pioneer architects

A pillar of modern Indian architecture

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B.V. Doshi kept the local context in mind at a time when contemporary ideas from the west are blinding us from delving deep into the identities, potentials and realities of designing for India

Sathya Prakash Varanashi

BV Doshi (1927-2023) | Pioneer of Indian modernist architecture

Heritage experts floored by the beauty of Panagal temples

The Hindu Bureau

The last of Corbusier’s gifts to India

Creating spongy cities

Sujatha Shankar Kumar

Brasilia’s main avenue or ‘central vista’ designed by world-famous architect Oscar Niemeyer.

New Delhi | Exhibition: the making of Brazil’s dream city Brasília, built around a ‘central vista’

Daily Quiz | Asian UNESCO World Heritage Sites outside India

Worked to connect two great symbols of Varanasi— Ganga and the Kashi temple, says Bimal Patel on Kashi Vishwanath corridor

Steven Holl at IIM, Ahmedabad in March 2015.

Disobedience is important for an architect: Steven Holl

Durganand Balsavar

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A look at the upcoming forest trail at Mumbai’s Malabar Hill

Gira at the Sarabhai Foundation in 1998.

Gira, on her own terms

Navroze Contractor

Famed German architect Helmut Jahn dies in bike accident

(Left to right) Speakers Ambrish Arora, Vicky Richardson and Riyaz Tayyibji

India Design Forum’s virtual debates look at rethinking the scope of architecture

A snapshot of Ishaara, a restaurant in Mumbai designed by Minnie Bhatt

The post-Covid design brief for restaurants and offices

The CURA in Turin, Italy

In Italy, two designers convert shipping containers into COVID-19 care pods

Architect Ranjit Sabikhi and (right) a snapshot of the book’s cover

The shape of our cities: On Ranjit Sabikhi’s latest book, A Sense of Space

Remembering S.L. Chitale

Durganand Balsavar

In this image made available on April 16, 2019, flames and smoke rise from the blaze as the spire topples over on Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.

Rebuilding Notre Dame will be long, fraught and expensive

New Delhi Municipal Council Building, Kuldip Singh

The beauty of Brutalism

Susanna Myrtle Lazarus

‘I was brought up with stories and myths, which continue to dominate my life.’

I realise that life is intangible, says eminent architect B.V. Doshi

Durganand Balsavar

Kowdiar Palace and gardens, after it was redesigned by Dr. Krumbiegel
Photo courtesy: Sharat Sunder Rajeev

Designing cities for tomorrow

Le Corbusier buildings named world heritage sites

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Shailaja Tripathi

28bgp 100 walls

It’s all geometry