Architecture

Building Sustainability: The Impact of Climate Change on Architectural Practices

Architects are essential in the fight against climate change because they design and implement climate-responsive techniques, new materials, and energy-efficient structures. Adaptations including green building, coastal fortifications, and flood-resistant techniques are required due to rising temperatures. Architects emphasize efficiency to cut down on energy use in chilly climates. Concurrently, there is a global movement in […]

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The Beautiful Diversity of Vernacular Architecture in India

When we think of the word ‘vernacular’, we often refer to the indigenous tribes, their languages, and their culture. Hence, ‘vernacular architecture’ becomes easy to define. Vernacular architecture refers to the local practices and materials to build ‘traditional’ and local buildings. To say that vernacular architecture in India is just one category would be inaccurate.

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Louis Kahn: Combining Modernity and Tradition

Born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky in Estonia on February 20, 1901, Louis Kahn became one of the greatest architects of the 20th century after emigrating to the United States. After touring Europe in 1928, Kahn became interested in Medieval architecture, which cemented his architectural identity in his 50s. His style, which broke from early Modernism and was

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5 Modernist Churches of Italy You Must Know

Between 1962 and 1965, the Second Vatican Council ushered in liturgical reforms emphasizing participation and clarity, freeing Italian architects from rigid typologies to create bold, modernist sacred spaces. Postwar Italy’s economic boom, urban sprawl, and secular shift met Vatican II’s call for renewal, birthing experimental churches that anchored new communities. Marta Minuzzo’s “Templi Moderni. Costruire

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From Villa Anantya to GOMA HQ: Nayan Shah’s Context-Driven Design

In an industry that often celebrates the loud and the monumental, Nayan Shah, founder of the Mumbai-based studio Palindrome Spaces, prefers a different frequency. Since establishing the firm in 2018, Shah has been quietly refining a design language where light, proportion, and memory take center stage, recalibrating the rhythms of daily life without ever “shouting

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At the Edge of Memory: Rohit Suresh Varekar’s New Exhibition in Delhi

Gallerie Nvya, New Delhi, presents ऊंबरा: at an ancestral threshold, a solo exhibition by emerging artist Rohit Suresh Varekar, on view from 11 July to 31 August 2026. Rooted in the fragile ecological and architectural landscapes of the Konkan region, the exhibition is a material meditation on memory, loss, and continuity in the face of

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Prairie Ark: Büro Ziyu Zhuang lands a saucer-like gallery on Mongolia

Prairie Ark: Büro Ziyu Zhuang lands a saucer-like gallery on Inner Mongolia

Büro Ziyu Zhuang has completed Prairie Ark, a public gallery on the shores of Lake Laoli in the Ulanchabu Steppes of Inner Mongolia, about 160 kilometres west of Beijing. The building reads like a flying saucer that has come to rest on the grasslands, lower and more horizontal than a conventional museum. Studio founder Ziyu

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Studio Saransh Reimagines Corbusian Ahmedabad Inside a Contemporary High-Rise

NG Apartment

Ahmedabad-based Studio Saransh has completed NG Apartment, a residential interior project that revisits the city’s modernist legacy within the confines of a contemporary high-rise. Located in Ahmedabad, the project translates the material and spatial ethos of the Corbusian era into a lived domestic environment, moving beyond stylistic imitation toward a more experiential reconstruction. Commissioned by

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Arcause Spotlight 3.0 Bengaluru Explores Accessibility & Urban Life

Arcause Spotlight 3.0 Bengaluru

Arcause Spotlight 3.0 (Bengaluru Edition) convened a diverse group of architecture and design students, practitioners, researchers, and professionals for a day-long engagement centred on accessibility, inclusive design, everyday urbanism, and heritage. The event fostered interdisciplinary dialogue through a series of immersive activities across the city, encouraging participants to critically examine how urban spaces are experienced

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