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The functioning of the Delhi Urban Arts Commission has also been inviting attention. While the architects complain about delays in DUAC, the DUAC has been complaining that buildings get constructed in contravention of its approvals. There has been a talk of giving inspecting powers to DUAC which would mean another agency involved in the approval process. ]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000073.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000073.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Enaction and the Profession Building Bye Laws Delhi Development Authority Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC) Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:17:58 +0530  
The film was 82 minutes of architects talking about design, the profession, public processes, professional frustrations, and personal manifestos. Suddenly architecture was out in the public domain, lay people started commenting on design; they found to their utter disbelief that architects didn’t drive Ferraris, and holiday in Bora Bora; that planning efforts required designers; that architects did more than just elevations; that truth be told vaastu was the enemy; and that though architects loved to talk (as was evident to anyone watching), almost all of us found communicating with our clients the toughest part of our job.
 
I kept a diary on site and it is filled with random comments by the visitors on issues rarely discussed in the public domain, issues to do with our built environment, its impact, the political and social meanings attached to it, and the place of design in our lives. It is time now for these discussions to find their way into mainstream media - newspapers, television, etc. Without this extensive and critical coverage the debate about what makes for good architecture, and in turn a good city will never find resonance amongst the most important people in the world, our potential clients.
 
For the film I met with 24 architects, 3 academicians and 5 students of architecture in the city over the course of two weeks. I collected around 15 hours of footage, traveled close to 500 kms, and lost 5 kilos in the process]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000070.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000070.shtml Architexturez Microsite(s) Enaction and the Profession Conditions in Practice Contemporary Indian Architecture Professional Practice Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:17:32 +0530 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 personalities and events have made on my life. The deafening roar of the street, the family, the bureaucrat, the beggar, the MP, the builder, and the shopkeeper, are all condensed in the book as a virulent strain of muddled and diseased voices that pollute rivers, stage dharnas, rape college girls, adulterate food items, smuggle liquor or contaminate daily life in other ways. Whitewash is not a distillation, but a further confounding, a piece of visual and literary noise: 240 pages of a personal harangue of articles, advertising and misinformation - a sort of Yellow Pages of the social and political life of today. It is not a serious piece of writing, a literary work, but a personal catalogue of graphic, visual and verbal slime. Its truest representation is the view inside and outside the window - to the street, the city, the village, the family drawing room, the marketplace, and other containers of ordinary life. Prejudiced, dull, trivial, devious, despairing, crass, deceitful, blunt, arrogant, malicious, downright stupid, could all describe life in India. I hope they also describe the book. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000058.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000058.shtml Microsite: Gautam Bhatia (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Contemporary Indian Architecture Content Type: Essay Critique sataire Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:15:43 +0530 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 be willing to write a manifesto or two; when there is nothing to write he should be able to deliver a lecture on some obscure but promising new theory of design like the Proto Renaissance and its influence on Secular Architecture. Architect's credentials however must be impeccable - a diploma from a five-year programme from a recognized school, a specialist degree in some sort of related architectural field like urban design, city planning, backed by a specialist course in Third World Development Patterns from Princeton, Sorbonne or Harvard. Low-key, cool, gently urbane with just the right doses of reticence and cynicism, architect's expression should be a little aloof, the face always displaying a palpable concern at any discussion of rural poverty. Soft spoken, prone to mumbling when dealing with statistics, but able to debate freely in private forums of other architects, mixing historical references from obscure periods with contemporary design dictums, candidate should be able to discuss Akbar and Edwin Lutyens, the Bohra Houses of Gujarat and the ruins of Machu Piccu with equal passion. Must excel in the display of his grasp of Indian mythology, folklore and traditional texts, even though the feet may be firmly anchored in the latest trend from Amrica. On the whole a tough, insightful, deeply philosophical, but pragmatic individual, with a keen eye for tweed jackets and mufflers. Apply Box Box 999 http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000066.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000066.shtml Microsite: Gautam Bhatia (works)... Big People Parody The Architect in Society sataire Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:16:48 +0530
A tabloid with a difference, Whitewash is a disturbingly indiscreet piece of writing that rips apart conventional Indian notions of politics, equality, caste, gender, ownership, personal rights, heritage, love of country - all in a way that at once distresses and invigorates ]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000062.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000062.shtml Microsite: Gautam Bhatia (works)... Conflict Crisis of Institutions in India sataire Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:16:25 +0530 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 - towns whose loss could easily be sustained by the national budget; then the suburbs of Model town and Punjabi Bagh, then ancient Old Delhi and finally ancient New Delhi. At last, when the dust settled - in places at heights of forty feet - hardly anyone could escape. For us the results of the Mount Simla eruptions are both tragic and fortunate. Tragic because of the apocalyptic destruction of entire cities like New Delhi and Panipat, yet fortunate because the victims of these disasters have been preserved almost intact along with their handiwork - a silent but eloquent testimony to a special culture. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000180.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000180.shtml Microsite: Gautam Bhatia (works)... Architecture in the Age of McDonalds Crisis of Institutions in India Fantastic Buildings sataire Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:32:10 +0530
