Nurturing Environment Conscious Architects: TSAP

 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.                    ...

What is Project Management? Project management is the combination of planning, organizing, securing, executing, controlling, managing resources and tasks to seamlessly drive the project throughout its life cycle. A Project consists of various stakeholders like client, Architects, designers, planners, consultants, suppliers, workers etc. While each one independently delivers their scope it is important that their actions are in sync with each other and the overall objective of the project. Hence it is important to have a nodal agency which coordinates, plans, controls and supervises the actions of all the stakeholders in delivering the project.  This nodal agency is called a Project management. “Being a Project Manager is like being an artist, you have the different colored process streams combining into a work of Art” Greg Cimmarrusti.. Project life cycle Why do we need project managers? Having a Project manager increases the likelihood of a projec...

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating” Source: http://www.npconline.co.za/services/space-planning-fundamentals/ Productive work always demands results. Every creation manifests itself in the society to respond and interact with it. Architecture as a Profession has a profound responsibility that goes beyond mere provision of shelter and broadly covers infrastructure, recreation, education, hospitality and even the corporate world. The entire process from ‘Concept to Completion’ is a responsible job, involving various tasks such as planning, technical detailing, specification of materials, identifying a time frame, procurement and allocation of all resources, finances etc.    All the activities covered above are under the scope of ‘Management’. An Architect plays the key role, just as a Captain of a Ship navigates, has to coordinate with all stakeholders and agencies involved in the act of project completion. Architecture is a robust combination of creati...