When Every Project Presentation Looks Great: How Do You Stand Apart? 31-Jul-2025 Architecture & Design Today, with a few clicks and prompts, anyone can produce a masterplan. A 50-acre township? A luxury villa community? A smart city vision? All it takes is an AI tool, a few right words, and some borrow... Architecture Design Students Young Architects Read more
"Designing What You Haven’t Lived Yet" 27-Jul-2025 Architecture & Design This blog is written especially for students and young architects. Over the years, I have come to realise how much life experience shapes the way we understand space, relationships, and design itself.... Architecture Design Root Problem Students Young Architects Read more
Draft Report on Internship Reforms Advisory Prepared for CoA 22-Jun-2025 Education & Practice Disclaimer: This report was prepared as part of a sub-committee constituted by the Council of Architecture. This draft report is based on the author's observations, reflections, and analysis of stakeh... Internships Read more
Internships in Architecture: Broken by Design? 16-Jun-2025 Education & Practice What We Learnt from Listening When the Council of Architecture appointed me as a one-man sub-committee to prepare a draft report on internship reforms, my role was not just to study the system but to ... Internships Read more
Fix the Foundation: A Letter to the CoA on Internship Reform 01-May-2025 Education & Practice The following is the letter I sent to the members of the Council of Architecture on 1 March 2025, now shared here for broader awareness. 01 May 2025 To The Council of Architecture, India Habitat Centr... Alternate Intership Formats CoA Education Internships Read more
Unintentionally Anti-Social: Master Plans of Apartment Projects -1 25-Apr-2025 Architecture & Design Some Entrances Are Grand. But Do They Mean Anything? When you think of multi-block apartment projects today—especially the large ones—it often starts with a grand gateway. Then comes an even grander... Apartments Design Entrance Master Plan Resident Movement Plan Social Spaces Read more
Revisiting Scale in Architecture 20-Apr-2025 Architecture & Design The Road Trip Without a Destination It wasn’t a client visit. It wasn’t a study tour. It was a road trip—three friends: Ar. Sudhir, my classmate, along with another builder friend, no agenda, no tim... Scale in Architecture Read more
Master Bedroom? But Who's the Master? 13-Apr-2025 Architecture & Design My professor recently expressed casually, with a tone of resignation, "Architecture is dead. It has become a commodity." For a moment, I almost agreed. So many homes today are designed for speed, bran... Apartments Culture Master BedRoom Relationships Residence Read more
Silent Rooms: What Our Blueprints Might Reveal 11-Apr-2025 Architecture & Design In my previous piece, "Blueprints of Belief" , we imagined how future historians might study our homes to uncover the silent forces—like Vaastu—that have shaped modern Indian architecture. Continuing ... Apartments Design Labels Maid Room Servant Room Read more
Blueprints of Belief 06-Apr-2025 Architecture & Design This is not a debate on Vaastu. It is a reflection on how belief, design, and cultural shifts have quietly shaped modern Indian housing. And how, in doing so, they may have already begun to define the... Apartments Architecture Culture Design Residence Vaastu Read more
Designed, But for Whom? 26-Mar-2025 Architecture & Design In the context of large-scale residential developments—apartment complexes and villa projects alike—the answer, sadly, is often: an anonymous clientele. Architects today largely cater to faceless, gen... Apartments Architecture Builders Culture Developers Large Scale Social Scientists Traditions Villa Projects Read more
Great Indian Urban Mess -Part 2: Understanding the Root Problem 10-Mar-2025 Urban This writing is in continuation of its previous writing: The Great Indian Urban Mess: An Embarrassment for Us as Architects, Urban Designers, and Urban Planners. Understanding the Root Problem 1 The... Big Impact Footpaths Pride Root Problem Round Table Urban Design Urban Future Urban Planning Walkability Read more