In 1970, Automotive Digest published a picture of the Ambassador car with the heading Old Cars Never Die, they only move to India. The golden anniversary of the Ambassador was celebrated a decade before the golden anniversary of India, and to applaud the union of the two giants, Random House recently released the definitive biography of the car called Ambassador's Journal. Whitewash obtained exclusive rights to Chapter 44.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000069.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000069.shtml Microsite: Gautam Bhatia (works)... Cars: The Ambassador Indian Design Conditions sataire Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:17:25 +0530 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 the property speculators, who either want to make money or glorify themselves. In other words, things have changed but little. As in the past, architects are asked to build buildings whose social nature has already been decided upon. Common decency would prohibit questions like what is the purpose of the building. Whom is it going to serve? Such questions are to be decided by the powerful. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000056.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000056.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Enaction Housing Manifesto Professional Practice Slums Urban Centres Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:14:42 +0530 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 they are universal–but also culture-specific needs, subsuming values, attitudes and beliefs. Thus, a ‘shelter’ implies a larger dimension of meaning to his life. But, in the Indian situation an architect’s repertory of expertise consists of ‘International Style’ or more simply, ‘Western Style.’ That style stemmed from the human condition in the? West and is at several removes from the culture-specific or socio-economic specifics of our situation. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000054.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000054.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Ideology Institutions Native Categories Professional Practice Symbolisation Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:14:42 +0530 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 experts. Certainly the architect has to find substitutes for brick, steel and concrete to meet the increasing shortage of basic materials. New methods to exploit the potential of these materials have to be found. Our resources of land, material and money demand new forms and new solutions to problems. The concept of rooms, the dimensions of which vary from ten feet to fifteen of eighteen feet in either direction, has to undergo change. There must be another solution to square or rectangular rooms with definite doors and windows. We cannot bypass the problem by saying the clients want it. Research in terms of sociological implications of building types, applied economics on cost, rent, installments, land price, etc, is necessary to meet with the demands and aspirations of clients. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000053.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000053.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Conventional Design Threshold Manifesto Mass Society The Client Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:14:42 +0530  
Is it any wonder, then, that there is a mass exodus of architects from the country?]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000052.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000052.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Manifesto Professional Practice Solo Architect Teaching Architecture Teamwork Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:14:42 +0530 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 built by master builders for their deeds and perpetuate their memory. This history, as told by religious and political leaders and historians for generations through legends, scriptures, folklore and books, has conditioned the sociocultural thinking and has established the architectural frame within which the architects view their role and the public forms its sense of appreciation. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000051.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000051.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Research Abstracts and Texts Conventional Design Threshold Ideology of the Modern Low-Cost Housing Manifesto Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:14:42 +0530  
- By Our Glib Reporter]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000064.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000064.shtml Microsite: Gautam Bhatia (works)... Architectural Media Criticality Parody sataire Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:16:34 +0530 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 of conceptual core there is something that can be termed as Asian Identity. There seems to exist a gamut of concepts and ideas that are Asian in nature especially due to an indistinguishable patina caused by the culture and religiosity. Symmetry for example can be debated at length from the mundane physical to supernatural extent. The superstitious and the banal have been given a place, materiality and form by social acceptance/agreement. The meaning of the word ‘Space’ as we use while accepting its western bearing and the architectural usage, does not have a similar translation in many or any of our Asian languages like the concept of ‘Oku’ would be hard to explain to a non Japanese Asian leave alone a westerner. Antariksh, Avakash and such are the translations given by the students while a Sanskrit scholar calls it ‘Dikkaal’ (direction and time) and another scholar is not satisfied with the translation! The word ‘design’, similarly has different connotation in the Asian mind compared with the clear idea of the word in a Western mind. Rachana is the often given translation for Design which as terminology is more appropriate for literature. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000057.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000057.shtml Curriculum Design Research Abstracts and Texts Education Institutions Keynote Address Overview Pedagogy Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:15:35 +0530  
The architects who called on the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on Tuesday the 12th, have suggested a dialogue between the slum dwellers and the designers. Such a dialogue is totally Missing today, the architects pointed out. They also expressed their concern over the deteriorating physical and social environments caused by the insensitive handling of massive housing projects for the poor. Slum dwellers generally have an identifiable and cohesive community life which tends to be overlooked by the administrators of these projects. This results in increase of social tensions in such colonies and takes away from the poor their most valuable asset—the collective spirit. Among the architects who met Mrs. Gandhi were the winners of the Low-Cost Housing competitions including H.D. Chyya, Satish Debral, Narendra Dengle, M.N. Ganju, Vinod Gupta, Vasant Kamat, Romi Khosla.
 
Mrs. Gandhi remarked that it was the first time that she had found architects being concerned about the social and physical quality of the environment of the poor in urban and rural areas. She welcomed the suggestions.
 
