WINGS, a poem by Simran Patankar

Contributed by Simran Patankar, 1st Year Student of Architecture, Dr. Baliram Hiray College of Architecture, Mumbai. If only I’d have wings to fly, I would’ve soared high up in the sky. And travelled to Paris, New York and Dubai To…
Restoring the Taj

Chetan Raikar at Gallopper Talks Celebrated Structural Engineer and Restoration Architect, Mr. Chetan Raikar, Chairman and Managing Director of Structwel Designers and Consultants discloses the hair raising story of how he had to restore a blood soaked site following…
Video interview with Architect & Urban Sanitation interventionalist Pratima Joshi

Pratima Joshi, Director and Founder, Shelter Associates, has worked in the area of sustainable low cost housing and sanitation for the urban poor for nearly 25 years. Using concepts like multi-stakeholder consultation, user-centered design and participative governance long before they were…
Good design seeks a wholesome solution to a strategic question – Raja Arjun

“Good design seeks a wholesome solution to a strategic question,” asserts Raja Arjun, Founder & Design Manager at Office of Cognitive Design, Founder & Director Enterprise Strategy at A.Q.B Group and Founder & Brand Manager at Hunger Management. He is a fourth generation entrepreneur, whose results-driven…
Maker’s Asylum: Where Ideas and Passion Collide

In a pre-Covid interview, workplace transformation expert Parthajeet Sarma engages in a conversation with Vaibhav Chhabra, founder of community makerspace Maker’s Asylum. The discussion revolves around the unique environment of Maker’s Asylum, where individuals from diverse backgrounds come together to…
“Architecture is crying for a neutral set of alphabets” – Architect Sabu Francis

Trained as an architect from IIT Kharagpur (1984), Architect Sabu Francis is an expert in several domains such as Computer Aided Design, Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, Web Technology; in fact, many areas of Information Technology that includes software architecting and development.…


