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- [Issues](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/) - TEKTON JOURNAL ISSUES [ISSN (Print): 2349-6282] Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2025 Volume 11, Issue 1, July 2024 Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2023 July 2023 March 2021 March 2020 March 2019 September 2018 March 2018 September 2017 March 2017 September 2016 March 2016 March 2015
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2025 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 ISSN (Online): 2584-0797 EDITORIAL Neha Sayed Simone Le Grange Sonali Gurung Priya Gupta Neethu Mathews Himadri Das Maulik Chauhan Daniel DSouza [pp. 102 – 111]
- [The Need for Urban Vitality Studies in India](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/papers-essays/the-need-for-urban-vitality-studies-in-india/) - Daniel DSouza Tekton Tekton: Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2025 pp. 102 – 111 daniel.dsouza.phd23@cept.ac.in ABSTRACT This essay argues that studying urban vitality in public spaces is an important prerequisite for good urban design in Indian cities. This essay draws on Maas’s definition of urban vitality and examines how these elements manifest in India’s urban
- [Contested spaces: The Production of Indian streets through Negotiations, Trade-off and Claim-making in Ahmedabad](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/papers-essays/contested-spaces-the-production-of-indian-streets-through-negotiations-trade-off-and-claim-making-in-ahmedabad/) - Maulik Chauhan Tekton Tekton: Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2025 pp. 92 – 101 Maulik Chauhan is an architect who graduated from CEPT University and is an alumnus of NUS, Singapore, with a Master’s in Urban Design. Presently, a visiting faculty member at CEPT University, he teaches in the master’s and bachelor’s programs in the
- [Interpreting Leftover Data: The Logic of Spatial Appropriation and  Everyday Life in Chawls](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/papers-essays/interpreting-leftover-data-the-logic-of-spatial-appropriation-and-everyday-life-in-chawls/) - Neethu Mathew Tekton Tekton: Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2025 pp. 70 – 79 neethu.mathew.phd21@cept.ac.in ABSTRACT This essay presents a segment of my ongoing PhD research, focusing on the spatial imprints of everyday life in Mumbai’s chawls. The broader research aims to explore how residents in these urban neighbourhoods actively appropriate, alter, and negotiate space
- [Negotiations on the Facades of Marla Houses](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/papers-essays/negotiations-on-the-facades-of-marla-houses/) - Priya Gupta Tekton Tekton: Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2025 pp. 48 – 69 Priya Gupta, PhD, currently an Associate Professor at Jindal School of Art and Architecture, OP Jindal Global University, completed her doctoral degree from Faculty of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad. Her Ph.D. research analyses the impact of regulations on Chandigarh’s private houses. She
- [Decoding Darjeeling: The Politics of Maps and the Erasure of Space in its Narratives [1816-1940]](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/papers-essays/decoding-darjeeling-the-politics-of-maps-and-the-erasure-of-space-in-its-narratives-1816-1940/) - Sonali Gurung Tekton Tekton Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2025 pp. 34 – 47 sonali.gurung.phd23@cept.ac.in ABSTRACT Maps are not a neutral depiction of space but active instruments of power that construct redefine, and often erase landscapes. This essay examines colonial cartography’s role in reshaping Darjeeling’s spatial and cultural identity, reinforcing hegemony by erasing indigenous place
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-2/contents/) - Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2023 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 ISSN (Online): 2584-0797 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Biome Diaries: Now, Then & Emergence (2021) Chitra Vishwanath, Sharath Nayak, Anurag Tamhankar, Ishita Shah Jinu Kurien Amita Sinha Varssni Karthik Madhavi Patil Pradnya Patki and Sushama Parashar Mustansir Dalvi Behind the Scenes of an E-learning Platform Sonam Ambe and
