BOOK REVIEW
Re-constructing the Renaissance City
The Krier Kohl Architects in their book Town Spaces write on Contemporary interpretations in Traditional Urbanism .
TECHNOLOGY
Smart Cloud of Points
Reviewing ParaCloud, the new architectural software invented by Dr Eyal Nir.
CONSTRUCTION BRIEF
'GIFT'
Gujarat, and its climb to become the 'economic capital of India'. A brief on the 500 acre Gujarat International Financial Tec-City (Gift), project, the Global Financial Services hub of Gujarat State.
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ARCHITECTURE
The Colours of Life
Featuring Goa-based architect Rahul Deshpande's work which has a touch of contextual flavour of convergence of creativity and efficient infrastructure.
Validating Architectural Practice
Prem chandavarakar, in his essay talks in detail about not only why peer review is an important method of validation but also on its core competence.
Architecture Life
An outlook on design innovations and assessing material intelligence through a
series of prototypical furniture pieces.
Alchemy Of Design
Kaiwan Mehta reviews Chandavarkar and Thacker's projects and highlights two strong issues- 'Practice' and 'Criticism'.
INTERNATIONAL
Ecological Archidose
Grand Rapids Art Museum - a public monument with an extraordinary combination of vision, knowledge and experience.
FOCUS INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Rethinking the Domestic
S+PS Architecture discuss the four design methods that can help evolve a better interior through their discussion on unity, openness, transparency.
Rectilinear form with a Twist
VilLA NM, a flat roofed, taut, planar house in up-state New York by UN Studio evokes its predecessors and pushed their architectonic qualities into a new realm.
Landscape... of the Interior
'There is no differentiation between the design of an interior environment and the architectural skin', Gayathri and Namith Architects, in their own office construction, demonstrate the combination of nature and interiors.
Core Values
Erick Van Egeraat Associated Architects describes in detail their design of a trio of light cores.
Interior Urbanism
Mumbai- ased Mobile offices (MO-OF) explore the relationship between interior Design and Urbanism
Loss and Continuity
Zurich based architects EM2N-Mathias Muller and Daniel Niggli redirects the imagination of an archive through their architectural expressions.
LOCUS
The Tool House City
Rahul Srivastave and Matias Echanove explore the possibility of a future India with a live work space less dehumanising.
CULTURE COUNTS
Values
Values and cultural values-An essay on what will define a nation’s culture.
PlANNING
On the Urban Scale
Dr. Steffen Lehmann addresses the environmental sustainability with the help of two urban studio projects.
NOTHING CONCRETE
One Lakh Car... One Lakh House
The breathtaking announcement of a nano-car and its challenge for the entrepreneur. Shankar Narayan also questions why not a one lakh house too?
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