Not read the previous parts, click below to read – PART – I PART – II 11. TRIOSE 2011 Lonavala, India Residential architecture Angled spaces projected towards different directions encapsulated in an organically folded concrete skin create a two-level building on this site in lonavala housing a few retail shops, a food court, two restaurants, […]
Not read the PART – I yet, click here to read 4. THE COURTYARD HOUSE 2011 Rajasthan, India Area – 3000 m² Residential architecture House is designed in response to a climate with long summer months Organically radiating concrete volumes of varied proportions from central open to sky courtyards create a sculpted series of spaces […]
Click on the various links provided, while you go through this article, to have an even more detailed study “Evolving a dialogue of spaces that transcend the ordinary in the way they are perceived while resolving the functional aspects in a more conducive way than ways explored earlier and simultaneously forming volumes sculpturally is innovation […]
2nd March 1917 – 1st April 2007 Laurie Baker was also known as the ‘Gandhi of architecture’ or ‘Brick master of Kerala’ “I don’t think I’ve ever been inspired by what other architects have doe but more by what ordinary craftsmen have created” – Laurie Baker Baker was a British born Indian architect He came […]
26TH August 1927 “I hesitate calling myself an architect because the more I think I know what architecture is, the less I feel I know about its true calling” – Doshi ‘Paths Uncharted’ – Autobiography Senior designer in Le Corbusier’s project in Ahmedabad and Chandigarh, in 1950 His studio, Vastu Shilpa (Environmental Design), was established […]
18th May 1883 – 05th July 1969 “Limitation makes the creative mind inventive” – Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius, was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus School, the German School of Buildings One of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture Founder of a Bauhaus in Weimar (1919) Also, a leading architect in International style […]