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 11, Issue 1, July 2024 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 ISSN (Online): 2584-0797 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Neha Raje City: A guidebook for the Urban Age (2012) P.D. Smith | Bloomsbury Publishing Aruna Sri Reddy Arpita Dayal and Leon Morenas Maria Ujjainwala and Mustansir Dalvi Kaiwan Mehta [pp. 34 – 38]
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-2/contents/) - Volume 11, Issue 2, December 2024 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 ISSN (Online): 2584-0797 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi [pp. 4 – 7] PRACTICE Walkable Cities: Advocacy and Engagement Rishi Aggarwal, Vedant Mhatre, Aishwarya Tatke [pp. 84 – 92] REVIEW Archives in Transition Review of the Exhibition ‘Shifting Visions: Teaching Modern Art at the Bombay School’, Sir JJ School
- [Architecture and Urbanism in Cape Town: Displacement and Dehumanisation](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/papers-essays/architecture-and-urbanism-in-cape-town-displacement-and-dehumanisation/) - Simone le Grange Tekton Tekton: Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2025 pp. 08 – 33 Simone le Grange is a South African Architect and Urban Designer, with almost thirty years of experience in teaching and practice. Simone has always viewed her work as political. She is interested in the ways in which architecture and urban
- [Un-intended Emergences: Electronic Repair Clusters in the city; Voices of entrepreneurs from the Electronic Repair Cluster at Nehru  Place, New Delhi](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/papers-essays/un-intended-emergences-electronic-repair-clusters-in-the-city-voices-of-entrepreneurs-from-the-electronic-repair-cluster-at-nehru-place-new-delhi/) - Himadri Das Tekton Tekton: Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2025 pp. 80 – 91 Himadri Das is a doctoral candidate and works as a visiting faculty at CEPT University. His research explores micro-entrepreneurs in electronic repair clusters of the city. He is aiming at gaining a deeper understanding of processes that lead to evolution of
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/editorial/) - Neha Sayed This issue of Tekton comes as the first quarter of 21st century ends. With a lot of hope we prepared for the new Indian dream. A nation rising from the colonial past finally establishing its identity in the world. That pursuit continues. We also wonder if there can be an identity of a
- [Guest Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/guest-editorial/) - Meghal Arya Guest Editorial: Dialogue and Dissemination Research writing, while focused, tends to be a insular. Opportunities to share with peers, not the final paper, but the interim journey, the purpose, the findings, or the methods become valuable check posts that allow us to step outside that insularity and formal structures. The annual Research Symposium
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/papers-essays/)
- [Volume 12, Issue 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-12-issue-1/contents/)
- [Research in Architecture in India](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/practice/research-in-architecture-in-india/) - Madhavi Desai Tekton Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2018 pp. 70 – 79 mmdesai2@gmail.com Knowledge Generation in a Discipline “The building industry, the architectural profession, the school of architecture – none is structured in a way that facilitates or promotes systematic inquiry for knowledge building.” -(Snyder, 1984) In any discipline, research is considered the core
- [Messy Cities, Tidy Mechanisms: Urban Forms of Contemporary India](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-8-issue-1/papers-essays/messy-cities-tidy-mechanisms-urban-forms-of-contemporary-india/) - Anushka Shahdadpuri Tekton Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2021 pp. 46 – 55 Anushka Shahdadpuri graduated from Pillai College of Architecture. She is the founder of Aamchi, a mentoring, design and research platform centered around embedding culture and critical thinking within the architectural discourse. After her graduation, she worked at the School of Environment and
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-1/practice/) - Understanding Traditional Architecture of Himachal Pradesh: An Unconventional Approach Neha Raje Tekton Volume 11, Issue 1, July 2024 pp. 40-48 n.rajebhole@gmail.com ABSTRACT This essay describes some of the concerns, motivations and methods adopted by a young conservation practice – SARAHAN, led by Ar. Neha Raje. She uses the case of traditional temples built in Himachal
