The United Nations Conference on Human Environment was an international conference held under United Nations in Stockholm, Sweden, from June 5, 1972, to June 16, 1972. The objective of the…
Growing up in a city like Kolkata, surrounded by heritage architectural buildings can be a paramount facet of a child’s ideology towards buildings and their aesthetics. However, in terms of…
Architecture started with a need for a purpose for human beings to survive. The buildings, roads, bridges, and cities are for its people only. There would have been none of…
“Architecture is a social act and the material theatre of human activity.”– Spiro Kostof. While flipping through our history books, it is evident that architecture is one of the only…
From the moment we wake up and till the moment we go back to sleep, we are most likely surrounded by man-made spaces. Our entire lives, all our moments and…
Architectural compositions are designed for human needs and functions so their scale and proportion should be in coordination with the form and function. But, what is scale? Scale in architecture…
Showa Sekkei is an architectural design company from Japan founded in 1957. Today, it has 212 employees and the president is Mikio Chikusa. Among the values of this ever-advancing company…
The manifestation of architecture commenced at a very early stage in the world. Architecture is not just the implementation of one’s perspective. It is the macrocosm of visions, conceptions, emotions,…
The relationship between the human body and the architectural form gives an insight into the design world. The architect’s design principles and beliefs are evident in their sketches. Hence, human…
Humans started their journey in Prehistoric times; they struggled to survive and what mostly protected them is the invention of fire and shelter. From then with time they started living,…
We, humans, have a very typical and absurd trait of seeing humans as everything else but humans. This trait is prevailing in our world since the dawn of the human…
“Architecture hasn’t done a great job by telling all our stories equally.” -Liz Ogbu. It’s appalling for people with an architectural backdrop to hear this. What makes it interesting is…
