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Placemaking After A Pandemic

by Kunal Rakshit

In a fictitious dialogue with Siegfrid Gideion, the famed Finnish architect Alvar Aalto said, “God created paper for architecture to be drawn on. Everything else is- at least to me- a misuse of paper.” In Aalto’s fictitious dialogue, he presents a prognosis of architecture as he foresaw it in the 1950s: “The horoscope of architecture today is one in which the words are negative-...

November 1, 2020

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How Green Buildings can fight Covid-19

by Kunal Rakshit

When Covid 19 pandemic was upending our lives, I was thinking how green buildings can be helpful to prevent diseases. Here are few tips that designers could be mindful of.

October 27, 2020

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Autumn Sonata – Ingmar Bergman

by Kunal Rakshit

Autumn Sonata (1978) cuts deep into a woman, even if she recoils from it. We are all some mother’s daughter, whether we were cherished or abandoned, spoiled or abused. Both of the film’s stars, Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Bergman, had daughters as well as celebrated careers. But when Bergman left her husband for Roberto Rossellini, she went years without seeing her daughter from her...

October 25, 2020

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250 things that an Architect should know

by Kunal Rakshit

Michael Sorkin, the noted architectural critic and educator who passed away last month in covid-19 wrote about 250 things that an architect should know in his book What Goes Up . I have to admit that I myself don’t know probably 50 percent of items listed. but it’s fun to go through this list once in a while and assess our knowledge and position...

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Giambattista Vico’s New Science

by Kunal Rakshit

For Vico, the neapolitan philosopher of early 18th century, wisdom of the poets- was the earliest wisdom of the mankind. It was unrationalized, as primitive men were not capable of abstract thoughts.

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Sketches of Peter Rich

by Kunal Rakshit

Peter Rich is an Australian architect whose sketches blows my mind. His sketches are manifestations of his travels and they are really special.

February 16, 2020

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Architecture of Memory: On the Relevance of Memory in Architecture

by Kunal Rakshit

The link between Architecture and Memory is quite ancient. Numerous accounts have been written on how architecture was used as a memory tool. We learn from stories of the Greek poet Simonides, who identified from his memory every visitor in a banquet associating them with architectural setting. This art of memory often called “memory palace” was transmitted from Greeks to Romans and then into...

January 17, 2020

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The Bow and the Lyre

by Kunal Rakshit

The Poem. The Poetic Revelation. Poetry and History. Why poetry is important in everyday life. Taking a leaf out of Octavio Paz’s book to make a strong case for poetry in our daily life, culture and society. Octavio Paz, the author of this book was a Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat, recognized as one of the major Latin American writers of the 20th century....

January 14, 2020

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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 3G

by Kunal Rakshit

Before we get into other details of our Kindle Paperwhite 3G review, let’s quickly see why it continues to be the world’s best-selling e-reader. Kindle had been always very popular. When kindle was first released in the United States on November 19, 2007, the response was overwhelming. The entire production of kindle was sold out in five hours and it remained out of stock...

November 16, 2016

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The Search of the Curious

by Kunal Rakshit

A personal experience of a bong student

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Amaravati Government Complex Design Competition

by Kunal Rakshit

Chandigarh was a long time ago, but arguably, no development of a new state capital has generated as much excitement and hype as Andhra Pradesh’ Amaravati city. While India is looking up to Amaravati as a modern day, even ‘futuristic’ capital that may well become a template for India’s 100 smart cities project, the city itself has a rich and glorious past. Three international...

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What is a teacher?

by Kunal Rakshit

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”- William Arthur Ward

January 4, 2016

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THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN INDIA

by Kunal Rakshit

Modern India. Post-Independent India went through a lot of turmoil, it was like the day after an Indian Wedding, the guests are gone but the ‘memories’ of their stay remains along with the mess, you don’t know which stuff is yours and what to throw out, every corner of the house throwing up a treasure chest.

December 9, 2015

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The Eyes of the Skin: Pallasmaa

by Kunal Rakshit

this piece of literature attempts to highlight the importance of sensory experience in architecture

November 21, 2015

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Architect, Architecture, Book review

Josep Lluis Sert The Architect of Urban Design

by Kunal Rakshit

November 18, 2015

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Architecture, Book review

A House From Kerala

by Kunal Rakshit

‘A house From Kerala’ is a beautiful documentary which shows how a 300 year old wooden house was saved from being demolished and instead it was dismantled and moved 2000 km away to be rebuilt again. Architect Pradeep Sachdeva from Delhi took the grand inititaive which gives us an insight into how ingeniuos was architects of yesteryears.