Patriot-13/8/75 ]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000045.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000045.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Enaction and the Profession Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Housing for the Poor Slums The Prime Minister's Office Urbanisation Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:13:46 +0530 Kutch as a region is characterized by its extreme intensities, the geographical space, the topographical formations, the climate, the vegetation-its flora and fauna, and of course its people. Anything, any aspect you choose to look at displays its intensity of extremes, which are as though its natural trait. Geographically it is still undergoing its transitional stage for settlement of its earth’s crust and thus still has its moments of thrust and upheavals at periodic intervals of decades and centuries. Vast desert expanses, also the hilly terrain, and the coastal landscape characterize its topography. Its climate is equally distributed between intense heat and extreme cold, however, it can give you a mix of both in harsh summer, as on a hottest day even, if you are in shade you feel the coolest comfort within your sheltered area, without requiring any mechanical device for ventilation! Its flora is dotted all along its landscape with a hardy shrubbery and its land if carefully cultivated can give you a rich plant life found anywhere in the country even the bamboos! It also has very rich herbal and medicinal plants, which provide nature cure. This is being manifest in the royal retreat known as Sharadbaug where almost all the species of Indian sub-continent are grown. Its fauna includes deadly scorpions to wild ass and camels. And above all these are the people of Kutch, which form the overall culture of this interesting region. The people comprise of the communities ranging from nomads, folk and the particular urban trading communities, which are world famous and are also dotted all over the world in forefront of trade and commerce. Their enterprising spirit and the sense have placed them as the top business magnate in the most important and progressive western countries. Thus the culture comprises also from most exquisite handicrafts to computer giant who also now happens to be one of the richest Indian in world community! The trading communities through their entrepreneurship, ventured from simple grocery business to computers, and like wise the crafts communities have excelled from beadwork to bell metals and the arts of shelter building! Their knowledge and understanding about the region and its physical characteristic has been instrumental in developing their sensibilities reflected in their arts and crafts. The land, the people, and their characteristic ambience have attracted the attention from world over. It is being constantly rediscovered and researched by the interested researchers, documentation experts and connoisseurs from other cultures. This has helped project various aspects of this region and its culture throughout the world. Every such effort has brought out an extra dimension to the already existing body of knowledge and its rich aura that permeates through the world civilization. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000032.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000032.shtml Microsite: Rabindra Vasavada (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Darbargarh Heritage Houseform The Kutch Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:12:02 +0530 There is a variety of approaches towards the solution of any architectural problem, ranging from an unabashed indulgence in heady architectonics to a more mature pursuit of gentleness in architecture. This latter approach concentrates on the creation of a complete environment where structures and the landscape, or the inside and the outside integrate into a benign matrix which orders human existence. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000036.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000036.shtml Research Abstracts and Texts GREHA MN Ashish Ganju TVB School of Habitat Studies Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:12:33 +0530 Human Settlements have grown and developed in the twentieth century as a direct consequence of the industrial enterprise of the 18th and 19th centuries, leading to the unregulated growth of urban agglomerations. In this process towns and cities have changed in nature to become showcases for technological advance, generally at the cost of civilised human intercourse. An important consequence of this has been the unchecked exploitation of natural resources resulting in a global environmental crisis which threatens the survival of the human race. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000027.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000027.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Patrick Geddes Settlements Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:11:28 +0530 The profession of architecture, as we know it today, has been practise for a relatively short time in India. Here we do make a distinction between the architect of today and the classical sthapati who was well-versed in vaastu vidya and astrology. The contemporary professional architect has emerged only in this century and has a markedly different training from the classical sthapati. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000028.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000028.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Identity Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) The Profession The Staphathi Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:11:35 +0530
Large supertankers, car ferries and container ships are beached during high tide, and as the tide recedes, hundreds of manual laborers dismantle each ship, salvaging what they can, and reducing the rest into scrap. Tens of thousands of low-paid jobs are supported by this activity, and millions of tons of steel are recovered.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000022.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000022.shtml Microsite: ...To Construct (Photo Essays) Alang Industrial Sites Ship Breaking Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:10:48 +0530 This book is the first in the series of works planned in the field of Indian Temple Architecture by the Project for the Studies in Indian Temple Architecture at the L. D. Institute of Indology. This work on the Mahavir Temple at Osia is undertaken as the beginning of such works in order to document and describe one of the oldest surviving Jain Temples in western India and also one of the most important from the viewpoint of Indian Temple Architecture. The temple is illustrated through measured drawings and photographs to describe the history of the building and also the changes it has seen during its several phases of restorations and additions. It also attempts to describe the buildings in terms of the spaces and built elements to inform the reader about the aspects of temple building arts employed during its various phases. It also discusses the attitudes to restoration adopted by the succeeding generations of traditional temple builders and their work of jeerṇoddhār to support the practice followed by Jaina patrons. The book is an attempt to record the historicity of the temple and the art it represents through important phases for the general readers and those interested to appreciate the history of western Indian temple architecture. It is hoped that it is received in this context and makes a meaningful contribution to the existing body of knowledge in this field. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000018.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000018.shtml Microsite: Rabindra Vasavada (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Hindu Temple Architecture Mahavira Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:10:13 +0530 http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000015.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000015.shtml Enaction and the Profession AZ: Plan Stub Keynote Address Land Distribution NGO Interference Slumming India Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:50:09 +0530 Schwerpunktprogramm of the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), architectural surveys have been carried out in Puri (December 1999) and in Ranpur (July 1999), the former centre of a feudatory state in the hinterland of coastal Orissa in northeast India. The Orissa Research Programme focuses on „Contested Centres“ and intends to unveil the mechanism of „construction and change of socio-cultural identities“ in Orissa. In this context a comparison between the imperial 12^th century temple of Jagannath in the very centre with its miniature version built by one of the Little Kings six-hundred years later reflects the Programme’s aims in a very tangible way. ]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000009.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000009.shtml Microsite: Rabindra Vasavada (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Hindu Temple Architecture ISBN 3-8053-2840-0 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:14:41 +0530  
COA and its Education Committee have foreseen this need and have taken necessary steps to prepare the profession/institutions for this scenario arising in our context. The COA has sounded/identified institutions with exemplary qualitative standards and history of educational excellence in the country and is combining with them to initiate a post-graduate program which actually prepares faculty for architecture.
 
