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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…
10 facts about Solar Energy

10 facts about Solar Energy you always wanted to know but did not know whom to ask The amount of solar energy that hits the earth in one hour could take care of all the earth’s energy needs for an…
Inventive Architect Abin Chaudhuri on holistic development – Video interview

Spending his initial years in rural West Bengal, attending a ‘Pathshala’, with sheer grit and determination, he has risen to become a front-runner with projects across the globe. Architect Abin Chaudhuri has never done it conventionally; post Architecture he went…
WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO – Ar. Abin Chaudhari

Our aim is to provide a “Soul in the Shell” says Abin Chaudhuri, who has graduated from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 1998 and pursued Industrial Design at Domus Academy, Milan. Abin Design Studio (ADS), started in 2005 has executed a…
The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building – Louis Kahn

This is an article of a series on the masters of Architecture. Louis Kahn was born in Pärnu, Estonia, on February 20, 1901. His family immigrated to the United States when Kahn was a child. Louis Kahn attended Philadelphia’s Central…
Institute of Driving and Training Research (IDTR) – Designed for Road Safety

Institute of Driving and Traffic Research (IDTR), a first of its kind initiative in India designed for road safety. It all began in the year 1998 when it was realized that road safety had become a major issue for metropolitan…
Life is short. Let’s build stuff that matters – Ar. Sabeena Khanna

Architect Sabeena believes in Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Simplicity is the intimate sophistication”. Architectural inspiration came to her at an early age from her father, Ar. V.N Shah, who spearheaded Haryana and Himachal Pradesh for almost 20 years as Chief Architect.…
Redefining Landscapes For Public Interest

Creators Architects, a practice serving community for three decades, holds a culture of young and fresh thinking shuns preconceived conception of subject matters, is one of the early practices. Led by Ar. Rajiv Gupta (Sr. Partner), Ar. Mukta Gupta (Sr.…
Emphasising scale, proportion and integration over decoration- Simeen Quraishi

“What inspired us today has changed to what inspired us yesterday”, says Simeen. With the collective professional experience that encompasses a wide array of design types, Riyaz Quraishi and Simeen Quraishi, the designer couple, have been behind fulfilling the dreams…
The Space becomes a Medium of Thematic Expression – Harsh Patel

“More than architecture, it was a lesson to discover myself; thrashing out beliefs to their extremes and gaining the courage to express it”, ponders Harsh Patel who completed his graduation in architecture from CEPT University.He strongly believes that every project…

