LET'S PARTNER
Architect Steven Holl responds to wide-ranging questions on his work and other interests in an exclusive interview with Sarita Vijayan, Editorial & Brand Director, Indian Architect & Builder

CURRENT
Latest in architectural exhibitions, news and competitions.

PRODUCTS
Innovative designer products from across the world.

POST-EVENT
STEEL nVISION
Mavens of steel unite to discuss the potentials of materials under the patronage of Ispat Industries Limited.

Smart Geometry
Smart Geometry is about parametric design tools and consequential manufacturing technology paving way to new forms of architectural and structural expression that are radically changing the built environment.


CONSTRUCTION BRIEF
Future Architecture
The writer takes us to two different competition winning projects - one an international airport terminal by Massimiliano Fuksas, and other, a competition winning entry for the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum by Zaha Hadid displaying today points towards a future architectural language.

BOOK REVIEW
Element
The author presents the designer/builder's mental log-book and traces notions of deeper patterns that emerge from livescapes. He, in this book, asks the reader to 'Move from meditation to material and join external chaos, force, construct-facts of the body to pattern, beauty, order, interior - thought on spirits through both, criterion circles.

Temple of Architecture
The book sets in an effective example of how the history of architecture could be studied and inferred, understood and applied, taught and learnt, both from the formal and stylistic point of view


TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY Architecture & Optical Hues
A group of London-based designers generate the Project 08 (Optical Reactive) which reflects the transition of optical technology in architecture.

HONOURS
A Dimension of Sequences
Jean Nouvel, the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2008 has broken the aesthetic of modernism and post-modernism to create a stylistic language all his own. The writer walks us through this in his 'A Dimension of Sequences'.

ARCHITECTURE
Tectonic Encounters
The work of Mumbai based Design Cooperative (DCOOP) architects explore how architectural practice today is a role play between shifting economies and the construction industry, while negotiating the classical concerns of form and aesthetics.

Concocting the Traditional Contemporary
Diversions from their pre-defined statistics are always welcomed. Sheetal S. Patil and Sachin K. Patil from Manthan Architects, with their simple plan and form coupled with the tryst of assorted materials and an emerging sense of balance between the old and the new show this in their creativity.


INTERNATIONAL
White Space
Makato Yamaguchi illustrates how a bizarre client brief has interpreted resulting in a beautiful fluid form structure in their recent project 'House in Komae'.

One Building, One Detail
The writer narrates how ONL controls the complex geometry and the engineering of double-curved surfaces and the supportive construction and makes use of fully parametric modelling programs to develop a new approach to parametric architectural and constructive detailing.

COLUMNS

CULTURE COUNTS
Situating Heritage within a Development Context
Heritage Conservation, has moved beyond physical intervention for preservation to a much larger process subsuming academic research and inquiry as well as policy making and planning for sustainability. Dr. Yaaminey Mubayi shares her views in this tri-dialogue column.


HUMANITIES
An Aboriginal Perspective
Dr. Steffen Lehmann shares his finding on the aboriginals in Palm Island to Queensland and his long-term planning concepts direct attention to a larger context of the growing in his story.


TRIBUTE
Le-Corbusier - Polemical, Poetical and Existential
Prof. Jaimini Mehta traces a masters' legacy four decades after he has passed away. His article in an expanded version of a brief presentation made by the author at a seminar held on the occasion of the exhibition 'Le Corbusier, From Marseilles to Chandigarh", curated by Foundation Le Corbusier, Paris and held in Delhi, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad.


NOTHING CONCRETE
This slumber is not good for us
The writer addresses the issue of the countrywide confusion caused by the National Aptitude Test in Architecture.