When Every Project Presentation Looks Great: How Do You Stand Apart? 31-Jul-2025 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 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
Unintentionally Anti-Social: Master Plans of Apartment Projects -1 25-Apr-2025 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 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 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 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 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 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