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BOOK REVIEW
Building Integrated Photovoltaics - A Handbook.
CULTURE COUNTS
On a culture of education, and the education of culture
Continuing the debate on conservation pedagogy, Amita Baig
invites Azhar Tyabji to share his anthropological critique on the
academic shaping of a potential conservation practitioner.
ANNIVERSARY FOCUS:
Paracentric Practice
PERSPECTIVE
Theories, Concepts and Examples
The term paracentric practice can be traced from the notion of
multiple centers for world architecture, as opposed to modernism's
singular teleology. It marks the alternative approach for the
progression of architecture.
PRACTICES
Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai
Bijoy Jain renders his practice as an experiential journey of
witnessing lifestyles and learnings. For his “Studio Mumbai”,
architecture comes from the subconscious rather than the logical
realm, to become overlays of people, places and perceptions.
Urbanouveau
Architects Filipe Balestra and Sara Göransson of Urbanouveau along
with their team in collaboration with SPARC have devised a strategy
and re-defined architecture as a language which transforms the
lives of many slum dwellers, making a difference.
Francis Kere
Architect Francis Kere having found opportunity in education
returns to his homeland of Burkina Faso to transform lives by
developing low-cost institutions.
CS Studio Architects
The South African firm "CS STUDIO ARCHITECTS" aims at
providing appropriate sustainable solutions in every context
through an integrated construction method.
Olavi Kaponen
While designing his projects, Finnish architect Olavi kaponen
strives to marry his architectural education with his natural
design instinct.
Dan Rockhill : Studio 804
Academician Dan Rockhill develops a practice that follows
archetypal methods of place making and relates the dweller
with the landscape and 'forces of nature' by means
of architecture.
C. Anjalendran
The architecture of C. Anjalendran epitomises much more from a
lot less.
Sami Rintala, Rintala Eggertsson
Architect Sami Rintala's work combines art, space, material
and light to artistically portray the equilibrium between
nature and man that seems to have been lost in
contemporary times.
Pezo Von Ellrichshausen (PvE)
The office of Maurice Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen
relocated to southern Chile to carve out a niche practice
for themselves.
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