- [Locating Liminality in the Urban: Emergence Between the Planned and Lived](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-1/papers-essays/locating-liminality-in-the-urban-emergence-between-the-planned-and-lived/) - Arpita Dayal and Leon Morenas Tekton Tekton: Volume 11, Issue 1, July 2024 pp. 08 – 21 Arpita Dayal is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi. She is a double gold medallist and holds a Master’s degree in Urban Design from SPA, and is
- [Subscription Form](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/subscription/) - Mail your check/ DD along with a paper copy of the form to : The Principal MES Pillai College of Architecture Dr. K. M. Vasudevan Pillai Campus 10, Sector 16, New Panvel Navi Mumbai- 410206 India Download Form.pdf Size: 98.6KB Download Subscription Form (.pdf version)
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-2/contents/) - Volume 7, Issue 2, September 2020 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Kiran Keswani Adil Jussawalla in Conversation with Nari Gandhi Built: The Hidden Stories behind Our Structures, Roma Agrawal (2018) Aruna Sri Reddi Uma Sankar Sekar Preeti Pansare Pooja Ugrani [pp. 44 – 63]
- [Building Performance Assessment and Evaluation of Existing Buildings for Energy Efficiency: Case Study of Students' Accommodation in a University Campus](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/contents/parveen-kumar/) - Parveen Kumar Tekton Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2014 pp. 76 – 95 Parveen Kumar is Associate Professor at Department of Architecture, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal, Sonipat and is currently pursuing PhD in Architecture from the same institute in the field of energy efficient design of existing students’ accommodation in
- [A Student Perspective on Environmental Planning for Mysore, India](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/contents/dr-david-j-edelman/) - Dr. David J. Edelman Tekton Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2014 pp. 60 – 74 Dr. David J. Edelman is Professor of Planning at the School of Planning; College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. He was formerly Chairman of theDepartment of Urban Environmental Management at the Institute for Housing
- [Study of Crowding and Coping in Ladies Compartment in Mumbai Local: An Environmental Psychology Perspective](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/contents/sonam-ambe/) - Sonam Ambe Tekton Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2014 pp. 48 – 58 Sonam Ambe is Asst. Professor, AIKTC School of Architecture, Navi Mumbai. She is a designer at heart who loves to analyse and explore ideas. After her Bachelors in Architecture from Sir J.J. College of Architecture, she studied the social sciences and holds
- [Architectural History in India: A Post-Colonial Perspective](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/contents/amita-sinha/) - Amita Sinha Tekton Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2014 pp. 32 – 47 Amita Sinha is Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. Her landscape heritage projects in India include: Sarnath, Taj Mahal, Champaner-Pavagadh in Gujarat, Rockfort in Tiruchirapalli, Gomti Riverfront in Lucknow, Delhi Ridge, Govardhan
- [Spatialising Leisure: Colonial Punjab’s Public Parks as a Paradigm of Modernity](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/contents/dr-jyoti-pandey-sharma/) - Dr. Jyoti Pandey Sharma Tekton Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2014 pp. 14 – 30 Dr. Jyoti Pandey Sharma is a Professor in Architecture at Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal (Haryana), India. She received her PhD in Architecture from De Montfort University, Leicester United Kingdom in 2005. She engages with built
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/abstract-of-book-review/) - Case Studies of Hope Richa Sharma We are midways in 2014 and there has been already much anxiety, anticipation and change in the country. At a time when urban India has woken up to its concerns and hopes, it is obvious that cities play a pivotal role as arenas of action and agendas of discussion.