October 29, 2015

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Office US Atlas

by Kunal Rakshit

OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, was conceived as a working architecture office that explored the ways in which U.S. architectural practice has influenced the discipline around the world over the past 100 years. OfficeUS Atlas is a new book that compiles and interprets the research assembled in the exhibition’s OfficeUS Repository, an archive of nearly 1,000 projects produced by U.S. offices...

October 27, 2015

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Book review, graphic design

Modernism Rediscovered: Julius Shulman

by Kunal Rakshit

TASCHEN’s Modernism Rediscovered brought to light for the first time some 300 forgotten architectural masterpieces, drawn from photographer Julius Shulman’s personal archives. Paying tribute to houses and buildings that had slipped from public view, Shulman’s stunning photographs uncovered a rarely seen side of California Modernism. This extensive volume brings hundreds more architectural gems into the spotlight. The photographs, most of which are published here...

October 27, 2015

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Architecture, Book review

Carlo Scarpa

by Kunal Rakshit

In Robert McCarter’s Carlo Scarpa monograph, Austrian architect Peter Noever tells an astonishing tale. In 1974, he and Scarpa toured the Adolf Loos made American Bar in Vienna. The moment they entered Scarpa started evaluating the space. He ordered champagne for the ladies…… who were present and a measuring tape for himself. Scarpa then continued to measure everything down to the exact millimeter. When...

September 27, 2015

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Architecture, Book review

Brion Cemetery Meditation Pavilion – Carlo Scarpa

by Kunal Rakshit

Carlo Scarpa was one of the second generation of Modern architects – however, as a son of Venice, he was sensitive to that city’s old-fashioned culture (unlike most modernists), and made his reputation through a number of commissions and renovations in which he used Modern methods and spatial concepts to transform Venice, rather than crudely eliminate its ancient identity. He understood that the past...

September 27, 2015

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Architect, Architecture

Archi-Graphic

by Kunal Rakshit

Are you a trivia whiz who knows his Alto from his Ando? Which bespectacled architect set the trend, nay stereotype, for round eyewear across the profession? Whose eyebrows are on fleek? The Distinguishing Features Game, is one of more than 60 infographics featured in Archi-Graphic, a book from publisher Laurence King. Author Frank Jacobus, an associate professor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture at...

September 25, 2015

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Architecture, Book review

Beyond Bawa

by Kunal Rakshit

All too often, the architecture books you see on other people’s coffee tables allow you to wallow self-indulgently in the pure sensuousness of the pictures, and the thinly worded script might as well not exist. Don’t get me wrong. I like to immerse just as much as the next man, but this is something Robson does not allow you to do. This is not...

September 25, 2015

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Architecture, Book review

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones

by Kunal Rakshit

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) is an Indian National Award winning film featuring Arundhati Roy, Indian superstar Shahrukh Khan ,Arjun Raina and Roshan Seth in the leads, the film directed by Pradip Kishen makes an excellent judgment on the environment of an architecture school in Delhi – which everyone from a creative discipline may relate to. It also takes a satirical glimpse of the ongoings in...

September 18, 2015

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Architecture, Thesis

Louis I Kahn: Silence and Light

by Kunal Rakshit

Louis I. Kahn is unarguably one of the most prominent and important figures of 20th-century architecture. He is known as the poet and philosopher amongst the great modern architects. On 12 February 1969, Kahn gave a lecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), entitled ‘‘Silence and Light’‘. This fundamental text reveals Kahn’s spiritual understanding of architecture and his creative thinking....

August 29, 2015

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Architecture Visionaries

by Kunal Rakshit

The book Architecture Visionaries revolves around biography and projects fo 75 noted architects of 20th century. The biographies start with Antonio Gaudi and ends with Shigeru Ban. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, the book gives the reader a sense of the impact that creative individuals have had on the advancement of architecture and our built environment. Important dates in the architects’ careers are established...

August 29, 2015

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