sultan. The two-storeyed structure is replete with pavilions, intricately carved wooden pillars, and a host of paintings across several rooms. While it is not yet known how long ago the paintings were made, they depict scenes from the court and images of royalty.
6 min |
Febuary 2019
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John Berger's ‘Bento's Sketchbook'
While a plethora of letters and writings of the 17th-century Dutch philiosopher Bento de Spinoza were published over the years, his sketchbook was never found. When critic and writer John Berger was gifted a blank drawing book, he promptly dubbed it as Bento’s Sketchbook, using the imaginative space to explore the process of drawing, storytelling, and Spinoza’s life
5 min |
Febuary 2019
Domus India
From Railways To Ateliers
A cultural platform experimenting with new approaches to producing and exhibiting, the LUMA Arles workshop for artists, curators, scientists and designers is also open to the public
3 min |
Febuary 2019
Domus India
Essay Kinetic City
Architect and pedagogue Rahul Mehrotra dwells upon how by restructuring the city-making process, the 'Kinetic' and 'Static' Cities can be intertwined beyond the physical and can engage the inhabitants of the city
7 min |
Febuary 2019
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The Public Knowledge Space OMA, Qatar National Library, Doha
Simplicity and complexity Gulf states and the public realm Enclosed urban spaces
4 min |
Febuary 2019
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The Walkable Roof Hong Kong West Kowloon Station
One of the East’s most important infrastructure nodes, designed by Andrew Bromberg at Aedas
1 min |
Febuary 2019
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How Letters Mark The City
Signs are the markers of a city and need to be in the place they are marking
9 min |
Febuary 2019
Domus India
Indian Aesthetics Museum In Transit
Spread across the environs of Terminal 2 of Mumbai’s international airport, the Jaya He Museum houses a diverse collection of art and installations, blending it with various aspects of the architecture, design and culture, thus creating a unique experience for those transiting through this large space
5 min |
June-July 2019
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Tribute I M Pei (1917-2019)
Kenneth Frampton, in his book Modern Architecture: A Critical History, in chapter four (Place, Production & Scenography, International Theory and Practice since 1962), discussed the imaginative interpretation of Fuller’s project on geodesic domes, Kikutake on Marine City, Isozaki on the Gunma Prefectural Museum, Rogers & Pianos’ Pompidou Center and Foster + Partners’ Hong Kong-Shanghai Bank.
1 min |
June-July 2019
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A Moment Of Pause
A compilation of essays by American poet Mary Oliver brims with her meditations on reading, on the natural world, the idea of home, and her creative endeavours
6 min |
June-July 2019
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The Observer
In Taipei, OMA experiments with a new type of centre for the performing arts.
2 min |
June-July 2019
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the medium is architecture
with a simple plan that accommodates all the elements and symbolism of temple architecture, a temple complex uses a functional and relatable design programme to create a socio-cultural space that is now an integral part of the everyday village-life. the design draws much from its surroundings, and its users, who, with a severe sense of clarity of what they expected, helped to further nuance the design.
6 min |
august 2016
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Design Debates India
An ongoing exhibition that marks 100 years of the Bauhaus comprises a significant discourse on the ‘India story’, indicating how another idea of modernity, probably unique to a colonial encounter in the Indian subcontinent, with a history unfolding much on its own terms, was shaping a story of design and culture in another part of the world as the Bauhaus unfolded in Europe.
10+ min |
August 2018
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Difficult Relationships Between Maps And The Landscape
The landscape is everything a map fails to grasp of the world and to express in terms of the separation between subject and object, placing some distance between them.
6 min |
August 2018
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How To Design Lightscapes
Can light transform a space into a place? We asked Elettra Bordonaro, the lighting designer who led the three-year research programme Social Lightscapes Workshop Series, created to integrate social and behavioural sciences and lighting design.
2 min |
August 2018
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The Fabric Of A City
A recent book on the city of Lucknow focuses on the idea of a place not only as a geographical territory but as a part of people’s social lives, their identity, memory, and a sense of belonging and pride, each contributing to place-making in specific ways
8 min |
August 2018
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A Mining Town The Wild West Where Women Rule The Roost
A mining village in the New Mexico desert provides the backdrop for seven episodes of Godless and is the largest Western film-set ever built
1 min |
August 2018
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What Landscape Will Live On, After Us?
Antigone is Tacita Dean’s latest experimental film, a reflection on the natural and cultural landscape.
3 min |
August 2018
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Children Are Tomorrow's Urban Planners Future Milan: Workshop With Winy Maas
On 26 November 2018, Winy Maas presented his project for Domus ’19 at a state school in Milan, following a workshop that involved the students, who imagined the city of the future. Starting from their neighbourhood, they gave shape to their ideas and wrote a letter to the Mayor to have their proposals realised
2 min |
Febuary 2019
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Tribute Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019)
With his insistence on intellectual rigour went an intellectual generosity, an expansiveness of intellectual scope, and a great ability to inspire.
10+ min |
June-July 2019
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Indian Aesthetics - The Maidoms Of Charaideo In Assam
Massive brick-vaulted hemispherical structures covered by an earthen mound and topped with an open brick pavilion, the maidoms , scattered across Assam, tell a fascinating history of the burial of the dead royals
5 min |
April 2019
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Books Celestial Stories
An illustrated narrative about an officer who lives on the moon, Mooncop — filled with action and adventure — also dwells upon the tropes of loneliness, pathos, and the mundane
5 min |
April 2019
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A New World Map
Through the voices of the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman and 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg at the Davos Forum, a new generation is crying out for action.
2 min |
April 2019
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Instant Megalopolis
Elastic urban design Superbly instantaneous Reusable infrastructure Urban metabolism
5 min |
April 2019
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V&A Dundee Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma’s architecture creates relationships, flows and circulation. The V&A Dundee acts like a gate between river and city
5 min |
November 2018
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Sen Kapadia Architect NID Post-Graduate Campus Gandhinagar, Gujarat
A project from the office of architect Sen Kapadia — a campus for an academic institution in Gandhinagar — aims for monumentality through enduring spatial values rather than exaggerated scale.
6 min |
November 2018
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A Confluence Of Cultures
Spanning a period of over a million years, a recently concluded exhibition comprising over 200 invaluable objects chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent against the backdrop of what was happening concurrently across the world. It encapsulates the idea of syncretism in the many stories shared by India with other nations through the predominant tropes of early civilisations, trade, faith, empires, and the quest for freedom, among others.
5 min |
November 2018
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Sen Kapadia Architect Bhavsar House Ahmedabad, Gujarat
The role of the architect as an artist and designer is very firmly yet weightlessly articulated in the almost sculptural design of a house.
1 min |
November 2018
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Robin Hood Gardens Disappearing Worlds
The film by Urban-Think Tank reminds us that the Smithsons’s ideas about the ties between buildings, users and architectural sites no longer have the value they once did.
3 min |
November 2018
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Le Corbusier's Journey To The East
Taking stock of a collection of letters, columns, and notes, a book on Le Corbusier records the iconic architect’s observations during his many peregrinations.
5 min |