Post-graduate program in Architectural Education is not yet an offered discipline in India and is not even realised as an important input for the faculty of architecture in our country or for that matter in many countries. A professional with a theoretical bent of mind gets into teaching institutions and at times professional involvement itself becomes an important criterion to be a ‘teacher’. This although is true in itself but, not always, as there is a tremendous difference between understanding theory of architecture and consciously use that as your driving force in conceptualising the buildings that one designs. In a sense the way designing of building is practised, the forces that shape the results are far too many to leave the architects into their single minded pursuit of their theoretical concepts and understandings in achieving results. That is why the theoretical knowledge which provides the basis for a conscious architectural problem solving, sometimes is pushed behind by the overriding practical considerations and if professionals adapted to such predicaments are involved in teaching, the quality of education suffers. This is why the need to initiate such a programme with an emphasis to identify and train the faculty which can commit to an emphasis which is required for training of teachers in architecture.
 
Also see: ABA-NET: CEPT Initiative]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000039.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000039.shtml Curriculum Design Microsite: Rabindra Vasavada (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts CEPT University Curriculum Curriculum Design M.Arch Course in Architectural Education Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:12:57 +0530  
A major recommendation of the Study Group is the concept of Habitat Schools which will provide Bachelors Courses in Habitat Planning, Habitat Management and Architecture, three year Diploma Course in Habitat Engineering and training in building skills with special emphasis on social aspects, low cost technologies and extension methods will promote a hierarchy of skills required for facilitating housing and human settlement development in a desirable manner.
 
It is hoped that this report will provide a meaningful basis for restructuring technical education in the country to meet the requirements of housing and human settlements.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000035.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000035.shtml Curriculum Design Document Archive: GREHA 1989-CDHS Action Plan Curriculum Design Education Habitat Schools Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:12:28 +0530 The architectural profession has approached the crossroads in its development in India, and the direction it now chooses will determine both its effectiveness in serving society, and the validity of its future existence. In this respect the profession must take the initiative in considering the relevant factors concerning its future options, rather than have them forced upon it through necessity or expediency. These factors have either been ignored or have only been considered in a haphazard and piecemeal manner for too long and, thus, they have had no perceptible impact on the profession to date. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000033.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000033.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Architectural Practice Problematique Seminar Thematics Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:12:10 +0530 Meanwhile, back in India, these books only emphasize more than before that the great architecture of forms is created in the developed countries only and that our own architects in India are borrowing bits and pieces from there and sticking them together on to their ‘mini-masterpieces’ which can neither afford Le Corbusier’s lavish concrete sculptures nor the slick sky scrapers coming out of the SOM offices. Our own new directions in architecture lie totally away from the dream forms of the West with their slick detailing and sophisticated building industry. We have bricks, a little cement and steel, some expensive glass,... and significantly, a vast working population that doesn't have shelter to live in. Shall we still compete with the West in discovering new foms or does our choice lie elsewhere? http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000055.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000055.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Book Review Charls Jencks Le Corbusier Modernist Architecture Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:12:10 +0530 The shift of the capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911 necessitated the building of the imperial city of New Delhi. The design of this city and its principal buildings was entrusted to Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Barker, both being architects well versed in the neo-classical tradition flowing from the European renaissance. Their designs were expected to symbolise the grandeur and power of the British Empire as evident at the beginning of this century. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000029.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000029.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Development Norms Lutyens Bungalow Zone Planning Norms Prognosis Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:11:42 +0530 In our country, environment has been our way of life. The real design happens at indigenous levels, with minimum material resources but maximum usefulness and rich aesthetics. Earlier, our sthapaties built towns evolving from within the communities and ecoculture of the place. Today, the builder builds for who ever can afford. The changes come from outside from the market forces, not from within. Consumerism is destroying our aesthetics. Fashion or stylisation is not design. It is only a short lived fragment. We are becoming a faceless society. There is crisis of identity and rootlessness. There is urgent need to attend to the fast developing scenario. This be done in intelligent, organised and involved efforts. There by tune our professional disciplines, academics and regulating acts and agencies sensitive and relevant to the dynamics of the Indian aspirations of joyful, healthy and safe environments. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000017.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000017.shtml Research Abstracts and Texts Council of Architecture (CoA) Education Regulation The Profession Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:52:29 +0530  
As knowledge and information increase exponentially, rote learning as an educational method becomes increasingly irrelevant. The educational task in the future will be to develop the ability to acquire, synthesise and apply knowledge appropriately as changing problems and possibilities present themselves; to draw new forms and patterns out of the raw material: the ability in other words to be creative.
 
The method of teaching I shall describe in this paper is a particular way of organising project work of release and channel the creativity of students and also of teachers.
 
