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How Cities Grow?

The wheel of time, the spur of city life, the growing/ multiplying city, spreading- spilling outwards like bacteria. Life for the human then, becomes a blur. How does one channel/ control the growing city?

The increasing population of the world has its undeniable impacts all over the world. In Le Corbusier's ' Towards a New Architecture', the option for building vertical cities has been discussed.

To keep the ratio of solid and void balanced, he proposes to lift the buildings on… Continue

Added by Ar. Zainab on May 1, 2010 at 2:53pm — 1 Comment

For an architect, architecture is a kind of memoir

For an architect, architecture is a memoir, whether on paper or in the form of a building piercing through the sky, it’s a record of events by a person having intimate knowledge of the works based on personal observation.

Architecture begins in an architect’s imagination of what he/she perceives the space to be, and initiating from a single thought it develops step by step taking form, into a particular building type. Architecture has its own language, its own way of communicating its… Continue

Added by Ar. Zainab on May 1, 2010 at 2:52pm — No Comments