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A multimedia exhibition at V&A Kensington examines how Western ideas were reimagined as a form of post-colonial nationhood that combined European practice with indigenous traditions of making and design.
An excerpt from the introduction of the recent book, “Streets For All: 50 Strategies for Shaping Resilient Cities,” edited by Vinayak Bharne and Shyam Khandekar.
His many interventions into architecture in the 1980s and 90s may have been paved with good intentions, but for me, and many disgruntled others, his desire for a return to traditional forms and construction, promoting the idea of village life over the city, translated into turning Britain back into some sort of feudal fealty. With cutesy chocolate box Disney facades.
Certain works of architecture are so carefully woven into the times, places and cultures within which they are set, they seem to have always been there. Such buildings form the settings for events both ordinary and extraordinary, shaping not only the ways we engage and remember these events, but also quietly defining how we see […]
Although a decade has passed, New Zealander Gordon Cullen still vividly recalls his daring escape from a high-rise tower block during the deadly Christchurch earthquake on February 22, 2011. - 'This terrible event' - Christchurch had survived earthquakes before, but the seismic jolt that hit on February 22, 2011 had a shallow epicentre of just five kilometres (3.1 miles) on a previously unknown fault that lay directly under the city.