This paper will uncover the underlying principles of this method, which I have called the Atelier Principle in Teaching, by describing the organisation of teaching in the School of Architecture at the University of East London. In the process I hope to demonstrate its relevance to other disciplines.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000013.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000013.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Research Abstracts and Texts Design Knowledge Design Studio Teaching Architecture The Atelier Principle Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:23:16 +0530 Many of us who sit on the other side of the table to select young teachers in Architecture, have an exasperating experience. Most applicants when asked to name the subject they would like to teach, come with the answer without batting an eye lid, ‘architectural design’! If this is generally so, then it raises a number of questions. Is Design teaching considered easier than other subjects say. Specification or Construction? Being generally a part of a group of Design Teachers does he/she feel that individual responsibility is reduced? Is the image of a Design Teacher more ‘prestigious’? These and many such questions may come to our mind. Don’t we know the answers? Atlesat, when many of us were such candidates, we did know the answer. Only now some of us feel that the answers were not correct. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000012.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000012.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Design Education Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) Recommendation Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:15:47 +0530 We define Architecture – as Mother of all Arts. Art cannot really be separated from the most practical consideration. Architecture is the process of thought, to visualise, to conceptualize and to learn the flow of thought process in evolution of designs. In today’s technological advancements, information technological growth and scientific innovations, Art and Architecture has become very complex and sensitive. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000011.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000011.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Education Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) Recommendation Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:15:41 +0530 This paper describes the findings of a tour of heritage buildings in the Indian state of Gujarat which were affected by the Bhuj earthquake of 26th January 2001. After a general introduction to the earthquake and its effects, a description is given of the damage suffered by princely palaces and religious buildings in Bhuj, JamNagar, Wankaner, Morbi, Maliya, Halvad, Dranghedra and Ahmadabad. 40 photos of the damage are included. The paper closes with conclusions and recommendations concerning the repair and maintenance of heritage buildings in Gujarat, and some observations on how the seismic response of massive masonry structures differs from that of engineered structures in reinforced concrete or steel. A modified version of this paper will be published in the EEFIT general report on the Bhuj earthquake. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000010.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000010.shtml Microsite: Rabindra Vasavada (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Historical Buildings Post-Earthquake Evaluation Structural Evaluation Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:44:40 +0530 GREHA, since its inception in 1974, has concentrated on the growth of knowledge in the field of Environmental development and Architecture. The thrust of GREHA's efforts has been towards addressing issues of the majority of the Indian population, where the central concerns were of addressing poverty and basic shelter requirements, as well as developing knowledge and methodologies concerning settlement systems more suited to our history and cultural context. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000008.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000008.shtml Curriculum Design Document Archive: GREHA 1989-CDHS Curriculum Habitat Schools Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:40:20 +0530 Today, with almost a hundred architectural schools in this country training a new generation of professionals to direct the future of our built environment, it is surprising to note the pedagogic content and course material in these schools. The architectural programme is derived in a large measure from experience of the industrial enterprise of the 19th and early 20th century. What has been neglected is the essential relationship between materials and energy, which gives raise to life-sustaining configurations realised through technologies appropriate to the amelioration of the human condition. this is resulting in an unfortunate poverty of ideas and inspiration which is reflected in the ugliness of contemporary architecture and the chaos of our cities. The promise of a better life in the next century is therefore in danger of being denied. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000007.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000007.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Research Abstracts and Texts Education Institutions Seminar Thematics Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:38:49 +0530 Educational systems have to keep up with the rapid pace of socio-economic change. Constant re-interpretation and definition of goals becomes essential especially in regions that have evolved on a traditional knowledge. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000006.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000006.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Curriculum TVB School of Habitat Studies Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:37:25 +0530 Many years ago when I was invited to deliver my first talk on architecture of the Indian traditions, I went with great enthusiasm and spoke about the wonders of the texts and of the monuments. I went into raptures about the building techniques and explained the myths and misconceptions regarding the sculptor and the architect of the traditions. But today, about 15 years down the line, when I am faced with the task of having to speak about our 'great legacy' to yet another generation of Indians who have either lost touch or who have given up the task of keeping the continuity going, I am aware of a strange feeling of weariness and an enormous futility. To counter this feeling, I am placing the universe of the traditional thought into a slightly different framework which may provoke the 'sleeping Indian consciousness' to examine its own dilemma and perhaps move to a different crossroad of design and aesthetics. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000005.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000005.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Research Abstracts and Texts Craft Education Vaastu Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:36:31 +0530 This paper was discussed in the first session of the symposium named “The Learning Universe”. The organisers had suggested to focus on the issues towards “... evolving architectural consciousness which allows us to learn from our experiences of the everyday world, transform this into knowledge and ability to recognise wisdom... integrity of mind and body, material and spiritual values with concerns for civilization (and cultural) values” http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000004.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000004.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Research Abstracts and Texts Curriculum Education Vedic Architecture Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:36:16 +0530 The concept of group housing or collective housing, where homes share land and community facilities and are built together to standard designs through a single agency, has its beginning in contemporary India during the first quarter of this century. First, it was the setting up of the colonial state machinery and the consolidation of the Armed Forces that promoted the provision of family homes by the employer. Later, a similar pattern was adopted by pioneering industry and the new institutions of learning for whom townships and campuses were developed on greenfield sites in order to settle new communities. This form of housing provision – design and construction of typical units by a central agency, with an object of sharing land and community amenities – was a natural answer to institutional employment. Those who shared the housing estate and its amenities were cast in the common culture of the institution. The housing community had a basis for sharing and being together. But, significantly all such housing was tied to employment. It was not a system of providing houses for ownership. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000001.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000001.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Approperiate Technology Group Housing Housing Middle Income Housing Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:33:20 +0530  
In recent times conservation practice has been determined by the notion of ‘cultural property’, whether at the scale of objects like painting and sculpture and everyday-use objects, or buildings and groups of buildings, or environments like towns and cities and natural regions like forests and watershed areas and park lands, etc. Regarding these as ‘property’ leads to determining their physical dimensions so that they can be protected over time during which period their value will be enhanced, primarily for purposes of transfer and exchange. We assign value in such a scenario to an object, building, or environment according to our view of history as a record of empires. The instruments of such protection become physical enclosures as well as social enclaves which can only be sustained effectively as elites. Thus the practice of conservation becomes an exercise dependent on boundary determination and exclusivity.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000026.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000026.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Conservation Sustainibility Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:11:20 +0530 In the past human settlements, both in rural and urban areas, have grown in an evolutionary manner. In this century the forces of industrial development have accelerated the rate of growth of urban settlements. This has given rise to organized efforts for planned development of urban areas. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000025.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000025.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Curriculum Design Habitat Schools Village Planning Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:11:12 +0530 Slums have become endemic to urban development as the twentieth century has witnessed the twin-phenomena of industrial development and globalisation at a runaway pace. At the end of this century we find that the urban population of the planet is in a majority. Whereas in industrially developed nations the growth of technology has been translated directly into benefits for the urban population, in India, as in other lesser-industrially-developed nations, the benefits of technology have not resulted in improved living conditions for the majority of the population. More than two-thirds of India’s population still lives in rural settlements which are systemically excluded from the significant benefits of technological development. This has resulted in an ever-increasing migration of the rural population to the larger urban centres in search of economic betterment and improve living conditions. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000024.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000024.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Discourse on Poverty Slums Urban Systems Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:11:05 +0530  
