Women as Catalyst for Change in Architectural Practices

March 8, 2024 No Comments

Women constitute nearly half of the construction workforce in the country, and yet their role is overlooked. Through the exhibition ‘Samatva – Shaping the Built’ at the India Art, Architecture, and Design Biennale 2024, this article presents questions urging the architectural fraternity to support the feminist practices nurturing sensitive and able designers leading by example, with hopes that it becomes the industry norms.

Sonali Rastogi- Manoeuvring her way to lead gender-positive Architectural Practice, Morphogenesis

February 13, 2023 No Comments

Sonali Rastogi, Co-founder and Principal Architect at India’s leading Architectural Practice, Morphogenesis, discusses the trajectory of gender representation in her journey as an architect and how she, along with her co-founder and partner, Manit, went on to lead one of India’s only gender-positive practices.

Promising Architectural Practices of India - Future Trajectories

Future Trajectories II – Promising Architectural Practices of India

December 2, 2022 No Comments

Promising Architectural Practices of India | Young Vision and the Future of Indian Architecture | Co-ordinated by: Megha Pande Our world has been evolving at

Manual of Architectural Practice | Patronising the Patron: Salil Ranadive on Encouraging Clients to Fund Good Architecture

November 15, 2022 1 Comment

The Lucknow Architecture Festival was held from 04th November to 06th November, 2022. The first day of the event saw the official launch of the Council of Architecture’s Manual of Architectural Practice. Post the launch, we had a conversation with the Manual’s Committee member, Ar. Salil Ranadive.

Manual of Architectural Practice by Council of Architecture

Council of Architecture Releases Manual of Architectural Practice

June 30, 2022 1 Comment

The Council of Architecture, India, is a statutory body constituted by the Government of India under the provisions of the Architects Act, 1972, enacted by

Women in Architectural Practice: Everyday Experiences and Exercising Agency, Feminist Collective in Architecture

April 17, 2022 No Comments

“Women in Architectural Practice: Everyday Experiences and Exercising Agency” was a 2-day National Symposium organized by the Feminist Collective in Architecture (FCA), India, a

FCA National Symposium 2022, Women in Architectural Practice

February 12, 2022 No Comments

FCA National Symposium 2022, Women in Architectural Practice – Symposium aims to highlight how women and gender minority architects have overcome their day-to-day challenges, professional or personal, to make a career in architectural practice. They have exercised agency in actively dismantling gender stereotypes at home, bringing qualities of care and empathy in the workplace and infusing architectural production processes with gender sensitivity, among others. In short, they have brought in humane qualities into practice without compromising on professionalism.

Promising Architectural Practices of India

February 3, 2022 No Comments

Promising Architectural Practices of India “Architects are very fundamental to our living, especially urban living.” – This was Late Munishwar Nath Ashish Ganju’s response to the query about

Re-emergence of Architectural Practice in India from the Pandemic 2020

May 17, 2021 No Comments

Using written and spoken discourse, ArchitectureLive! gathers illuminating thoughts on the status and conditions of architecture practice during the COVID-19 lulls. We witness how studios emerge from this unforeseen hiatus with refreshed processes.

I am in complete disagreement of the use of the word ‘start-up’ in the context of architectural practices.- Ar. Sushant Jai-Amita Verma, rat[LAB]

May 23, 2019 No Comments

rat[LAB] – Research in Architecture & Technology, is an independent research organization and network of designers & researchers specializing in computational design or similar technology-related domains. rat[LAB] is operated as a cloud-based organization with an international network of researchers & computational designers spread across UK, USA, Europe & Asia, and a studio in New Delhi, India, the research cell functions as a global collaborative and multidisciplinary laboratory facilitating design research that leads to novel spatial tectonics and smart built environments. -rat[LAB]

Startup Architecture II – Stories of young architectural practices

November 16, 2018 No Comments

Balancing the yin and yang into the perfect circle is perhaps the biggest challenge for any individual in his life, let alone designers. And to

Setting up an architectural practice is slow and grueling process – Kayzad Shroff, SHROFFLEóN

June 2, 2018 No Comments

In conversation with Kayzad Shroff, Founder and Co-Partner of award-winning young firm SHROFFLEoN which is based in Mumbai, where he works along with his partner – Maria Leon. SHROFFLEoN came into being in early 2011 and has managed to make quite a statement within the last decade.

India’s leading architectural practice Morphogenesis to design Trump Tower at Gurgaon

March 28, 2018 No Comments

India’s leading architectural practice signs up with the Trump Organisation to design Trump Tower in Gurgaon.

The Future of Architectural Practice – Nirmal Kulkarni, AUM Architects, Investigating Design (InDes)

March 17, 2018 1 Comment

Today it’s a fallacy to believe that architecture is ‘practiced’ in India or even elsewhere. Largely, it’s ‘service providing’ which 90% of architecture firms practice. So why is the misnomer still clouding our minds? The answer is simple. We have not consciously tried to understand what we do.

The Future of Architectural Practice in India – Sanjay Prakash

June 8, 2017 2 Comments

Sanjay Prakash, Principal Consultant at SHiFt, shares his views on the new skills and challenges in future that architects will need to be prepared for.

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