Architecture
Domus India
Enabling Living Together
An interview with Gaëlle Hamonic and Jean-Christophe Masson
5 min |
October 2019
Domus India
Books-The Continuing Relevance Of Gandhi
A compilation of eight essays examines how Gandhi anticipated problems beyond India's independence, perhaps giving us a template to address a wide range of issues. The writing juxtaposesthe past with the present, analysing Gandhi for his ideology and impact
6 min |
October 2019
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A Tryst With Contemporary India
Charles Correa’s design for the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya at Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad is that one rare occasion where architecture is cleansed of ego — it neither indulges in iconicity nor in symbolism; it is cleansed architecture
5 min |
October 2019
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Art And Architecture - Urbanism Is Here, It's Just Not Evenly Spread
Exploring urban continuity and transformation through his work, as both complement and counter to his experience building in contemporary India, Martand Khosla has developed, over time — through the material and substance of his questions for architecture and architects — a rich, robust artistic practice. He combines various forms of investigation and reflection, with his politics of work extending from the architect’s studio, through the library, the mind walking around the city, and holding conversations within his artist studio
5 min |
September 2019
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High-Tech Collective Tools
Five projects between high-tech geometric fabrication and 3D printing
5 min |
September 2019
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Indian Aesthetics - The Rock-Cut Caves Of Kolvi In Rajasthan
Located in the Jhalawar district of Rajasthan, the Kolvi Caves are cut around the entire circumference of a hillock. Once perhaps used by members of the monastic community for prayer or meditation, this complex of Buddhist rock-cut caves remains uninhabited today; only a deafening silence greets visitors
4 min |
September 2019
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The Emblem Of Sprawl
Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival, Indio, California
5 min |
September 2019
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Photo Essay Foy Nissen's Bombay
A recent exhibition brought together over fifty years of work by Foy Nissen, a lensmen of Danish descent who combined a keen sensibility with a quiet discipline. While he largely chronicled sights and monuments in Bombay, he also travelled to many parts of the country and beyond, from Goa and Madhya Pradesh to Rajasthan, Sikkim and Nepal
5 min |
September 2019
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The Future, From Cape Town
Discussion - Triggering creative courage From ideas to reality Accessible design
6 min |
September 2019
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Art And Design - We Colonised The Moon
As 2019 marks fifty years since man first landed on the moon, we look at a collaboration between a fine-art printmaker and a new-media artist and the creation of a project that embodies a child-like wonder of the universe. Employing a range of DIY production techniques, their ‘Moon-project’ is rooted in absurdism, where installations and inquiries are characterised by slogans and catchphrases
9 min |
September 2019
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Books Monsoon Feelings
Brimming with evocative essays, a volume explores the history of emotions in the monsoon in South Asia since the twelfth century through the many tropes of poetry, paintings, architecture, cinema, landscape, festivals, music and medicine
6 min |
September 2019
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A New Beginning Atlas For The End Of The World
The critical nexus the Atlas for the End of the World addresses is the global tension between food production, urbanisation and biodiversity
5 min |
Febuary 2019
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Koodaaram: The Pavilion At Cabral Yard, Kochi
During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, an open structure inspired by the traditional Koothambalam served as a space for performance and lectures as well as one for conversations, to exchange thoughts and ideas, and engage in debate and discussion.
7 min |
May 2019
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Long, Sunlit Days
As summer sets in, far too firmly, with long, hot days and not enough respite after sunset, I turn the air-conditioning on, seeking solace in Scandinavian summers, with Karl Ove Knausgaard’s fourth installment of the season’s quartet: Summer.
6 min |
May 2019
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In This Room, The Poems Come And Go
Poems by Sarabjeet Garcha Section curated by Ranjit Hoskote Photographs by Chirodeep Chaudhuri
5 min |
May 2019
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Humour, Please
Claude Cormier is a Canadian landscape architect who intervenes in cities with a precise intent: to create beauty
4 min |
May 2019
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Room For Diversity
Discrimination and inequalities should be out!
