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The dichotomy of the global and the local

Designing for the Indian context is truly about bridging two ideas: finding the right balance between local wisdom and global benchmarks. One of the biggest influences on post-colonial Indian architecture was Corbusier’s design of Chandigarh’s master plan in response to Nehru’s vision for a modern, ...

Built Environment , Climate , Environment , Identity , Livability , Research , Sustainability

Manit and Sonali Rastogi in Conversation With Dr Nirmal Kishnani | Ecogradia

By Morphogenesis

An Architecture of Almost Somewhere

Founding Partners Manit and Sonali Rastogi recently chatted with Dr Nirmal Kishnani, host and editor-in-chief of Ecogradia (Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction), a global platform on sustainable architecture and urbanism. The talk traces Manit and Sonali’s upbringing and influence ...

Adaptive , Biophilia , Built Environment , Corporate , Environment , Landscape , Sustainability , Workplace

Outdoor Offices | A Post Pandemic Solution For Workplaces

The world has witnessed one of the gravest challenges of the century in the form of the global pandemic. The crisis, with its own set of difficulties, taught us to adapt to a new way of living, working, and socializing. It has also provided us with food-for-thought and forced us to re-look at the way we design our workspaces and homes. As the Indian economy opened up and employees returned to their workplaces, organizations ...

Environment , Sustainability

Part 2: Extract from the Morphogenesis Monograph Sustainability Essay

By Team Morphogenesis

We bring you the second of a 14 part series of extract from the Morphogenesis Architecture Monograph, to give you a peek into the mindspace of one of India’s best recognized, sustainable design practices. “Sustainability: defined as the ability to endure in local conditions and thrive in its lifecycle, the projects that are planned at the architecture firm are maintainable in their individual ecosystem ...

Building , Climate , Environment , Sustainability

Part 1: Extract from the Morphogenesis Monograph Introduction Essay

By Team Morphogenesis

We bring you the first of a 14 part series of extract from the Morphogenesis Architecture Monograph, to give you a peek into the mindspace of one of India’s best recognized, sustainable design practices. “It has been 20 years since the inception of Morphogenesis out of a home garage. This book records our work through that journey. In the midst of a paradigm change in the nascent libe ...

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Morphogenesis at World Architecture Festival 2017 & Dubai Design Week 2017

By Team Morphogenesis

Our upcoming talks at two of the Architectural world’s premier global gatherings- Dubai Design Week on 15th Nov, 2017, and WAF in Berlin on 16th Nov, 2017. Almost a decade ago, we became India’s first practice to win a WAF award. The year was 2009, and the project Pearl Academy Jaipur, won an award for the Best Learning Building. Life comes full circle, and it’s significant in more wa ...

Adaptive , Building , Climate , Environment , Exposure , Facade , Glare , Light , Livability , Morphology , Research , Sustainability , Vision , Workplace

PLEA 2017 Edinburgh: The Practice of Architecture in the Tropics

By Nitin Bansal, Manit Rastogi and Piya Gupta

Integrated Design Approach Architecture in some of the densest cities in India (and the world) demands highly conscious spatial consumption with office design standards reaching efficiencies as low as 50sq.ft./person. Consequently, high internal gains and stress on available resources have led to innovative developments in the way these buildings need to be designed and built. Sustainable architecture mus ...

Climate , Environment , Heritage , Jaali , Landscape , Masterplanning , Research , Sustainability

The Morphogenesis Monograph

By Team Morphogenesis

Morphogenesis: The Indian Perspective, The Global Context

Part of the Master Architect Series

Morphogenesis: The Indian Perspective, The Global Context is a monograph that commemorates the 20-year journey of Morphogenesis, which becomes the first Indian practice to feature in Images’ ...

Building , Corporate , Environment , Livability , Masterplanning

Maker Maxity, Mumbai

By Manit Rastogi

Maker Maxity is truly a microcosm of a Smart City – where Morphogenesis departed from a traditional Master Planning approach to one of Urban Design. The horizontal plane has been designed for walkability, and with a focus on public art & sculpture, both rare conditions in India today. The offices and other buildings integrate strongly with the landscape, through plazas and squares crafted as an integral part of the lands ...

Built Environment , Climate , Environment , Institutional

Spatial Optimisation in an Institutional Setting

By Rahat Varma

Over the last decade, the world we live in has gotten increasingly smaller and more connected, as countries and communities get more transparent and accessible, its implications on the nature of work and hence the workplace are rapidly evolving. New workspaces need to have a far greater emphasis on collaboration and interdependence, so that the users may productively and effectively connect. Morphogenesis continually evolve ...

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