Architecture, basic design and past experiences
When discussing basic design with the students of first year, I often experimented a lot by changing and developing new exercises to keep the mood alive in classroom. Discussions on past experiences are very common in any basic design sessions, to keep the content simple and easy to understand its better to place the examples from daily life in discussions. Following is one of the exercises I experimented with the students.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Web 2.0 for Architecture education.
I recently completed my first ever workshop on web 2.0 applications for Architecture education. During my talk at Goa college of Architecture, I stressed on the importance of e learning and collaborative learning. Though many of the participants were aware of basic applications on internet and they were also comfortably engaged with social networking websites, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )BIM in Architecture Education
Since the birth of this three letter God in AEC industry, I have come across not less than 100 blogs, surveys, opinions and articles, and these are growing in leaps and bounds.
Even Architecture Institutes as usual seem to be pulling up socks for adopting this new technology, but with do’s and dont’s there are many [...]
Technology at Architecture Institutes
Now after more than a decade has passed, Architects somehow have been convinced that computers have replaced the drawing boards to greater extent, worldwide. Still today in India, computers have to enter into Architectural education through back doors only. One has to be optimistic enough to believe that, computers will be at forefront of Architecture [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Minimalism
Everybody seems to be talking about it, atleast in architecture institutions and office. Minimalism, is all about meeting the basic requirements in the purest form.
“But minimalism is inhumane”..said Himanshu Burte. Indeed, he has a very strong stand. During my jury of design, i tried my best to explain him abou how i have undrerstood “minimalism”. [...]
