Enabling Living Together

An interview with Gaëlle Hamonic and Jean-Christophe Masson

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

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

High-Tech Collective Tools

Five projects between high-tech geometric fabrication and 3D printing

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

The Emblem Of Sprawl

Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival, Indio, California

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

The Future, From Cape Town

Discussion - Triggering creative courage From ideas to reality Accessible design

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

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

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

Compositions Of Memory

We take a photographic journey through Virasat-e-Khalsa Memorial in Chandigarh, designed by Moshe Safdie Architects; witnessing the composition of colossal forms and the various affective moments that manifest between these forms making the complex, ultimately, poetic. The multiplicity of scales across architectural elements and compositions invokes the simultaneous silence and turbulence of memories, enigmatically, throughout this building complex.

In The Name Of Housing

A recently published study on the circumstances surrounding the trope of housing in Mumbai attempts to document, probe, and represent the various housing typologies in the city, simultaneously analysing the urgent questions of space organisation, infrastructure, and the community.

Francisco Mangado Congress Centre, Palma De Mallorca

An imposing building facing the sea highlights the Spanish architect’s capacity to relate to a large scale site, while devoting great care and intensity to the interiors

India And The Life Of An Architect

A review of the recently published book on a key figure in Modern architecture in India, A.P Kanvinde, dwells upon what we can learn about architecture and India through the biography of an architect.

Spaces Of Belonging

A selection of photographs of a house nestled in an Art Deco-style building in a leafy by-lane in Mumbai brings forth the vividly tactile and spatial qualities that go beyond a vacuous built environment and focuses instead on the life that inhabits the space

Marco Zanuso Press House, Lydenburg, South Africa

In the 1970s the Milanese architect designed a house in South Africa. Recently rediscovered, it is still relevant with its sensitive yet radical approach. The design takes to an extreme Zanuso’s research into an idea of the home fixed thirty years ago in the pages of Domus and still valid

The Beautiful Factory

In 100 archive pictures on display in Settimo Torinese, the home of its most innovative factory complex, Pirelli tells the story of a business culture reminiscent of Olivetti’s “industrial humanism” and how it remains fundamental to the creation of new opportunities for development.

038 Parma

Strolling along Via al Duomo, you come, right in the middle of the street that becomes a square, upon the solid mass of the Baptistery, part of which lies outside the Roman city’s boundary.

The State Of Housing In India

An introductory seminar on the The State of Housing in India was held with an intent to create a collective dialogue regarding the proposed exhibition on the same subject, and to facilitate a conversation within the community of professionals and citizens at large. The seminar attempted to look at housing and its relationship with urbanisation, and by extension, its relationship to livelihood and amenities, which are otherwise unfortunately overlooked.

The Art Of Subterfuge: Slipping Past Borders

Artist Shilpa Gupta’s recently concluded solo exhibition Drawing in the Dark alludes to clandestine movements and practices in borderlands, and to the metaphor of the line or threshold that links several of her works. The show is part of Gupta’s ongoing investigation into interrelations between structures, specifically those of the state and the individual, and their rescaling as encountered at, what is both frontier and periphery.

The Stacked House

Le Corbusier’s immeuble-villas; the stacked houses studied by Diotallevi and Marescotti; and the habitat marocain in Casablanca by Georges Candilis/AtBat Afrique are three modernist references examined by Giorgio Peghin as a typology still of interest today.

Wang Hui - The Five Dragons Temple, Ruicheng City, Cina

This exemplary architectural and landscape regeneration project has restored worth to China’s oldest surviving Taoist temple in a programme to renovate and conserve the historic site executed with the adoption of traditional building methods and in a perfect balance of nature, expertise, history and innovation.

Column, Sculpture, Wall

Paying homage to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 30 years after the reconstruction of his Pavilion, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona organised a symposium presenting the latest research on the German master. We publish an extract from a talk by Fritz Neumeyer at the beginning of the study days.

Finding The City

A tactile narrative explores how guidebooks for Mumbai have transformed over the years, and traces the kind of users they were perhaps meant to be for

030 turin

in search of a global project

in the english countryside outside sheffield, the collective universal everything operates under the guidance of its founder and creative director matt pyke. this versatile graphic designer tells us about his way of combining digital art, graphics and architecture, and how communication and imagery bind with architectural surfaces to create engrossing atmospheres that are sometimes interactive.

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.

Shanghai

Shanghai is a legendary construction miracle among modern cities in China and the Far East. It was from Shanghai that China, as an ancient and traditional agricultural civilisation, began to move towards the ocean, towards the world.