Designing from Something (When Tabula Rasa is Not an Option)
The tool-house as starting point for designers to learn from local skills, practices and aspirations.
The Life of a Lane in Sakinaka
Architecture relies on inputs of the occupants to incrementally design a house extension in Sakinaka.
The Village Outside
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.
Ataide's Home - Workshop In Paraisopolis, Sao Paulo
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.
Mumbai's Kinetic Exhaustion
What does the mutation of colonial Bombay into global Mumbai mean for architectural forms and public life?
Homegrown Workshop: Jan 8-13, Mumbai/Goa
People with various expertise engaged themselves for a pragmatic yet humane urbanism.
Top of the World: Amrut Nagar
Where affordable housing is scarce but people have tweaked the system and the land to achieve the best possible results in the given circumstances.
Homegrown Affordable Housing
The so-called slums of the city are in many ways attempts at increasing affordable housing units through a different construction and financial system.
Dharavi, urbz in Télérama
Olivier Pascal-Moussellard wrote one of the most compelling descriptions of Dharavi to date which was published in Le Monde.