I haven’t traveled to Japan yet but this is my second visit to the Nakagin Capsule Tower. The first time is to trace Koolhaas’s Metabolist listing, a locate and bookmark exercise. Try and understand the narrative staged. Here now is to look at a building from a lot, that wouldn’t…

Trends govern which design gets its time in the lights. For now, it is regional design. To trace a getting there, it begins with diversity. Diversity leads to decolonization discourse which gives us in part #southasian #indianarchitecture and that drift leads to vernacular #architecture. All our contemporary building references and…

#architecturaltheory existed a while back only as books. Manifestos of architectural practices. They were business plans, aesthetic ideologies, or projected aspirations. It built a body of work. It is formulated for practice in practice. Architecture is a profession where a tradition is carried down, knowledge of a culture of building…

a working draft — Social media in the recent past has distorted architecture as domain knowledge. Content consumed by most is a combination of second-hand opinions to learn skills and facts on various aspects of the construction industry. Who is an expert and what is the basis of their expertise is eroded on the…

I have 461 kindle e-books as of now. In the lot 6 are pdfs. 2 I have just written about, 3 I will get to in a bit and there is this one, the first pdf kindle e-book I purchased by mistake. It is a research project about form-making, drawn…

So they fixed the pdf and it looks nicer than how it was yesterday. I generally tend to go ♥ berserk on my feeds at least on Instagram and Facebook. Very generous I am with my 👍s. There is a pressing curiosity I have on how people get likes on…

This issue has taken a while to get from manuscript to store and I am a bit disappointed. My three years on Instagram didn’t make it in. I thought it was alright. I wouldn’t brood if the essays were better than mine but it is what it is. Feeds is…

The essay is developed from the prompt “Tell us about a death you’ve experienced, for better or worse, and how you marked the loss —…

Architects aren’t taught to write. There is no time for that. Five years are spent learning to draw and plan at different scales. How to…