Sarbjit Singh Bahga writes about Didi Contractor, a self-taught architect from Dharamshala, India, who made an indelible mark by challenging conventional norms and championed an eco-friendly approach to construction.
Authored by Mrinalini Ghadiok, as a part of her academic study in May 2023, the essay discusses the Mumbai Coastal Road project and the role of architects in engaging with large-scale development projects in cities. She analyzes how architects can act as both professionals and citizens to influence projects through organized collectives while maintaining individual agency. She further examines different views on an architect’s responsibility to society and how their identity and work in commercial vs. critical practice impacts their ability to effect change.
The following view on the unpaid architectural internships in India was posted by Shruthi Ramakrishna on Made in Earth Collective’s Instagram handle.
It is important to remember that all through life these kids have always been instructed and evaluated. In the process, most become doers and lack the ability to think for themselves. What they are taught in schools makes them problem-solvers and plan-makers – they understand the process of design as being linear.
Are we preparing our new generations to look deeper? Search more broadly? Are we getting them interested in thinking and working beyond self-sustenance?
Chitra Vishwanath opines: The office needs commercial success to retain the practice – it is not an ‘Institute’ to either teach or provide a knowledge sharing platform. Further, architectural education is a long, drawn-out process and is never finished.
Recent ruling by Madhya Pradesh High Court has put the whammy on architects. Architects in India is a small community of about 60000 professionals, but every
Refer to our last post where Madhya Pradesh High Court ruling states that Engineers will have same powers as Architects. While many architects are still
The recent ruling by High Court of Madhya Pradesh, where it said that Engineers to have same powers as Architects has created a huge furore
Architects, if you have not booked a domain name for your website yet, wait. As .archi and .architect TLDs may be soon available for architects.
In an exceedingly mobile profession, the Architects of today are constantly on the move. Their projects are no more limited to home regions, and the
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