At this time when there is so much talk of the new millennium, we need to examine thoughtfully the agenda which we place before society. It is in this context that the promise of a humane habitat, especially for the great majority which is excluded from the benefits of the progress made in the 20th century, becomes especially relevant and somewhat ironic.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000023.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000023.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Competition Outcomes IAHH ICHH Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:10:58 +0530 The majority of our people still live in a rural environment, Demographic statistics indicate that over 70% of the population of India is living in rural areas. Yet the context of our educational programmes is predominantly urban in character. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000031.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000031.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Education Urban-Rural 'Divide' Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:11:55 +0530  
report available < here >]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000040.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000040.shtml Curriculum Design Document Archive: GREHA 1989-CDHS Curriculum Habitat Schools TVB School of Habitat Studies Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:13:05 +0530  ,br /> The private mother vehicle which has occupied a privileged position in our environmental structuring is fast losing its charm. The same could be said of the large suburban house with all is status-making trappings. Even our institutional buildings which in the past tended to have a monumental and prestige-establishing character can now be looked at afresh. If we have to re-examine the way we construct our buildings or organise any part of our physical environment, we must in all fairness also think about what we expect in terms of performance. We could begin by trying to establish exactly what we prize most in our environmental structuring.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000042.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000042.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Affordable Housing Development Discourse Low-Cost Housing Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:13:21 +0530 "The problem in terms of increased building activity in cities-pace of urban development related to migration.... The search for alternative building materials. Important to define the performance requirements of the material. Performance related to habitability. " http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000030.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000030.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Building Materials Construction Process Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:11:49 +0530 Residential community architecture for the common man has most often been seen as an extension of the ‘public works’ effort. Within this genre it has been treated as a low priority item, only befitting such terminology as “low-cost housing” for ‘low-income residents’. It has over the years become the preserve of out-of-favour civil engineers and economic statisticians. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000037.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000037.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Housing Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:12:41 +0530 The National Building Organisation together with the U.N. Regional Housing Centre organised a National Consultation on Low Cost Housing in November. The participants included representatives of State Housing Boards, HUDCO, CBRI, SERC, ISI, TCPO, DDA and Rural Housing Wings, as well as a few private architects and planners. As might have been expected of such a gathering, there was a great diversity of views expressed. One got the impression that the speakers outnumbered the listeners. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000041.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000041.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Affordable Housing Infrastructural Facilities for Housing Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:13:14 +0530 People today are pouring into the cities of the developing world, swelling their numbers and size. Every year the new urban populations fall farther and farther behind in adequately meeting their housing needs. The growth of squatter settlements becomes a measure of the housing deficiency. It we look at the resources of these cities and their national governments, or at the housing and community development programmes of the United Nations and other international organisations, we see little hope that money from these sources can be found to provide conventional housing solutions. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000047.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000047.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Housing for the Poor Seminar Thematics Spatial-Analytic Matrics Urbanisation Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:14:07 +0530 Whenever the problem of providing low-cost houses for the Indian urban dwellers is discussed it generally arouses feelings of dismay and pessimism. For, when the requirement is presented in concrete figures, its cost seems impossibly high compared to the spending capacity of the people and the government. This staggering disparity between the means and ends is one of the reasons why enough serious effort is not being made to find realistic solutions to the problem. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000046.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000046.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Affordable Housing Construction Site in India Planimetric Structures Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:13:59 +0530 The concept of ‘group housing’ calls for some essential differences from the familiar model of plot housing which one finds generally in New Delhi. For plot housing, infrastructural facilities, such as roads, drainage, electric supply, water supply, etc. are made by the housing Society/Municipal authorities, and each house owner is free to build his house, on a discrete piece of developed land, to his own taste, within the provisions of the building bye-laws. In group housing, the idea of private ownership of land does not-hold good, and houses as well as infrastructural facilities have to be provided cooperatively. This results in a certain amount of standardization in houses designs and types; inevitably, every house owners precise requirements may not be fully translated into the house provided to him. And, since every house is not surrounded by a privately owned garden, there is a loss of privacy for the individual dwelling. There are other planning controls laid down by the Master Plan for Delhi, and these fix the maximum area that can be covered on the ground by building, the number of houses to be built per acre, the maximum amount of floor space that can be built on any particular plot, the amount of green area to be left for children's play lots, community facilities like nursery schools tobe provided, car and scooter parking provisions to be made, and several other such requirements which the design must take into account. The designers task is therefore to fashion out of these constraints, and the other normal constraints of climate, constructional technology available and the economic fixes, a culturally and socially viable environment which makes community living a pleasant experience. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000048.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000048.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Group Housing Press Association Co-Op Housing Project Report Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:14:15 +0530  
Traditionally the individual who has built his own house has been intricately involved in the whole process. This made it possible for his identity to be established in his environment. Today the pace of development has taken away this close tie between the individual and the creation of his own environment. Large numbers of people are “designed for” by centralised agencies. This can cause further alienation unless the centralised agency concentrates on understanding the new demands of the housing activity and makes the process responsive once again to the individual needs. The task is, therefore, to evolve design strategies which allow the individual to participate once again in the building process.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000044.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000044.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Design Framework Mass Housing People's Participation Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:13:36 +0530  
As result, a very serious demand for appropriately trained architects has surfaced within the profession. Architects are needed at all levels of the development process. The greatest potential for employment still remains with the public sector-government agencies as well as public sector corporations. However, the private sector is increasingly finding an expanding role in development works, both at the formal and informal levels, thus generating a very large employment potential for appropriately trained architects.
 
