Nurturing Environment Conscious Architects: TSAP

Climate Change is a reality today and evidences are already being experienced in most parts of the world. The potential threat of climate change is tremendous and can affect the environmental as well as economics of the world. 'Lifestyle for environment ' is a movement initiated under Niti Aayog , to promote awareness and introduce Climate Change Action. Raising the overall awareness levels of the community and collective action alone has immense potential in creating a lasting impact. One significant area of deliberations and research is the revival of 'circular economy ', wherein 'the end of one life cycle of the product can mark the beginning of the other product '. Lifestyle For Environment (L.I.F.E.) is an India led global mass movement. The moment identifies contribution by stakeholders as Pro-Planet-People (P-P-P). India has immense resource of Traditional Knowledge Systems to learn and adopt from as a cultural continuum. The Higher Education Institutes...

 Heritage Tourism - The LayMan's Perspective Heritage & Tourism – The Lay-Man’s perspective   Keywords – Heritage, Tourism, perspective, vision/eye/grasp of the commoner, literately illiterate, ecological & economic friendly, interpretation, presentation of the Heritage.   Introduction & Preamble The festive season almost at its peak, like the Ganesh festival is almost over and Dusshera (Durga Pooja) is almost at the threshold of the beginning. The comeback of the josh, jallosh, scale & the enthusiasm of Ganesh Festival seemed to know no limits. Everyone wants to venture out, explore things, tangible, intangible, etc., with all these, there are new protocols, procedures, restrictions, new pattern of behavior, it was inevitable, after the long pandemic affect. People wanted and were waiting to come out from the virtual world (online) to the material/physical (offline) world.                    ...

  DEMYSTIFYING ARCHITECTURE OF AR. DANIEL LIBESKIND                        (https://www.inexhibit.com/architects-artists/daniel-libeskind-works-of-architecture-art-and-design/, n.d.)                         The aim here is to have an overview on the works of Daniel Libeskind, along with his talk on the subject of his Architectural practice. Daniel Libeskind has been labelled amongst the Deconstructivist Architects to the likes of Zaha Hadid, and others. However, Architecture of Daniel doesn’t represent any stylization or pattern, it is an ideological pedagogy that sets itself in the emotion of the site, program and culture. His style of Architecture is unique and believes in narration of a story. He says “It’s not the material that makes architecture”. According to him it is a story told through lig...

The art of learning and teaching in architecture, without a ‘redo’ , perhaps is the most improbable preposition; in fact, I believe ‘redo’ is a ritual, which all streams of design courses may have as a mainstay for creativity. Any creative design process begins with looking at a situation from multiple points of view, as there is no single solution or linear approach to design. A teacher who has never used this tool of ‘redo’ in the process of opening the realm of ‘idea generation’ has probably not justified his role on opening the channels of ‘creative thinking’ in the mind of the aspiring student. Edward De Buno in his book ‘lateral thinking’ invites his readers to see beyond the mundane and explore various possibilities which are not visibly clear at once. We in design schools often talk about ‘out of the box’ thinking and ‘innovation’. To innovate in design is the most challenging task. The notion ‘can innovation come from the start itself’ must be questioned. Our start...