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?
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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?
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
Fragmented Notes on Libeskind’s Jewish Museum
A series of fragmented notes on Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin, moving through questions of memory, violence, interpretation, permanence and perception.
Essay
Words of Creative Wisdom
Famous quotes are loaded strings which clear through the muddle, and underline, or even define our thinking in some ways. I call them “Thought–Concentrates”.
Essay
Words of Wisdom: Part 2
A second collection of quotations on architecture, design, beauty, form and conservation.
Essay
Thoughts on Architectural Design
Architecture is more than programme and shelter. This essay introduces four kinds of comfort—functional, environmental, emotional and temporal—as a simple way for students to begin thinking through design.