3 min |
May 2019
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Tribute
Darryl D’Monte (1944-2019)
4 min |
May 2019
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The Stone- Eating Worm
“Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the shadow.” Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Hollow Men, 1925
3 min |
August 2018
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Sculpting Temple Design
Believed to have been constructed sometime between the 11th and 12th centuries CE by the then reigning Parmar and Chauhan rulers, the temples of Kiradu are located remotely, west of Barmer in Rajasthan. Known as the ‘Khajuraho of Rajasthan’ by the locals — and currently in a state of ruin owing to deliberate destruction and the ravages of nature — they now stand mute testimony to the passage of time, to the rise and fall of dynasties and their fortunes
6 min |
August 2018
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A Secret Agent In Bangkok
Six wooden huts stand in the heart of the Thai capital. Tracked down in the 1950s and 1960s by Jim Thompson on his travels, they were dismantled and constructed to try and preserve what was being lost.
2 min |
August 2018
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Hudson Yards West Side New York City USA ​​​​​​​
A conversation with Justin Davidson
7 min |
August 2018
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Renzo Piano Building Workshop GES-2, V-A-C Foundation Moscow
The institution devoted to contemporary Russian art has commissioned the Renzo Piano Building Workshop to convert a two-hectare urban site into a cultural centre. GES-2 is now an open-air building site. Forty years after the inauguration of Centre Georges Pompidou, how does one design a “non-museum”?
5 min |
October 2018
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Steven Holl Let's Start From Music
Architecture, like music, surrounds and engulfs us: it's an immersive, engrossing experience. A conversation between Steven Holl and Michele De Lucchi.
3 min |
October 2018
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Life On Earth...
The vivid shades of red and pink that signify the very vibrancy of life may come as a bit of a shock when seen in a cemetery... but then doesn’t a tomb or a grave also represent a life that once lived on earth? And isn’t it wonderful how design sensibilities inspired memory and life on earth? The unassuming Roman Catholic Cemetery in Agra — believed to be the oldest burial ground in North India — dates back to the mid-1500s. While the land was initially used by Armenian Christian traders to bury their dead, it later came to be used by the Portuguese, Italians, French, Germans, the Dutch and the English as well...
5 min |
January 2019
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Somaya And Kalappa Consultants Interwoven Walks...
The intimacy of architectural productions, the moments of creative explorations and industrial labour involved in the design and making of built environments is now explored and experienced at a new platform of creativity and production — the mode of the artist
6 min |
January 2019
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Abin Design Studio: The Contemporary Experience of Hybridity
The ornamental expression in the two projects from Abin Design Studio featured here is not a return of the ornament, nor is it nostalgic –— what one precisely means is that the manner in which the ornamental is carried out, and sits in some kind of discussion with the more modern language of the building plan and formal expression, there is a concern with hybridity, inconsistency, as well as equivocality that marks cultural experience today.
2 min |
February 2017
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Revolutionising Welfare
Giuseppe Guzzetti believes architecture and design have positive effects on people’s dignity. Fondazione Cariplo launches Cittàintorno, an urban regeneration programme
4 min |
May 2018
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Practice Of Principle
A few months ago we lost Hasmukh Patel, a senior architect in India, and as a mark of respect for his contribution to architecture and education, an exhibition of some of his works was organised at CEPT University where he once served as academic director. This exhibition — drawing on a book on his lifetime of work, published a few years ago — critically draws our attention to the ways in which architecture in modern India was practised. A certain view on architecture practice and modern aesthetics, values and forms of making has been constantly promoted in the few histories of modern architecture history in India, but some recent biographies now threaten to dislodge what we took for granted about architecture in post-Independence and modern India. This exhibition itself helps us realise a world of architecture design that actually shaped built environments for everyday life in a modernising India.
8 min |
May 2018
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The Worlds Within... What Is Found There?
An exhibition titled A World in the City themed around zoos and botanical gardens recently opened at the IFA Gallery in Stuttgart. The invited curator from India explored the theme and expanded it into a concept for the show in two ways – firstly, the colonial history of institutions such as world expositions, zoos, gardens and museums where these become sites for knowledge production about the world at large as we see it even today, as well as the imagination of a ‘public’ — the idea of a modern viewing-consuming audience; secondly – it explores our recent history of the hyper-relationship with nature through issues such as Sustainability, Veganism, nature trails, wildlife television channels, and so forth. The curator invited a set of seven works from four artists, as well as a collection of poems and essays from a poet to present in a subtle and nuanced way, the relationship that we share as humans and as a civilisation with nature, the world, and the cosmos
10+ min |