What Architecture means…
I chanced upon an autobiography of Sri Rabindranath Tagore at the airport bookshop recently. ‘My Life in my words”, is…
Principles of Ekistics can aid Urban Planning
Uncontrolled urbanization creates problems like destruction of nature, lack of civic amenities, lack of affordable housing etc. These factors affect…
The City – My tryst with Myself
The City – My tryst with Myself What is it really about urbanization, about urban life, about cities, about new…
Indigo Tower: Bio Purification Tower
Questioning neutrality Even before the first pueblo fire was lit in the LA basin and the first cars arrived in…
Contextual Tall Buildings in India
Would you rather stand out or blend in? We all have personal preferences on how we have dress, what we…
Mumbai Musings
I believe Mumbai is one of the greatest cities in the world. It works well and inspires its citizens to…
Chasing the Vertical Dimension
Not so long ago New York City was the home for some of the tallest skyscrapers in the world but…
Eco City Ideas: Hydroponics, the urban face of Agriculture 2.0
Hunger and water scarcity are but two sides of the same coin, both in urban India as well as in…
"Human civilization has systemic problems"
Léon Krier is internationally known as a pioneering architect, urban planner and architectural theorist. He is especially recognized as a…
Our invisible Green Collars
Imagine our beloved city of Mumbai if our hundred thousand ‘waste-pickers’ / ‘rag-pickers’ suddenly vanished! Our neighborhoods would be awash…