We may not be the jocks, the popular ones or perhaps not even the smartest. But we are the creative ones. We are the ones who sat in the corner of your classrooms sketching away while the lecturers rambled on in front of us. And even though it may sound unlikely, the whole world kind of depends on us. [ ... ]
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“It is important, that you honor the material that you use” - Louis I Kahn, 1971
The quote above has been taken from a rare video of Louis Kahn’s lecture at University of Pennsylvania. The popular video depicts Kahn ‘talking’ to a brick, as he explains to his students, the importance of honoring a material. [ ... ]
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As you step off the freshly mowed green grass and onto the cold black stone floor within the Sabarmati Ashram, you hear your footstep echo through the building. It is almost as though the architect, Charles Correa, hoped that the user would stop for a second to realize that his simple action had a resonating impact. [ ... ]
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A satirical take on Architecture and Design fuelled by contributions from our readers.
The image set will be regularly updated on Inkuse. [ ... ]
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A dose of inspirational quotes and interesting architectural terminologies. [ ... ]
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Not long ago, I found myself in a rickety old bus, travelling through Bangalore. I was headed towards my aunt’s place at Jeevan Bima Nagar. It was a 10 km journey from my guesthouse in Koramangla, and I enjoyed taking the bus. Sitting by the window, gazing at the facades flying by, I reflected upon stories that each of these buildings could tell. [ ... ]
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in association with the Association of Students of Architecture (ASA), NIT Trichy, we are overjoyed to introduce the Zakyanta trophy. A two week long design competition that climaxes at Archcult 2014. [ ... ]
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It was during my 4th year internship at Ahmadabad that a thought really struck me. The practical training semester is a phase in every architectural student’s life where they take their first step into the reality of architecture. They realize the feasibility of their ideas and how difficult it can be to [ ... ]
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REmaking Cities for People : a sumbission by Zaneena M Kareem from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum [ ... ]
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KOVIL : sumbission by Pravekha, Santhanakrishnan and Dinesh from the Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Hosur [ ... ]
We were overwhelmed by the quantity and quality of the works submitted in for Zakyanta '14 that we decided to go ahead and publish a few other works as well (apart from the trophy winners). Click on to take a look [ ... ]
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2015 has shown us how far 'no-constraints' designing can go! Like last year, we were overwhelmed with the quntity and quality of the responses that we've decided to put up a few more shortlisted entries [ ... ]
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The Urban Escape : a submission by Ashwin Prince, Gowtham and Madhan Niwas from Adhiyaman College of Engineering [ ... ]
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The Cooum Archipelago : a submission by K.A. Sai Tejas from McGans Ooty School of Architecture [ ... ]
