LET'S PARTNER
Architect Nader Khalili addresses the vital needs of living in harmony with nature and understanding its timelessness, taking the theme of human potential on an architectural voyage, in an exclusive dialogue 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.

BOOK REVIEW
Crucial Words: Conditions for Contemporary Architecture
A collage of thirty-one different essays and opinions, that subtly expresses the gist of what the editors call Contemporary Architecture by focussing on crucial words.

Nano Materials in Architecture, Interior Architecture & Design This book introduces Nano technology which gives information about the basic building block of nanomaterials - carbon, and how vast the innovation potential they promise for new products.


CONSTRUCTION BRIEF
Innovation . Design . Culture
AA feature on Dubai's two mega projects.

ARCHITECTURE
Big Buildings, Bigger Ambitions
CRN architects based in Chennai, demonstrate through their buildings, the aspirations of India Inc.

An integrated approach... shaping human experience
Architect Sanjay Patil and Landscape Architect Umesh Wakaley derive inspiration from vernacular architecture, and fuse it with modern technology to get the desired results, where simplicity prevails and nests with nature.

TRAVELOGUE
Surreal Realism
A trip towards the north-eastern Himalayas (Ladakh) reinforces that all vernacular architecture is a different response to the context and condition from which it emerges.

HERITAGE
The City Palace
A conservation master plan proposal for City Palace complex at Udaipur, that employs the value-based approach for assessment of cultural significance, such that it can eventually enhance the historic, social, environmental, and scientific values.


INTERNATIONAL
E-merging from the Ground
Chicago based architectural practice Qua'viarch's buildings attempt to flow out naturally from the site, een when the project brief demands a tower.

OPINION
Allure of Mediated Environments
What constitutes architectural experience and presence - architecture or media? Percy Adil Pithawala shares his thoughts in the challenging role of an architect as a M.J. (Media Jockey) in Transmutating Virtual Mixed Realty Environments.

Root-balling Architecture…and Social Values
Using various reference to contexts and contents, this article, raises questions on the current trends in the built-environment of Indian cities.


NOTES TO A CITY
Seeing...
A photo-text essay of discovering the Seeing trhough vision and imagination; text and dream.


HONOURS
Discovering 'Open Space'
'Open Space' freely debates and shares ideas. An narrative about AMD's Open Architecture Challenge that announced its winners this month at locations in Africa, Asia and South America.


LOCUS
Junglist City
Was the jungle not always perceived as a threat to human civilisation? The authors, Rahul Srivastava and Mathias Echnove in their narrative, address the issues that stands as hindrance from changing.

COLUMNS
First Slice of America
A vacation turns into a comparitive review of architecture, planning and urban geography for the author, in his maiden voyage of a new shore.