Indian Architect & Builder Magazine - October 2017

In this issue

How Crafting Architecture Builds Economic Resilience in the Construction Industry – Snehanshu Mukherjee, Craft and Design: learning resilience from the Indian craft clusters and communities – Naga Nandini.

Scaling New Heights

Inconversation with Dr Prashanth Reddy, Managing Director, FunderMax India, he highlights about the journey of FunderMax India Pvt Ltd in last 10 years; how the brand has customized and provided cutting edge product solutions to establish itself as a leading Facade Cladding brand in India.

5 mins

Conserving The Past For The Future

While history is a largely intangible phenomenon, architecture is one of the few artistic sciences that lend history a certain kind of tangibility. It offers us a chance to experience the past through the built landscape, making it possible to, quite literally, walk down the memory lane. However, our increasingly apathetic attitudes have reduced heritage architecture to elaborate yet unkempt, decaying structures, and conservation to superficial beautification.

9 mins

Preserving An Old-world Charm In A New-age Milieu

In a city clawing for space, there are pockets that still retain a built fabric reminiscent of the olden days. In a city competing for modernity, there are precincts that hold onto a culture that is distinct and adds flavor to the otherwise bland every-day life. Aptly demonstrating this dichotomy, the restoration of the Cama Building at Murzban Colony in Mumbai by conservation architect Vikas Dilawari is a shining example of how conservation and restoration efforts not only preserve structures of the past, but also a way of life that is impossible to replicate outside of its cultural context.

6 mins

Contemporizing Traditional Water Architecture of India

Water crisis is perhaps not a recent phenomenon. From time immemorial, the Indian subcontinent has witnessed deluges and famines. Each region has had an indigenous system to preserve the excesses or mitigate scarcity. It is increasingly critical to not only revive this past but also conserve and subsequently build for the future by taking a leaf from the chapters of yore.

4 mins

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One of the oldest architecture journals in India, IA&B goes digital ! With a history of 29 years, IA&B has published and continues to publish some of the most critical, exemplary and innovative content in the Indian context.

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