[News] MGNREGS survives here on housing schemes
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Amid allegations of irregularities in MGNREGS, there has been a mismatch of data officially available and those uploaded on websites about its implementation in Bhadrak, a report said.
[News] Why sops for affordable housing have failed to enthuse realty stocks
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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s thrust for reviving home sales did little to enthuse investors on the Street. The Nifty Realty index turned out to be the biggest loser, falling as much as 7% in the last two trading sessions
[News] Feeding Minds
It all began when architect Prasanna Desai shifted to Pune from New Delhi in the late 1990s. He felt that many architects, who visited the city, had experiences to share. “Learning in architecture is a continuous process.
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London Festival of Architecture Aims to Raise Awareness About the Industry
Architecture is one of the most celebrated professions in the construction industry. Most likely because the field provides one of man’s basic needs, which is shelter. In many countries, architecture is paid homage to by setting month-long celebrations.
Advertising Pune wall collapse: Licences of two construction firms, architects suspended
Two days after 15 persons were killed when a compound wall collapsed at a construction site in Kondhwa, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday suspended the licence of two construction companies, architects and a structural consultant.
Is Architecture same as Urban Design
With college degrees getting highly specialised, students have become selective. They need to be aware of the fine differences between any two subjects of the same discipline. Many students often get confused when it comes to choosing between a Bachelor’s in Architecture and a Bachelor’s in Urban Design.
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[News] Chennai Water Crisis: 71-YO ‘Rain Man’ Helps Hundreds Recharge Their Groundwater!
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The Chennai droughts have made not just national but international news. Most residents of the Tamil Nadu capital, whether young or old, rich or poor have been brought to the mercy of a couple hours’ supply of tap water or purchased water tanks.
[News] NATA admit card 2019 released: How to download
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NATA admit card July 2019: The Council of Architecture (CoA) has released the admit card for the second National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) today on its official website, nata.in. The examination is scheduled to be conducted on July 7 (Sunday), 2019.
[News] 10,000 flood-affected people benefit from UNDP shelter hubs
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Around 10,000 flood-affected people have benefited from shelter hubs set up with UNDP support in Kerala in the past eight months. These hubs were established in Wayanad, Pathanamthitta and Idukki districts
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[News] Affordable housing – myth or reality?
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Even if you earn Rs 50,000 a month, you cannot own a home in Delhi NCR. DNA analysed the middle-income range of officially affordable categories and found housing prices are beyond affordable for most of the working population.
[News] Heritage lovers fume as KCR’s Assembly complex puts 150-yr-old palace on demolition list
Heritage lovers in Hyderabad are up in arms against the Telangana government’s plans to demolish the 150-year Errum Manzil palace in the heart of the city for the construction of a new legislative assembly building complex, for which the foundation was laid on June 27.
[News] IIT Madras: Decoding the physical, chemical nature of ancient plasterwork
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Monuments built by the Mughals and the Lodhis from the 13th to the 16th century extensively follow a Persian style of architecture with plasterwork decorations.
Selected Academic Projects
[News] Mumbai housing colony that Charles Correa designed as ‘a mirror of the nation’ is focus of new film
The evocatively titled Lovely Villa is a documentary about the links between architecture and emotion, memories of childhood and adolescence – and two fathers.
Germany: Pritzker Prize winner BV Doshi’s retrospective at Vitra Design Museum
The Vitra Design Museum in Germany is hosting the first ever retrospective of Balakrishna Doshi’s work to be held outside Asia. It is curated by Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, the granddaughter of Doshi. The colossal exhibition offers insight on how Doshi’s work has influenced a new outlook on architectural design.
Lutyens’ Delhi: Dhruva N Chaudhuri on how the seat of administration got its architectural style
Two questions arose at the very beginning. First, who was to build the new city – the Public Works Department (PWD), a private firm in India, or a distinguished architect from abroad? The decision was in favour of an architect from overseas.
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Architects’ tribute to their ‘god’ Charles Correa
In the mid-1980s in India, there were two gods in architecture. When either of them landed in Bangalore, there would be a buzz in the architecture fraternity — “God has arrived”. Students and young practitioners would flock to hear them.
Nearly 600-year-old Chand Minar with its unique architecture attracts tourists from across the world
The Chand Minar or the Tower of the Moon is a medieval tower in Daulatabad. The tower is located in the state of Maharashtra within the Daulatabad-Deogiri fort complex. It was erected in 1445 C.E by King Ala-ud-din Bahmani to commemorate his capture of the fort.
Exploring the concept of vernacular architecture
Vernacular Architecture is the use of local materials and traditional techniques for constructing low rise homes. As a principle, this form of architecture involves not using expensive and factory-made material but using old traditional ways of construction and material as much as possible
NASA Funds Videos On Indian Architectural Marvels With Lesson Plans In Hindi
A NASA-funded a programme in the US has produced a series of informational videos about famous archaeological sites and institutions in India. The programme has lesson plans in Hindi aimed at teaching the language internationally in context with science and technology.
Understanding the wisdom of Indian residential architecture
Everywhere in the country, the design of the homes was built according to the climate of that region. Old houses, particularly in hot regions of India like Rajasthan’s havelis or the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu, would have a central courtyard or aangan and the rooms would be built around it.
Is architect the agent of Pangaea 2.0?
It was my Eureka moment as I realised that the architect is a new age agent of Pangaea. He is travelling across the world, getting educated in great academies of the nations he is not born in. He learns his craft from distant lands with different climate, flora and fauna and then moves around the globe to practice his trade.
SEDA_Urban Housing Studio_2015_Sharpening the Tools (skills)
The studio Urban Housing began with a case study that helped the students understand the social aspects of urban housing. The initial exercises focused on aspects such as understanding relationship between anthropometrics and space, the relationship between various house activities, the need for inside-outside relationships for a house, and making compact-efficient layouts.
Building Blocks: Whose Claim is it Anyway?
Late last month, the Delhi High Court gave a judgment that an architect of a building, as the author of an artistic work of architecture, does not have the right to restrain the demolition of a building.
SEDA_Urban Housing Studio_2015_Exercise-1_Case Study_Group-2
The outcome of Urban Housing Studio’s case study of Group 2 focussed on mass and void in various scales of the housing program.
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