While documenting the work of a local Mumbai contractor, Marie Malchow questions if a different conception of space operates during the construction process.
The tool-house as starting point for designers to learn from local skills, practices and aspirations.
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’.
The new mosque will be built on the site of a 30 years old mosque nestled in the dense middle section of the neighbourhood.
Behind the famed Renaissance hotel by the Powai lake is a small, homegrown village called Paspoli which is home to the workforce of the hotel.
While Warli art has become as gentrified as an art gallery in a heritage urban precinct, the reality it represents is hugely significant.
The city is never already there; it is a perpetual work in progress. What seems disorderly to the untrained eye is in fact often perfectly sensible.
Ajanta with its drop-dead frescoes – from some 2500 years ago was like a fashion-sutra in stone – documenting jewellery, accessories, make-up, hairstyles and costumes – while capturing the narratives of the many lives of Buddha.