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Post Event
Salone Internazionale del mobile
Rajendra Kumar covers the most famous furnishing exhibition – Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Book Review
Trade Fair design Annual 2006/2007
While technological changes have increased modes of communication, the exhibition stand remains a core element in the business of branding and marketing strategy for many companies.
INDIA USP
Making Urban Planning Work ?
Dr. Bimal Patel, while referring to Gujarat’s town planning Scheme mechanism, reiterates that a good planning scheme is embedded in its legal clarity and the enthusiastic trust it receives from the people.
The politics of Land
Swathi Ramanathan points out that acquisition has been described as one of the most draconian of government powers, with power, politics and patronage preying on land.
National Missions of Knowledge
Amita Baig discusses about the National Manuscripts Mission and the measures the government can take to make it more accessible to the public.
CULTURE COUNTS
Ethics in Conservation Practice
Amita Baig avers that the core problem is not lack of awareness for conservation but the attitude and approach towards the issue.
TECHNOLOGY
Neo-Futurist Architecture
GEOTECTURA, an architectural studio by young Israeli architect Joseph (Yossi) Cory, helps us re-experience the fervour of neo-futuristic images—almost science fiction but extremely seductive.
PRODUCT DESIGN
Indian Ticket to EID Award
Profiling the Pune-based product design firm Ticket Design, which has displayed expertise that enabled it to bag the silver at the EID award for their product-tracking device –Trackit.
HERITAGE
A Punctuated Moment
Mumbai-based architect Abba Narain Lambah, recently restored the Cawasjee Jehangir Convocation Hall of Mumbai University through a very detailed and elaborate process.
…the Ratha Tales
Second part of Tappan Mittal-Deshpande’s profile on Hampi, which replete a rich culture and artistic wealth
INTERNATIONAL
Activist Architecture
The Australian architect Andrew Maynard, has a penchant for work, that serves commercial needs but at the same time focuses on the importance of ecology.
Stacked Cubes
Santiago’s Calatrava first residential project in the US, the 80 South Street Tower, a unique 45-feet glazed stacked-cube-organisation is cantilevered in a step-like fashion.
ART
Chicago Picasso
Smita Dalvi emphasises the need for designing and executing Public Art with great conscientiousness as it intrudes into the visual and programmatic space of ‘all public’.
Who let the Cows out ?
The installation of fibreglass animals at Churchgate station area draws attention for more reasons than its colourful and ‘amusing’ presence raising questions that concern art, public space, civic heritage, and the animation of animal life.
ARCHITECTURE
A Santuary of Space…
Architect MN. Ashish Ganju’s principle of building with the people to design for them, combines inspiration with aspiration, evident at the Dolma Ling institute and Nunery in Sidhpur, Dharamsala.
Minimalist but not obscure
Pune-based architect Girish Doshi’s firm, Navkar believes in architecture that develops into a place in its pure form, rather than just a built space.
HONOURS
‘Learning’ for ‘Innovation’
The BE Awards of Excellence gave an insight into the ‘year in infrastructure 2007’, while the supporting conference sessions became a playground to evaluate the ‘learning and ‘innovations’
TRIBUTE
Baker – The Tradition After
Malini Krishnankutty claims the practice of Laurie baker raises questions of ethics and economics, the ‘good and bad’ in architecture and wonders what form are we going to take the conviction of Baker ahead ?
CITYWISE
Visions of Cities
Himanshu Burte & Malini Krishnankutty observe that planning in India has generally tended to be about everything but strategic or humane visions of cities, sceptical about the effectiveness of the slew of Development Plans under JNNURM.
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