“There was a need to bring outside voices to contaminate and corrupt the idealism of the academy and vice-versa.”—Pinkish Shah reviews SPADE India Foundation event by SRDA

Pinkish Shah

Pinkish Shah reviews the SPADE India Foundation event, organised by Samira Rathod Design Atelier (SRDA), critiquing the limitations in format, content, and impact. The article also includes Samira Rathod’s response to Pinkish Shah’s critique. The event held on September 19, 2024, focused on architectural explorations in Mumbai, including the reuse of abandoned buildings.

Patterns of Mylapore. Photography by Vinoth Chandar

THE NASIK PROJECT | Conversation on India’s Small Cities

The Nasik Project

Summarising the “Conversation on India’s Small Cities”, by The Nasik Project, a symposium delving into the question of what constitutes a second-tier or small city beyond mere quantitative metrics.

Godavari Ghat, Nashik- What is city without its people? © Rajesh Advani

THE NASIK PROJECT | Conversation on India’s Small Cities

The Nasik Project

Conversation on India’s Small Cities, by The Nasik Project, is a symposium delving into the question of what constitutes a second-tier or small city beyond mere quantitative metrics like population, density, and economic indicators.

EVENT | Portfolio 24, IIT Madras Research Park, Taramani, Chennai, July 5-7, 2024

Chennai Architecture Foundation

July 5-7, 2024 – Chennai Architecture Foundation, is organising Portfolio 24, a non-competitive space to exhibit academic work by students of architecture from colleges across Tamil Nadu.

Prakriti and Kalakriti | Transcreating Gond Art at the IIT Bhilai Campus

Kanvinde Rai and Chowdhury

Prakriti and Kalakriti, at IIT Bhilai are an acknowledgement of the people who have inhabited this land for many generations.
They are a celebration of their culture and an attempt to assimilate it in an institute of higher education – a gentle but constant reminder of everything that is and has been in the vicinity since time immemorial.

Event: NATIONAL CONFERENCE on REVIVING REGIONAL WISDOM IN ARCHITECTURE-2018, at Poornima University, Jaipur

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The aim of the conference, by Poornima University is to give importance and understand the regional strengths in architecture and to create awareness about the indigenous urban and rural habitat. Even as we march forward in time, we cannot afford to forget or let go of our ancestral knowledge bank, which is rich with solutions for the problems arising in design and architecture in the current times. It has often been seen that the best sustainable solutions in architecture, emerge from local and traditional wisdom.

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“There was a need to bring outside voices to contaminate and corrupt the idealism of the academy and vice-versa.”—Pinkish Shah reviews SPADE India Foundation event by SRDA

THE NASIK PROJECT | Conversation on India’s Small Cities

THE NASIK PROJECT | Conversation on India’s Small Cities

EVENT | Portfolio 24, IIT Madras Research Park, Taramani, Chennai, July 5-7, 2024

Prakriti and Kalakriti | Transcreating Gond Art at the IIT Bhilai Campus

Event: NATIONAL CONFERENCE on REVIVING REGIONAL WISDOM IN ARCHITECTURE-2018, at Poornima University, Jaipur

Event: image:medium:actor – hands on multimedia workshops at Delhi, by Sidharth Singh

Exhibition: Time Travel with The Traveling Ink Pot, by Yashwant D Pitkar

Exhibition: When is Space? – Conversations on Contemporary Architecture, at Jaipur

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