A Child’s Right to play in India: Learnings from a seven year old – Megha Tyagi

Megha Tyagi

In August last year, a seven-year-old Navya Singh encouraged by her advocate father Dheeraj Singh filed a petition in the court to save her neighbourhood park in Rohini’s sector 8 from converting into a site for the community hall. In December, after almost four months, the court ruled in of the petition and asked the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to select an alternative site for the favour proposed construction. It is an exemplary case in the contemporary times of our country. It brings into the limelight a three-fold perspective.

The Hafeez Controversy: I will do it free, you go your way! – Dr. Anil S. Thakur

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I wonder why things have degraded and turned so disagreeable. Had Contractor embarked the ethical path, and possessed the scarce merit or the genius unparalleled, the world would have had made his time a very precious commodity. A genuine high projects-oriented mobility for Hafeez would have afforded him a ‘plane ownership’ long ago (what we introduced jovially in the beginning, arguably becomes a potent yardstick of a professional’s indispensability!).

There are more women than men studying architecture in India, and there is no third gender in the profession. – Council of Architecture

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RTI reply from the Council of Architecture India reveals that there are more women studying architecture, and there is zero representation of the third gender in the profession.

Your Vote: Indian Railways invites free concept master plans from architects.

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IRSDC (Indian Railways Station Development Corporation) has invited applications from architects/planners/enginners to prepare Concept Master Plans at zero cost. Their website says,

The Future of Architectural Practice – Nirmal Kulkarni, AUM Architects, Investigating Design (InDes)

Aum Architects Gurgaon

Today it’s a fallacy to believe that architecture is ‘practiced’ in India or even elsewhere. Largely, it’s ‘service providing’ which 90% of architecture firms practice. So why is the misnomer still clouding our minds? The answer is simple. We have not consciously tried to understand what we do.

Laurie Baker in conversation with Gautam Bhatia

Laurie Baker – Architect for the Common Man, an interview with Gautam Bhatia

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Laurie Baker – Architect for the Common Man, an interview with Gautam Bhatia

An Open Letter to Hafeez Contractor, by Shubhayan Modak

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Shubhayan Modak, a young architect writes a letter to the celebrated architect Hafeez Contractor, who offered Indian Railways to do the master plan for 19 railway stations for free.

Off the Cuff: How Crafting Architecture Builds Economic Resilience in the Construction Industry – Rahoul Singh

Rahoul B. Singh

Rahoul Singh: Architecture represents the crafts collective – a number of different craftsmen collectively contribute to the built work, each bearing the imprint of a particular trade. Unfortunately, seldom do they or their communities get acknowledged for their contribution. This, at the outset, is the first step in eroding the identity of a people associated with a particular trade and by extension region, but it gets worse.

Vistára – The Architecture of India – Introduction by Charles Correa

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Vistára – The Architecture of India – Introduction by Charles Correa, the book features the talks by B.V.Doshi, Achyut Kanvinde, M.J.P Mistri and Le Corbusier.

Architectural Competitions in India – Discussions with Fumhiko Maki, Maki and Associates, Tokyo

Fumihiko Maki

Fumihiko Maki from Maki and Associates discusses his experiences with the architectural competitions in India and also shares his message with the young professionals.

Grand Juries and No Buildings – Part 2, with Ankon Mitra and Anuj Mehta

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The previous post on the state of architectural competitions in India has received tremendous response from the architectural fraternity. The sentiment around the competition is

Grand juries and no buildings – State of architectural competitions in India

Pulkit Soni

The first in the series of articles that focus on the state of architectural competitions in India – We discuss with Sameep Padora, Sidhartha Talwar, Amritha Ballal and Nikhil Dhar, what all is wrong and the way forward.

“SMARTER” WAY OF ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION – Deepankar Sharma

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Our curriculum is extremely rigid in terms of the choices and alternatives it offers the aspiring students. There is no denial on the urgency to revise and rebuilt the curriculum in parts or as a whole.

Featuring, Yashada Wagle an architect, and her Sweet ‘PUN’ishments!

Yashada Wagle

“You are hereby ‘PUN’ished – PUNgent”, is how Yashada Wagle, who is an architect and a research fellow at KRVIA (full bio at the end),

Learning to See, with Architect Sachin Agshikar

Sachin Agshikar Architects

Blame it on our fast-paced and rapidly changing lives and chaos at every step, that we forget to see around and miss out on the beauty that surrounds us. Sachin Agshikar, an architect based in Mumbai, through these four videos talks about the importance of learning to see and appreciate the beauty in simple things.

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A Child’s Right to play in India: Learnings from a seven year old – Megha Tyagi

The Hafeez Controversy: I will do it free, you go your way! – Dr. Anil S. Thakur

There are more women than men studying architecture in India, and there is no third gender in the profession. – Council of Architecture

Your Vote: Indian Railways invites free concept master plans from architects.

The Future of Architectural Practice – Nirmal Kulkarni, AUM Architects, Investigating Design (InDes)

Laurie Baker – Architect for the Common Man, an interview with Gautam Bhatia

An Open Letter to Hafeez Contractor, by Shubhayan Modak

Off the Cuff: How Crafting Architecture Builds Economic Resilience in the Construction Industry – Rahoul Singh

Vistára – The Architecture of India – Introduction by Charles Correa

Architectural Competitions in India – Discussions with Fumhiko Maki, Maki and Associates, Tokyo

Grand Juries and No Buildings – Part 2, with Ankon Mitra and Anuj Mehta

Grand juries and no buildings – State of architectural competitions in India

“SMARTER” WAY OF ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION – Deepankar Sharma

Featuring, Yashada Wagle an architect, and her Sweet ‘PUN’ishments!

Learning to See, with Architect Sachin Agshikar

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