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.                    ...

  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 arrival of the monsoon brings a huge sigh of relief, accompanied by the entire city preparing for their ANNUAL MONSOON ROUTINES. Shopkeepers begin adding an affordable canopy to their shops for the customers to stand. People living in chawls make sure to air-tighten their homes, preventing rainwater from entering.   The child in every human wanders with the thoughts of getting wet in the rains and letting the water drops hit the core of your soul, making every length count. The city also adapts itself to the subduing onset, and it's also the people who alter their patterns and find ways to crawl into a nap sack, keeping out the rains.   For the city’s homeless, it is time to find a makeshift shelter to sleep under. Some of them smiled as they explained matter-of-factly how they improvised to keep dry during the nights. But to them, it is exactly where the constant rhythm of rain drops ceases and those forty-winks are put to rest.   I believe- the human bra...

• Why is 18th April World Heritage Day celebrated?

                                      It was an era, where along with pigeons, humans were dispatched to deliver important letters and news within the large empire. This news can sometimes turn over the running empire or might save the king with secret planned wasp of death. The importance of the news delivery, made postmen or dispatch boys active, loyal and one who can have great stamina.   In the year Circa 539, when Romans got victory on Persians in battle of Marathon, it was very important to deliver the news back in administration in Athens as soon as possible. Army general chose   Pheidippides, 'sparing a horse', who mapped distance from Marathon to Athen in scorching summer heat. His last word announced was “Nikomen” – We win and later he collapsed and died .   (Many other myths are attached to this story as well)    ...