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After land and water, the old demon builds castles in the air. (The Hindu 15.09.18)

Constructing peace through community development in Bogota. (The Bogota Post, 12.05.2018.)

The Rise of Navi Mumbai viewed from the Konkan (The Hindu 29/04/2018)

The 2nd Workshop in Emerging Architecture and Urbanism in Altos del Pino, Bogotá, supports the initiatives of the community for the construction of public toilets and improvement of public space.

This animation presents what Dharavi could look like if it was allowed to continue develop incrementally. All designs in the video were conceived by contractors living and working in Dharavi, Mumbai, as part of the Design Comes as We Build project.

Breathing life into a community´s vision for a ¨restorative cell¨ using Bamboo 

Update on our latest project in Dharavi for an elevated community space

Privatisation, if seen as an exclusive way to regularise settlements, increases the risk of political manipulation and real-estate speculation. (The Hindu, 29.03.17)

The future in architecture starts with a good hard look at the world as it is.

Every kaccha house transforming into a pukka house is a story worth telling – one which is extremely significant to residents and the development of the city at large.

New incremental solutions for a house we built earlier. 

The official target of producing millions of quality homes for all can be re-imagined, as one in which the process of construction itself becomes a transformative moment.

In collaboration with local pedreiro Ataide, the urbz team helps build a house in Paraisoplis right from digging the foundations. 

While documenting the work of a local Mumbai contractor, Marie Malchow questions if a different conception of space operates during the construction process. 

Architecture relies on inputs of the occupants to incrementally design a house extension in Sakinaka. 

How local, community owned and managed housing co-operatives, can be a vital step towards improving the neighbourhoods, bringing good quality civic infrastructure and making the city genuinely ’slum-free’.

Pedreiero Ataide opens up his house in Sao Paulo's homegrown neighbourhood, Paraisopolis to architecture students to learn the intricacies of on-site construction and renovation. 

Can design input be streamed into a process rather than given as a starting point to the construction process?