Shiny Varghese

Sarto Almeida, who mentored architects across the country and gave buildings a modern regional edge, was instrumental in planning Goa’s cities.

The Delhi-based architect and urban designer speaks about cross subsidies for the urban poor to have a right to the city, his latest book that delves into the faultlines of urban planning and public spaces in a Covid landscape

The architect-urban designer on city planning in a post-COVID world, giving migrants an improved quality of life and making them citizens of new organic cities

Can architecture bring back craft into its storytelling, not only as a way to support artisans but also give an identity to the regional flavours of our country, and reclaim a place that was theirs centuries ago?

In a pro bono effort, a group of volunteers across India has come together to make face shields, free of cost, for doctors and medical support staff of government hospitals.

“Our faith doesn’t end with a Good Friday, it begins at resurrection. And I’m convinced the lockdown will result in a transformation within families and churches,” says Fr Barrett.

The coronavirus has taught us to split teams, work in shifts or work from home. Office layouts, too, have changed. Architects gear up to implement design ideas that may actually make for more efficient use of space

An online collection highlights how a design movement in Germany influenced the modernist language of expression in art and architecture in India

A brief history of how streets, which act as a stage where our lives play out, connect people, with roads continuing to be its impassive counterpoint

A book on unbuilt architectural projects in India points to the possibilities of structural forms and the ambition of limitless imagination.

The architect and heritage conservationist on how architecture can represent what a modern democracy should be.

A “walking sculpture”, a designer, an activist and writer, he never fails to turn heads dressed in fabric and steel, frills and brocade, ribbons and shells, feathers, crystals and over-sized safety pins.

Marina Tabassum on working with the local, centrality of the central space in buildings, and creating a seed fund to help women build

Fashion doesn’t conform to space and time, has no limits, and is constantly about change, says the Ahmedabad-based Padma Bhushan-recipient architect

A recent exhibition in Delhi, organised by INTACH, J&K Chapter, Department of Tourism, Kashmir and India International Centre, Delhi, displayed the “Sacred Architecture of Kashmir”, showing how spiritual traditions continued in form and structure.

A photography exhibition of IIT Delhi looks at the principles of modernist architecture activated in the building and its reality six decades later.

‘The world has changed a lot and architects can save the world. But, in India, we can't think beyond the Gateway of India or Taj Mahal. Our architecture has no one to take it forward.'

Tsien was one of the keynote speakers at the recent Women In Design 2020+ in Mumbai, where she shared learnings from their projects of over four decades.

'Historically, public places have a strong link with political systems and power.'