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The extremely transparent design of Farnsworth house seems to have continued influence on the design of many private residences. NA house in Tokyo by architect
studio Emergence is a design studio found by two architects, Seeja Sudhakaran and Khushbu Davda, with a penchant for geometry in design and Parametric Design Approach.
Live videos of the Notre Dame Cathedral burning down kept the world (at least the world that we are part of) riveted, many people shared images of themselves with Notre Dame, remembering fondly their last visit. The area around Notre Dame, is one of the most kitsch tourist destinations in the world, row upon row of trinket shops, with mostly Chinese made models of Eiffel Towers and other such paraphernalia, the place is teeming with tourists, the majority of them in recent years being Chinese.
More concretely, the single library can be imagined as the space a network creates. It may be imagined as a network of various dispersed
book lovers and readers tied to it. That thought takes us places. What if the larger space within which a particular library sits is actually a
cumulative super-network of users of other libraries, in a larger network of libraries?
Adaptive reuse is born out of the modern architect’s guilt of destroying the DNA of building making. The craft of building, where the architect was the master craftsman, needed him to plan every part and sub part before it reached the site. – Manish Gulati on adapative reuse of old buildings.
As I marveled (with mixed feelings – I am not such a sucker for the dramatic, my preferences are more for the under stated) in the sunny New York cold at the shiny surfaces and the form, the 1st thought that came to my mind was Chand Baori, a step-well that I had seen over 20 years back at Abhaneri in Dausa district, Rajasthan. I was a student undergoing professional training in Delhi and had gone on a step-well focused back-packing trip to Rajasthan. – Design Dalda
Design Dalda visits the architecture of Hassan Fathy and shares his version of the story.
Shilpa and Sameer from Studio Osmosis share their experiences as an emerging architectural practice in India.
Thoughts on running and managing architectural practice in today’s time by Collaborative Architecture
Sabarmati’s Narmada River Front – A story by Design Dalda
Tushat Kothawade and Chiranjivi Lunkad from Studio Infinity, Pune, share their experiences with starting, running and managing n architectural practice.
A short history of the selfie stick – Story by Design Dalda
The #10yearchallenge that Indian architects really need to worry about is the Architects Act 972, which has not changed a bit since its inception.
Ameet Babbar shares his opinions on the Amendments to Architects Act and the need for professional qualifying exam.
Globally, the concept of designing libraries has been witnessing a revolution. In the following piece, Ar. Apurva Bose Dutta, who recently visited Helsinki and Espoo as a part of a four-member Indian delegation for an Architecture and Design Media Visit, on the invitation of the Finland Government, writes about some of the libraries she visited there.
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