Book Review: Travel as Recovery
Bijoy Ramachandran
Bijoy Ramachandran Reviews ‘Architecture Travelogues: Drawing Between the Lines’, book by Edgar Demello
Architecture Books and Reviews
Bijoy Ramachandran Reviews ‘Architecture Travelogues: Drawing Between the Lines’, book by Edgar Demello
“Making of Chandigarh: A Vintage History” co-authored by Sarbjit Bahga and Arun Mirchandani offers a unique pictorial journey through 575 vintage photographs, capturing the city’s evolution from 1950 to the 1990s. With a focus on the city-making process, the book, enriched with more than 50 drawings, serves as a comprehensive tribute to the photographers and the multitude of contributors who played a crucial role in shaping Chandigarh.
Khushboo Parmar reviews The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton.
Prof. Jaimini Mehta shares a preview of his upcoming book, Non-Aesthetic Modernity: Metaphysics of Modern Architecture.
Athulya Aby reviews the book, Paths Uncharted by Balkrishna Doshi.
Durganand Balsavar, ARTES ROOTS COLLABORATIVE, reviews the book ‘Conservation And The Indian City’, conceptualised, curated, and edited by Poonam Verma Mascarenhas and Vinayak Bharne.
Prof. Narendra Dengle reviews UNBUILT.01, the recently published book by VK:a architecture.
An Excerpt from Unbuilt.01- A collection of Unbuilt Works of Pune- based VK:a architecture.
An Excerpt from Unbuilt.01- A collection of Unbuilt Works of Pune- based VK:a architecture.
A first in a series of books, Unbuilt.01 is a collection of unbuilt works by Pune-based VK:a architecture. Its launch coincides with the studio celebrating its 50 years.
Acclaimed Indian architectural author and award-winning architectural journalist Ar. Apurva Bose Dutta pivots her new book, Architectural Inheritance and Evolution of India, on families, architecture, and India through the narratives of ten architectural families in India.
Authored by Sameep Padora and Shreyank Khemalapure as a co-author, (de)Coding Mumbai documents the evolution of Mumbai’s housing fabric and its regulations.
Praveen Bavadekar, Partner at Thirdspace Architecture Studio reviews, Reinier De Graaf’s book, architect, verb.
ArchitectureLive!, in association with launch partner Seed, is presenting its findings from the Gender Parity survey in the form of a book- Gender Parity: Architecture Profession in Post-Binary India.
Focusing on the spiritual dimension of professing architecture, the Walton Program proposes that architecture can and should assist the spiritual growth of humanity in the service of tackling both our urgent and enduring challenges.
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