Connect – Engage – Explore is a concept generated on the basis of which, this Gallery has been designed to envisage the dynamic and innovative character of Bangalore. This concept has been implemented to develop a binding connection between the city and its scientific temperament.
Redeveloping Youth Hostel, Art Gallery, and Café, Old Nasik, by The Cave Laboratory for research, architecture, & planning is a mixed-use redevelopment combining youth hostel, art gallery, and café, respecting traditional architecture while embracing modern needs through stepped, courtyard-centred design.
The idea is to create a building that will take its rightful place among international peers- one that is modern in outlook, but Indian in soul.
The competition entry for a memorial proposing a water purification plant on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy site, by GDK Designs is based on transforming toxic land into renewed life, symbolising healing and collective remembrance through purification.
The site for the proposed Indian National War Museum is one of the few remaining ‘un-built’ sites amongst the plots
The collection of select unbuilt works by Gautam Bhatia is an exploration by him to propose elastic ideas of architecture that explore different approaches to public and living spaces.
The competition entry design for Bombay High Court by Sanjay Puri Architects integrates provides a reinterpretation of court architecture as a natural, social, and energy-efficient environment.
Pala, Kerala, where the residential house was to be located, has contrasting climates and a high altitude. Because of its
Godavar, in his essay about the unfinished and lost films, focusses on how these incomplete works offer glimpses into unrealised creative visions and possibilities. While digital restoration and AI present new opportunities, he presents the beauty and the ability of unfinished cinema to inspire imagination and alternative storytelling.
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Rupali Gupte is an architect and urbanist based in Mumbai, Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) and a partner at BARDStudio. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, story telling, teaching, curation, walks and spatial interventions.
Her works include extensive research on contemporary Indian urbanism with a focus on architecture and built environment; tactical practices; housing; and urban form. In 2013, she co-founded the School of Environment and Architecture (sea.edu.in). SEA is envisaged as an experimental academic space for research and education in architecture and urbanism. She has a wide range of publications, has delivered lectures and been on juries across the world. Her works in collaboration with her partner Prasad Shetty, have been shown in several exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, X Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, at Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and at galleries such as Project 88, Devi Art Foundation and the Mumbai Art Room. She has recently curated an exhibition involving artists and architects titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture’ at the Jawahar Kala Kendra.
