“As much as this book may help young students to become good architects… it seeks to restore the idealism that was once the hallmark of the profession.”—Praveen Bavadekar reviews Five Architectural Fables

Praveen Bavadekar

Praveen Bavadekar, in his review for Five Architectural Fables by Edgar Demello, opines how the architectural fables ingeniously critique urban design through non-human perspectives, transforming complex environmental and design challenges into provocative, imaginative storytelling.

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.

Apple Store Kuala Lumpur by Norman Foster + Partners

Of Glass Boxes and Domes – Praveen Bavadekar reviews The Apple Store at Kuala Lumpur, designed by Foster and Partners

Praveen Bavadekar

Praveen Bavadekar reviews the Apple Store TRX in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, designed by Foster+Partners, as a revisit of Miesian glass box design, blending millennia-old spatial techniques with a century-old architectural obsession.

“DeGraaf seeks to lay bare the vacuousness and the fluff that’s behind most buildings built today”, Praveen Bavadekar reviews ‘architect, verb’, By Reinier De Graaf

Praveen Bavadekar

Praveen Bavadekar, Partner at Thirdspace Architecture Studio reviews, Reinier De Graaf’s book, architect, verb.

Indian Architecture at 75, and the road ahead – Praveen Bavadekar

Praveen Bavadekar

Praveen Bavadekar, architect at ThirdSpace Architecture Studio shares his thoughts on the architectural legacy that we carry, and the road ahead for Indian architecture.

Balaji temple at Andhra by Sameep Padora and Associates

Balaji Temple at Andhra Pradesh by Sameep Padora and Associates has achieved a very sophisticated level of abstraction: Praveen Bavadekar

Praveen Bavadekar

The following critique for the Balaji Temple at Andhra Pradesh, an award-winning project designed by Sameep Padora and Associates, was shared by Praveen Bavadeker. Praveen Bavadekar is Principal at Third Space Studio.
The Balaji temple in Nandyal explores and abstracts the long tradition of the temple typology in India.

The architectural philosopher Andrew Benjamin wrote that every act of design was an act of repetition and that architecture is about exploring what not to repeat. This building too repeats or emulates certain tropes of the Hindu temple so that it is recognisable as a temple yet it doesn’t replicate those tropes but rather breaks them down to constituent parts to then again reconstruct it.

Centenary Museum, Belgaum, Praveen Bavadekar

K.L.E CENTENARY MUSEUM, at BELGAUM, by Thirdspace Architecture Studio

Thirdspace Architects

The museum display is conceived as a chronological narrative, and it is not contained solely within the restored building, but is extended into the site by the addition of two pavilions that are interspersed into the landscape.

Praveen Bavadekar

“As much as this book may help young students to become good architects… it seeks to restore the idealism that was once the hallmark of the profession.”—Praveen Bavadekar reviews Five Architectural Fables

THE NASIK PROJECT | Conversation on India’s Small Cities

Of Glass Boxes and Domes – Praveen Bavadekar reviews The Apple Store at Kuala Lumpur, designed by Foster and Partners

“DeGraaf seeks to lay bare the vacuousness and the fluff that’s behind most buildings built today”, Praveen Bavadekar reviews ‘architect, verb’, By Reinier De Graaf

Indian Architecture at 75, and the road ahead – Praveen Bavadekar

Balaji Temple at Andhra Pradesh by Sameep Padora and Associates has achieved a very sophisticated level of abstraction: Praveen Bavadekar

K.L.E CENTENARY MUSEUM, at BELGAUM, by Thirdspace Architecture Studio

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