Since the conditions obtaining in our country are often similar to conditions in many other third world countries, it is anticipated that the course would attract students from these other countries, and the products of this school would find a productive and prominent place in the profession all over the third world.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000034.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000034.shtml Curriculum Design Document Archive: GREHA 1989-CDHS Curriculum Design School of Design (proposed) Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:12:21 +0530 chota talab which is adjacent to the upper lake and defined at that end by Bhoja’s dam and fort. From the interiorized urban space of Khirniwalla maidan (of old Bhopal) which flanks the upper lake, to the exteriorized statement of building in the landscape, the search is for the essence of a space that can address overlapping fragments of memory as new meets old in 21^st century India, and make a significant gesture to the lake. (2) An approach to the development of this heritage building, which is sensitive and sympathetic but not over-protective. It looks at the ways of conveying the past as a fragment that allows one to reconstruct previous history, yet to be reintegrated proactively into a new configuration. (3) The relationship and continuing validity of Gandhi Park and the nature of this new landscape as a public zone within a private sphere. (4) The lake strategy – The perception of the lake and its history and the need to preserve that memory. Creating a secondary water strip along the edge of the site and sequencing the quiet mediative functions along that front. (5) A model for solar passive design strategies and the recycling of rain water within the site. ]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000021.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000021.shtml Microsite: Process-Media Architectural Design Process Competition Entry Educational Campus Process-Media Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:10:39 +0530 The Freedom Park site is: (1) Peripheral to the old city and peripheral to the new cantonment; it is significant that it lies on the main North South Axis from the Old Fort (through settlements and jail) to the Palace. (2) The urban landscape along the old axial street is one wherein the old fragment/ruin that dot the surface {is a marker of history in the built landscape}. The markers enable a {reconstruction by memory} of the underlying order of the city. (3) Clearly the strategy must be for {revitalization of the area through instructive recreation, leisure and information}. The broad strategy is to strengthen points along the axis - which can become a point of reference / cognition for historic Bangalore and represents shift from power invested in monarchy to democracy. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000020.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000020.shtml Microsite: Process-Media Architectural Design Process Competition Entry Freedom Park Design competition Landscape Architecture Process-Media Urban Park Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:10:34 +0530 The site at the RV College of Engineering, Bangalore proposed for the MCA Block, Bio-Technology Block and Class Room Block poses a challenge that is exciting in being on the ‘edge’ of the institution. Being built at this time, these departments will mark the entry of the institution into the service and field of these emerging technologies in the world. The presence of the Samadhi was important in addition to the overall layout of the roads and adjoining existing blocks of the institute. Being in a kind of corner that is not very visible from many parts of the overall institution it became important to define the presence of the new buildings. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000019.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000019.shtml Microsite: Process-Media Architectural Design Process Competition Entry Educational Campus Process-Media RV College of Engineering Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:10:28 +0530 A wonderful analogue of 'prism' is coined by the organizers of this Symposium in context of architecture. If this is extended a bit further the three sides of this prism are culture, patronage and building arts. All these combined result into architecture of an era and when one probes through this prism, it refracts into various hues, which emerge from whichever facet you view this from. Culture reflects the way of life at a specified time. It includes the level of taste, aspirations and social richness which is reflected through the artistic and creative expressions of various arts. Patronage of these impulses is an indicator of the measure of need and awareness for collective identity. Building arts are indicative of the level of technological skills and the craftsmanship traditionally evolved at a specific time. Patronage is a measure of nobility that existed in prosperous communities which took upon themselves the responsibilities to uphold the traditional heritage and nurture the artistic expressions signifying the cultural traits, cohesive, harmonious, artistic through true to the life style, was the character of the settlements of bygone era, which was a result of collective, mutually agreeable, tasteful but true to the traditional culture of the society it represented. Collective will against individual interests, and the ideals of mutually shared community identity and existence was of paramount interest in the social thinking and responsibility. Material interests were always present but were not paramount and welfare of community at large was always a moral goal for the social harmony and well being. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000229.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000229.shtml Microsite: Rabindra Vasavada (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Evolving Architecture Gujarat Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:02:48 +0530  
Traditionally the individual who has built his own house has been intricately involved in the whole process. This made it possible for this identity to be established in his environment. Today the pace of development has taken away this close tie between the individual and the creation of his own environment. Large numbers of people are “designed for” by centralised agencies. This can cause further alienation unless the centralised agency concentrates on understanding the new demands of the housing activity and makes the process responsive once again to the individual needs. The task is, therefore, to evolve design strategies which allow the individual to p-participate once again in the building process.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000043.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000043.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Affordable Housing Design Framework Mass Housing People's Participation Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:13:28 +0530 We start with a question – “Can our architectural language be such that it is easily understood by ordinary people?” The question is based on the assumption that, at present, this is not the case. This assumption is, of course, the expression of a personal belief, but I think one that is shared by a large number of people, including fellow architects. Modern architecture has become something of a curiosity for the common person, somewhat like ‘modern art’ – which is to be appreciated without deriving meaning from it. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000228.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000228.shtml Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Aesthetics Construction Process Design Method Keynote Address Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:57:10 +0530
Photo Essay from GREHA Archive]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000219.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000219.shtml Document Archive: GREHA Microsite: ...To Construct (Photo Essays) Microsite: MN Ashish Ganju (works)... Hive Intelligence Migration Settlements Shelter Meanings Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:50:09 +0530 http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000227.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000227.shtml Microsite: Jaimini Mehta (works)... Classroom Techniques Design Education Pedagogy Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:41:08 +0530 A school of architecture, therefore, cannot be content to simply meet currently perceived needs of the profession. While it must continue to provide the basic competencies required for today's practice, it has the obligation to look beyond them and engender a culture of criticism conspicuously absent in our country. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000225.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000225.shtml Microsite: Jaimini Mehta (works)... CEPT University Council of Architecture (CoA) Education IIT Kharagpur Kala Bhavan Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:40:57 +0530 http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000224.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000224.shtml Microsite: Jaimini Mehta (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Aesthetics Critique Taste Cultures Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:40:50 +0530 Interestingly, this concept of , Goanness is still being evolved; we will 'know' what constitutes Goan architecture only when we see it expressed in temporal forms. A survey of architecture in the forty years since independence shows various strands of this search for expression; this essay, however, will examine not just the present architectural trends but also trends that began to reveal themselves in the last years of Portuguese rule. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000230.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000230.shtml Microsite: Jaimini Mehta (works)... Evolving Architecture Goa Overview Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:40:41 +0530 The inference is unmistakable; the historian must identify with the "spirit of the age" as Prof. Gideon refers to them a number of times in that book. Extended further this line of logic would also imply that there is involved here an inevitable selection from among the vast undistinguishable past and that the criteria of this selection will have to be the prevailing values with which the historian identifies. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000223.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000223.shtml Microsite: Jaimini Mehta (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Criticality Professional Ethics Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:40:34 +0530 http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000222.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000222.shtml Microsite: Jaimini Mehta (works)... Research Abstracts and Texts Aesthetics Aporishm Design Synthesis Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:40:26 +0530 < here > >>
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compare, especially years [ 2003 ] and [ 2005 ] ¬ growth in complexity...]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000003.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000003.shtml Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:21:27 +0530

