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[ reconstructed ] ¬ Architexturez Subject Gate >> < here > >>
here > >> sub.gate: RDF Schema Database, Ontologies and internal search services
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[ evolution ] ¬ Architexturez Network since 2001… >> < here > >>
here > >> compare, especially years [ 2003 ] and [ 2005 ] ¬ growth in complexity...
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new Entries in Architexturez South Asia…
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+ .page + 2007-04-24: Report on Rationalization of Procedures [6052 words]
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The Committee deliberated upon the procedures for grant of building plan approvals and completion certificates including the role of the Delhi Urban Arts Commission therein. The consensus of the opinion was that the present procedures involving a multiplicity of authorities were resulting in considerable harassment and delays. The ...
Building Bye Laws…
Delhi Development Authority…
Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC)…
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+ .page + 2007-01-24: Introduction to Whitewash! [3546 words]
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India, love it or hate it. Certainly it is impossible to be unaffected by it. My own relationship with the place is tainted by the contempt I feel for the people and incidents that unmake it everyday. Whitewash is merely a reflection of the skewed impressions that present-day ...
Contemporary Indian Architecture…
Content Type: Essay…
Critique…
sataire…
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+ .page + 2007-01-21: Sataire: Architect wanted [276 words]
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Architect wanted with cool exterior, and studied manner required by established company. Part teacher, part practitioner, part writer, candidate may be a kind of new age Leonardo dabbling in disciplines for which he has neither training nor skill. When there is no work in the office candidate should ...
Big People…
Parody…
The Architect in Society…
sataire…
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+ .page + 2007-01-18: Whitewash! New Delhi Excavated [1827 words]
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It happened just like Mount Vesuvius. A little after mid-day on August 24, 2016 AD disaster struck. Mount Simla on the northern fringes of New Delhi erupted and literally buried the city in a layer of ash. First to be buried were small towns like Panipat and Karnal ...
Architecture in the Age of McDonalds…
Crisis of Institutions in India…
Fantastic Buildings…
sataire…
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+ .page + 2007-01-06: The Alternatives [3416 words]
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In India, historically, the architect has been used as an anonymous means to an end. In the past, the end was generally the glorification of the State for religion through the creation of plastic forms and visual drama. Today, though not so anonymous, architects are ready accomplices to ...
Enaction…
Housing…
Manifesto…
Professional Practice…
Slums…
Urban Centres…
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+ .page + 2007-01-04: Professional Ideolgy [2806 words]
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Let me put the question differently, with the intention of answering it. What could motivate an Indian to seek advice from an architect? I believe it would be the requirement for a durable shelter which takes care of his needs, which are not only biological–at a certain level ...
Ideology…
Institutions…
Native Categories…
Professional Practice…
Symbolisation…
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+ .page + 2007-01-03: Relationship With Clients [1470 words]
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The need for architects to play a constructive role in a developing society hardly requires elaboration. An enlightened architect can contribute a lot in dealing with the multifaceted problems of buildings. The technological aspects of evolving new building materials and innovating new techniques requires the urgent attention of ...
Conventional Design Threshold…
Manifesto…
Mass Society…
The Client…
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+ .page + 2007-01-02: Team Approach Needed [2429 words]
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Many sensitive architects also react against what they see as the unreal and irrelevant preoccupations of the profession. They react against the obsession for forms and sculptural expression and see the need for buildings that really work; for buildings that recognize and reflect the many complex problems of ...
Manifesto…
Professional Practice…
Solo Architect…
Teaching Architecture…
Teamwork…
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+ .page + 2007-01-01: Historical Bias [2348 words]
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The root of formal architecture lies in written history. Since the books of history deal with the privileged and the powerful, their exploits and symbols of their authority, the source of inspiration for both public and architects has been historical monuments – temples, churches and palaces – artifacts ...
Conventional Design Threshold…
Ideology of the Modern…
Low-Cost Housing…
Manifesto…
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+ .page + 2006-12-25: Sataire: Contextual Contradictions [479 words]
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It is an undestatement to say that celebrity DJ Rashmi Kakkar's new designer home is a celebration of minimalist modernity. For it is much more than that. It is a statement of contextual clarity, and traditional purity. Rashmi herself clad in an all glass see through nightie greeted ...
Architectural Media…
Criticality…
Parody…
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+ .page + 2006-12-24: Aspects of Curriculum in the Architectural education of India [4431 words]
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Of the yesteryears, the Asian regionalism has been strong and even aloof because of the cultural and linguistic boundaries and limited means of communication, however it looks as though the perceptions and ideas have traveled and the pursuit of visual language have had some concurrences. As a matter ...
Education…
Institutions…
Keynote Address…
Overview…
Pedagogy…
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+ .page + 2006-11-13: Memorandum submitted by young architects [1637 words]
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A group of young Architect have come forth with a proposal of new ways of solving the problems of the poor in the modern process of urbanisation. The architects who called on the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on Tuesday the 12th, have suggested a dialogue between the ...
Housing for the Poor…
Slums…
The Prime Minister's Office…
Urbanisation…
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last entries in Architexturez South Asia: "My Architecture is Unassertive" | Architect as Team Leader | …To Construct, .03 …Steelyards at Alang! | Planning and Equity | Temples of Jagannath in Puri and Ranpur - Orissa, India | M. Arch. In Architectural Education | Proposal for Restructuring Technical Education | Lutyens Bungalow Zone | Profession, Education and Regulatory Bodies in India | The Atelier Principle in Teaching | Effect of the Bhuj, India earthquake of 26 January 2001 on heritage buildings | The Place of Tradition in Design Sensibility | Architectural Education in a Holistic Framework | Middle Income Housing | GREHA "Habitat Schools" Curriculum, 1990 | Priorities for a saner environment | Book Review: Better Homes For All | A Cheap Way To Build Houses | Draft note on the Concept of Group Housing | Design Criteria for mass housing | Minto Hall Convention Centre Competition | Freedom Park Competition | RV College of Engineering Competition | Evolving scenario of Architecture in Gujarat | People’s Participation in Housing | Design Method and Construction Process | …To Construct, .02 …Shelter Meanings, Quality of Life | Analogues of Architecture | Architectural Education in India (overview) | Being at Home | Architecture of Goa | Contingent Criticality | Archive…
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