Category featuring the architectural and design projects from top architects in India. Architecture in India featured through an array of works from different typologies and contexts by popular architects in India.
Durganand Balsavar introduces an immersive urban design studio based on experiences of public spaces in the backdrop of climate change
Beton Brut, Ahmedabad, by tHE gRID Architects, involved creating a simple, functional home for a small entrepreneurial family with an appreciable creative streak. A home that brought the family together but left enough space for the individual personalities to thrive and bloom.
Takshila Academy Activity Centre, Akbarpur, by SGA Studio sits facing the existing football field and is integrated with the existing senior school building through pathways and porches. The building reused as many elements as possible, demonstrating a real hand on upcycling but also making the project look contemporary and light.
Delhi-based architect and artist Ankon Mitra created Oishi, an architectural scale ‘slice-form’ Origami sculpture/pavilion at the axial centre of the exposition, a lattice of interconnected and flap-folded aluminium sheets – signifying the connections that ABID wanted to forge between architecture, interior design, art, trade and the common man.
Ahmedabad University Centre, Ahmedabad, by Stephane Paumier Architects, aimed to create a centre that would become an incubator for academic life and a place for generating new ideas by creating interactive spaces besides formal educational functions.
Vilas Vasant Avachat has been elected as the new President of The Indian Institue of Architects for the term 2023-2025.
Students’ Hostel, Nagpur, by Studioboxx was an extension project with a cafeteria and additional rooms for the growing needs of the institution. Students come from the surrounding rural areas and take vocational or skill-based education at the institution.
In this article, Ar. Suneet Paul shares his views on the modern vernacular approach.
The Walled City of Ahmadabad (Ahmedabad) is India’s first UNESCO World Heritage City. This article is based on the documentation undertaken by Sabrina Khan Patel led MM Collective- one of the fourteen consultants working with Ahmedabad World Heritage City Trust (AWHCT) to accurately document heritage structures within the Walled City.
Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad, by Stephane Paumier Architects is based on 15m long modules creating a 2 floor high built/void chess mat pattern.
IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, Rashmi Bansal, looks back at her journey in the institute’s dorms- the impending demolition of which has again made the news.
Architect Sabu Francis shares his recommendations for increasing the visibility of IIA within the community of architects.
In this tribute to Conservation Architect Minakshi Jain, who passed away on June 14, 2023, Architect Darpana Athale reminisces about her interactions with Minakshi and Architect Kulbhushan Jain.
A group of Economists and Academicians have studied 1.5 million segregated neighbourhoods in India, primarily comprising Muslims or Scheduled Castes. The paper has brought to light Residential Segregation and the Disparity in access to Public Services between segregated (Muslims or Scheduled Castes) and integrated neighbourhoods.
On June 20, 2023, the Centre for Environmental Planning & Technology (CEPT) announced Mumbai-based architect Sameep Padora as its new Dean.
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