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.

Dry hard data on circulatory migration in India hides vibrant, lively stories. 

The biggest growth in urbanisation is not taking place in the metropolis but in small towns that are networked with villages.

Conceptualised by designers in collaboration with users and local artisans, the Handstorm workshop takes objects used in everyday life and gives them a spin to be more functional to the users.

Housing must be seen as a process rather than a product: its values lie in the relationship and inter-action between the actors, their activities and the produced house.

What does the mutation of colonial Bombay into global Mumbai mean for architectural forms and public life?

The Konkan connection to Mumbai is only part of a larger universe in which the city’s force of gravity pulls together many other such regions.

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

The urbz office located in a building on M.G. Road, Dharavi, demonstrates how the conviviality of the live-work dialectic actualizes itself in this particular case.