Essay
Knowing Through Making
Must every architectural rule be written down before it can be learnt? Or can buildings, bodies, workshops and institutions carry knowledge in other ways?
Essay
The Things We Keep
We do not preserve old buildings because they are old, but because life has left something in them worth carrying forward.
Essay
When Images Stop Thinking
From Archigram to Instagram: what happens when architectural representation stops being a tool for speculation and becomes an instrument of circulation?
Photography
Udaipur: Water, Weather, and Ornament
A photographic walk through Udaipur, from the changing edge of Lake Pichola to the city’s streets, façades, and rooms.
Essay
An Architecture of Borrowed Futures
Since independence, Indian architecture has been caught between inheritance and aspiration—between the history it chooses to remember, the colonial legacy it wishes to discard, and the modern future it is still learning how to make its own.
Essay
Architecture, Memory, and Time
Architecture does not merely occupy space. It accumulates time, memory and association—and perhaps should be able to change as readily as the lives lived within it.
Essay
A Mini Library for Architects
A working collection of books on architecture and design—spanning cities, climate, materials, drawing and practice; some foundational, some practical, some difficult, and a few useful detours that have shaped the way I think about design.
