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Decrypting of the process of Architectural Design : By Ar. Purvi Kakkad

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Decryption process of Architectural Design   ‘For starters of architectural design process, learning how to design is a deeply intimate affair. It requires you to reconsider how you think and unlearns all that you have taken for granted throughout your life’. As a Professor in architecture School , in  architectural education  much of the time has revolved around answering the intimate question ‘how to design’ . On their first project, students feel like a lost child being asked to find their way back home; They keep looking around for signs indicating that they are on the right track. Each project is   a new lesson on the elusive subject known as the ‘ design process ’.   To explain what I have learned from my experience, I would like to briefly relate it to the art of storytelling: While describing the process of writing fairy tales, George McDonald argued that there is a set of laws by which a new world begins to exist. According to him this is the armature of creation, well f

Journey from 'A Blank Page' to 'The Published Book'

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   'A Blank Page' to 'The Published Book'   “Journey of my first Self- Published book”- Anshul D. Sinha     Many of us aspire to write a book to make a difference and so did I. The journey of Self-publishing my first book was nothing less than a roller coaster ride. In this blog, I would like to share the journey. It was in the year 2012 when I first dreamt of my Book. Back then I had many architectural sketches in my portfolio and thought it would be great to put them together in the form of a book. I was excited, the same day I scanned all my sketches and was geared up. The book should have a unique name and I named it “ Archisketch ”. At first, I thought of compiling around 500 sketches. I was overwhelmed with the idea and ended up designing the cover and page layout too.   Caption: First Cover page Design of the book back in 2012 Caption: First draft page layout of the book designed back in 2012 For a Few days, I worked aggressively on the manus