Contents
Current
An update on exhibitions, competitions and news happening in the AEC(Architecture/Engineering/Construction) industry.
Product & Product launch
Features, new and innovative products available and launched in India and across the world.
Book Review
Elements of Space Making
An attempt at geometric deconstruction of architecture that tries to understand the perception and experiential aspects.
Culture Counts
Committing to Conventions
Amita Baig emphasises that preservation of heritage monuments and sites are not the government’s concern solely but a responsibility of the people too.
City Wise
Child’s Play ?
Malini Krishnankutty laments the lack of open space for children in the city.
International
If I see men, I can’t see angels
The edifice, designed by Rem Koolhaas, though not a skyscraper or a female convent, combines features of both – a hybrid manifestation of architecture metaphor of gender.
India IUSP
Bringing Sita and Gita together…
Swati Ramanthan contends that integrating policy planning and spatial planning with official involvement is key to balanced development.
Notions of a Nation
A design Competition to create an architectural and engineering Symbol for Contemporary India
- Kirisagar
- BollarBipul Das
- Vinish Desai
- himanshi Upadhyay
- Nuru Karim
- Mayank Leonker
- Arun Nalapat
- Pratap Patil
- Madhav Raman
- Ananth Sampath Kumar & Sanjith Roay
- Sashikanth S.
International
Bound to landscape…
Architect Gilles Saucier and Andre Perotte craft designs that have distinctive identity without appearing to be repetitive.
Architecture
Under the Tamarind Tree
Himanshu Burte avers that the St. Mark’s Cathedral in Bangalore by Mathew Ghosh architects was a process of ‘addition’ and ‘enveloping’ the shell of the old parish hall.
AEC Bytes
Ecology.Design.Synergy
Earth Matters pavilion at the AEC World Expo & Conference 207 will stimulate creativity and the search for innovative reponses to challenges of the future. |
