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The Morphogenesis Monograph

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 ...

Japanese Style of Landscape 2

Biophilia , Landscape

Japanese Style of Landscape- Part 2

By Aakanksha Mehta

The art of gardening is an important part of Japanese culture when it comes to landscaping, as discussed in Part 1. The garden design is strongly connected to the philosophical, historical and cultural aspect of the country.[1] Gardens in Japan are of two distinct types, one which are experienced by walking through them and othe ...

Bengaluru

Cities , Environment , Landscape , Livability

Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future

By Siddharth Joshi, Amritha Krishnan & Rishikesh AG

Abstract: In this talk, Professor Nagendra examines the past, present, and future of nature in Bengaluru, one of India’s largest cities. Though threatened, nature in the city exhibits a remarkable tenacity. She charts changes in nature from the 6th century CE to the present, drawing on original social-ecological field research, coupled with archival analysis, satellite remote sensing, and oral histories. She ...

Japanese Style of Landscape

Biophilia , Environment , Landscape , Livability

Japanese Style of Landscape

By Aakanksha Mehta

While picturesque English gardens with tea houses and pavilions and ‘eye catcher’ French Gardens have become more popular with Western World as discussed in the previous blogs, most folks also devote all or part of their backyards to this style of landscaping. Japanese gardens are traditional gardens that create miniature idealized landscapes, often in a highly abstract and stylized way.[1] These garden ...

Urban Motelling

Biophilia , Environment , Landscape

Urban Motelling

By Rahat Varma

Back in 2010, when New Delhi was all set to host the Commonwealth Games, the central government chose to respond to the city’s shortage of hotel room accommodation by employing the ‘Urban Motelling Policy’. The policy stated that those with farmland in Delhi on a main road could build a hotel, however regulations were put in place to ensure that very little volume could be built on this land so that these farmlands could ...

French Gardens

Biophilia , Landscape , Uniformity

Jardin à la Française

By Aakanksha Mehta

Andre le Notre, the greatest French garden and landscape designer. Andre Le Notre followed his father as head gardener at the Jardin des Tuilleries in Paris and also studied fine art in Paris. The designer also enjoyed a warm relationship with his patron Louis XIV. Both were men of taste with a passion for gardens and architecture. The baroque style of garden design, which they brought to a crescendo, became widely influential ...

Landscape

Landscape

Neighborhood Landscapes

By Shruti Khandelwal

A neighborhood can be defined as a localized residential area with distinctive characteristics in larger cities. It comprises of residential typologies like apartments, houses, or bungalows, community park, basic shopping amenities, small medical facility and maybe even a school. The residential fabric is closely knitted by cultural and social activities that add to the unique character of the place. Post industrialization ...