Pertaining to generation of a integrated knowledge –base from fragments drawn form diverse academic disciplines;

Of relationship between formal knowledge and socially acquired cultural specific knowledge which is held mostly inarticulate especial in third world countries;

Explicating the relationship between profession, education, and building practice, in order to define the relationship between cultural specifically and architectural production, both historically and in present time;

To provide formal training to potential teachers in various skills that an architect may need to use;

Pertaining to teaching methodologies specific to various courses of study especially design studio; and the related problems of horizontal and vertical integration between various subject areas.

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Persuant Bhopal Memorial Competition, 2005. Intended to develop a memorial complex for the victims of gas tragedy that occurred on 3 Dec.1984 at Union Carbide premises, Bhopal. The aftermath of this competition, regardelss of the merits of the projects that were awarded, is bound to be controversial. Attracting the attention of citizens, professionals, government organisations, media and even the NGO and other vested interestes.]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000081.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000081.shtml Architexturez Microsite(s) Competition Outcomes Enaction and the Profession Bhopal Memorial Competition Competition Media Interference Professional Ethics Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:16:38 +0530 Moss House, Udaipur
ref: In-Enaction: scan: Moss House: 1 and 2 and (offsite) detail: Moss House window ...]]> http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000214.shtml http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-listing/000214.shtml Microsite: ...To Construct (Photo Essays) Microsite: Process-Media Construction Process Construction Site in India Labour The Notion of Expenditure Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:24:15 +0530 Learning by Doing still remains the effective learning method for architects. Thus studio exercises will be the he any school curricula whereby a student is exposed to a variety of real or f theoretical situations in which he is expected to take certain decision, become aware of, and express, his intentions and choices thru coherent visual form. However, method can also degenerate into goings-on with superficial projects schools fail to cultivate a critical attitude amongst the students about the purpose of their preparation. For without a sensiitivity to the Ideas that inform architecture all architects will have a tend to fall back on the technical and v fashions in vogue at the time and I that fine cutting edge, a restlessnes essential for each of them to become force in the society rather than of the society. http://www.architexturez.net/+/subject-