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Architect in Practice at Vadodara.
 
Director; Kala Bhavan, Vadodara; and Goa College of Architecture, Goa. Visiting Professor; Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad; and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
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+ 2006-06-07: Analogues of Architecture [2938 words]
Now that is rather a strange reason for making a model for these days we do not associate a model as an instrument of estimation; we have better and far more accurate ways of doing that. So why do architects make models, if they ever do? (for there ...
keywords: Classroom Techniques… Design Education… Pedagogy…

+ 2006-06-07: Architectural Education in India (overview) [3525 words]
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 ...
keywords: CEPT University… Council of Architecture (CoA)… Education… IIT Kharagpur… Kala Bhavan…

+ 2006-06-07: Being at Home [1323 words]
Often we hear people complain that modern architects produce only unimaginative boxes. Though not entirely justifiable, they do have a point. But if the ‘boxes’ do not make us feel at home, the answer is not in rejecting all contemporary practices nor it is in indiscriminate and eclectic ...
keywords: Aesthetics… Critique… Taste Cultures…

+ 2006-06-07: Architecture of Goa [1989 words]
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 ...
keywords: Evolving Architecture… Goa… Overview…

+ 2006-06-07: Contingent Criticality [3775 words]
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 ...
keywords: Criticality… Professional Ethics…

+ 2006-06-07: Disequilibrium [3399 words]
It will be evident not in economically stratified society manifesting in low, middle or upper income housing estates (an inherently repressive and exploitative system), but in an architecture whose formal validity will have been linked with the timeless desires of Man, free of such fragmentations. ... And it ...
keywords: Aesthetics… Aporishm… Design Synthesis…

+ 2005-06-29: Good, Useful and Beautiful [3061 words]
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 ...
keywords: Aesthetics… Critique… Design Language… Taste Cultures… Values in Architecture…

+ 2005-06-07: Fool's Paradise [5142 words]
When these images are fragmented and the pieces are thrown around, like in the case of a recently built Playhouse in an American University which sports a facade of a barn, what they convey is not so much the image of a fragmented, high speed life but an ...
keywords: Critique… Culture of Architecture… Form and Function… Modernist Architecture…

+ 2004-06-07: Book Review: Balkrishna Doshi: An architecture for India [1848 words]
In view of Doshi's immense contribution to buildings and architectural education, it is only natural that he has for himself a permanent place in the of. contemporary Indian architecture. close on the heels of a number of national and international awards comes a major book devoted to Doshi's ...
keywords: Balkrishna Doshi… Book Review… ISBN 0-8478-0937-4… William Curtis…

+ 2003-02-16: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness [1309 words]
I have been thinking about this and have come to a startling conclusion that this may have something to do with the very notion of freedom with which we associate this housing. This may come as a surprise to many but the very roots of our suburban housing ...
keywords: American House… Conventional Morphologies… Critique… Indian City… The Street…

+ 2002-12-29: Reflective Action: Experience Sublimated [4397 words]
The objective of this seminar is to reflect, through the theme of identity and territory, on the practice of social science in India. Regular exchanges and confrontations concerning our different fieldwork in South India have brought to light a concern common to all social science disciplines. Even though ...
keywords: Aesthetics… Design Synthesis… Louis Kahn…

+ 2002-12-29: Towards a New Pedagogy [5662 words]
In short, the school must become a place where, for a student, all the morphological and structural conceptions and all the operational tools, which have thus far governed architecture, become open to question. A vast set of alternatives and variables, which the institutional culture and profession has suppressed, ...
keywords: Crisis of Institutions in India… Education… Overview… Pedagogy…

+ 2002-12-28: The Hut and the Machine [7002 words]
I contend that architecture failed to grasp its own soul, and lost its public persona, when confronted with a crisis of identity. The separation from engineering and subsequent search for identity missed the point that architecture is a knowledge system. A closer study of pre-eighteenth century Western as ...
keywords: Aesthetics… Experience of Architecture… Rationalisation…

+ 2002-10-17: Universal and Eternal [ on Louis Kahn ] [4126 words]
Architecture is an idea; its constituent elements are the institutions it serves. A building has not only a unique organization of institutions but also a unique conception of "organization" itself. Every spatial element in Kahn's buildings is dedicated to an institution. It is in this "making of ...
keywords: Design Language… Design Representation… Louis Kahn… Modernist Architecture in India… Vocabulary…