TECHNOLOGY
The City in Your Pocket
Architects kai Kasugai and Philipp Hoppe have tried to enrich urban sites using
virtual dimension of information and technology.
City as Particle System
Vesna Petresin Robert and Laurent-Paul Robert provide an insight about how
particle physics offers a new space of knowledge, lending a hand to urban planning.
OPTION
Reinventing the Wheel
Mitchell Joachim and MIT Media Lab challenges to change the urban streetscape
with their Transology project which rethinks the urban mobility through ecological
design.
PRODUCT DESIGN
Blending Practicality with Creativity
Profiling product designer Franscico Gamex Paz and his pragmatic approach
towards creativity and design.
PUBLIC ART
Rooted in Concrete
Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein experiment with a design concept, the
Ancient Tree, that boarders on the free hand drawing exercise.
FROM THE STUDIO
Data Visualisation : Exploring Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in India
M P Ranjan and Rupesh Vyas discuss methods of translating digital data to
Facilitate design.
OPINION
Architecture, Interaction, System
Usman Haque explores the need to design objects and spaces that are interactive.
ARCHITECTURE
The Eye of the Future
The Infosys campuses are a narrative of the interesting history in architectural
culture and theory and the new focus it is acquiring today.
Healing Habitat
Reviewing the Vastaad Lahuji Salve Arogya Kendra that brings a new healing
experience to the historic district of Aurangabad.
INTERNATIONAL
Exploring Uniquesess
Exploring the works of office da, the Boston-based architecture and design firm that
aims at exploring unique material qualities in conjuction with both traditional and
digital techniques.
Hyperreality
Featuring the projects of Jordon Parnass Digital Architecture which create spaces
that encourages new precedents in social behaviour.
NOTHING CONCRETE
The Nature of Architecture
G. Shankar Narayan explores the issues that concern the effect of architecture on
People.
LESSONS FROM TRADITION
Vision and its Consequences
Parul Zaveri and Nimish Patel addresses the reality of 'sustainability' in India.
PLANNING
Those Five Myths
Christopher Charles Benninger takes an incisive look at the myths that blur the
planning and visions of cities.
LOCUS
Pirate
Rahul Srivastava & Matias Echanove take a closer look at the issues revolving
around Dharavi's Koliwada in the Dharavi Redevelopment Project.
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