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Coming from a traditional Muslim society, she still dared to embrace the profession of architecture despite being a female; she loved breaking barriers and became a role model for so many in her lifetime. She liberated architectural geometry with the creation of highly expressive, sweeping fluid forms. Her designs involve…

“If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it, one step at a time.” -Marian Wright Edelman.   There was this article on bird deaths due to collision with buildings. It was a very fascinating article and the figures furnished were quite staggering, terrifying actually. Billions of…

Le Corbusier produced countless masterpieces during his five-decade long career; establishing a new trend for architecture, called the International architecture. He was a champion of modern architecture, firmly believing in the “precision” of architecture. According to him, each feature of the design needed to be justified in design and urban…

“The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes. The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save…

He was born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris on the 6th of October, 1887 in Switzerland; and spent most of his life in France. He was an architect, a designer, a painter, a writer, an urban planner, and a modernist to the core. He believed that drawing was preferable to talking as it…

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction.” -Dr. Edward O. Wilson. We used to study in our younger days that there were primarily three seasons- winter, summer and rainy season. Theoretically we are still taught the same, however, it has become difficult to make…