- [DIALOGUE](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/abstract-of-dialogue/rahul-mehrotra-in-conversation-with-mustansir-dalvi-mustansir-dalvi/) - The Agency of Architecture Rahul Mehrotra in Conversation with Mustansir Dalvi Tekton Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2014 pp. 106 – 119 Rahul Mehrotra is a practising architect and educator. He works in Mumbai and teaches at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he is Professor of Urban Design and Planning, and
- [PRACTICE](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/absract-of-practice/anupama-kundoo/) - Exhibiting Architecture in Full-Scale: Wall House, One to One at the 13th Architecture Biennale, Venice 2012 Anupama Kundoo Tekton Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2014 pp. 96 – 105 Anupama Kundoo graduated from Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai in 1989 and a year later started her practice in Auroville, Tamil Nadu. Her body of
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi With this, the first issue of Tekton, we embark upon a journey, relatively unchartered1, of establishing a research journal in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning. We do not view these as exclusive domains, but as fields2 with porous boundaries, in constant osmotic process, not only with one another but with multiple fields
- [From the Desk of the Patron](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/messages/dr-k-m-vasudevan-pillai/) - Dr. K.M. Vasudevan Pillai, CEO, MES It gives me great pleasure to present the first issue of Tekton, a new research journal in the fields of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, brought out by our Pillai College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai. With more than two decades of its existence, the college has progressively made its
- [MOOving Along: Following Cows in Changing Indian Cities](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/papers-essays/mooving-along-following-cows-in-changing-indian-cities/) - Rebecca Hui Tekton Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2015 pp. 08 – 24 Rebecca Hui was a Fulbright-Nehru Research Scholar and National Geographic Young Explorer studying, “The Secret Life of Urban Animals”, a project that covers how leopards, elephants, street dogs and cows are adapting to urban change in India. Moreover, she investigated the disappearance
- [Inclusive Cities: Towards Gender-Sensitive Urban India](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/papers-essays/inclusive-cities-towards-gender-sensitive-urban-india/) - Sudnya Mahimkar and V. A. Gokhale Tekton Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2015 pp. 26 – 36 Sudnya Mahimkar is an architect and a town planner. She is a research scholar pursuing PhD from University of Pune, India. Her areas of interest include gender studies and architecture, urban design and planning. She has three research
- [Resilient Slums: Role of Social Capital](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/papers-essays/resilient-slums-role-of-social-capital/) - Deepika Andavarapu and Mahyar Arefi Tekton Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2015 pp. 38 – 54 Deepika Andavarapu is a doctoral candidate in Regional Development Planning program at University of Cincinnati. Her doctoral dissertation is based on an ethnographic research on a slum in Visakhapatnam, India. Her research was primarily focused on understanding the resilience
- [Expressions of Modernity: Semiotic Isotopy on Bombay's Backbay Reclamation Buildings](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/papers-essays/expressions-of-modernity-semiotic-isotopy-on-bombays-backbay-reclamation-buildings/) - Mustansir Dalvi Tekton Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2015 pp. 56 – 73 Mustansir Dalvi is Professor of Architecture at Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai. He has lectured, read and published several papers and books on architectural history and heritage. He is particularly interested in the development of Indian Modernism in the early 20th
- [Writing the City – Shaping its Conscience](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/papers-essays/writing-the-city-shaping-its-conscience/) - Kaiwan Mehta Tekton Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2015 pp. 74 – 79 Writings on City, Bombay, City-Biography, Mental Life
- [Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/dialogue/) - Development Urbanism, Issues and possibilities: In Conversation with Henrik Valeur Richa Sharma Tekton Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2015 pp. 94 – 109 Henrik Valeur (b. 1966) is an architect-urbanist, founder and creative director of UiD – a networking urban consultancy and a pioneer in the field of collaborative and participatory planning and design. As
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi The future of our cities will depend upon how the discourse on development squares with notions of sustainability, inclusivity and preservation of historic memories. Creating equitable living conditions will have to take into account the ‘invisible’ entities – women, the poor and animals – how they negotiate our cities. We can begin by
- [Design Paradigms and their Impact on Education](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/papers-essays/design-paradigms-and-their-impact-on-education/) - Amita Sinha Tekton Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2015 pp. 52 – 57 Amita Sinha is Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. Her landscape heritage projects in India include: Sarnath, Taj Mahal, Champaner-Pavagadh in Gujarat, Rockfort in Tiruchirapalli, Gomti Riverfront in Lucknow, Delhi Ridge, Govardhan
- [Path and Place in Sacred Landscape: An Architectural Expression of Tuljapur's Pilgrimage](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/papers-essays/path-and-place-in-sacred-landscape-an-architectural-expression-of-tuljapurs-pilgrimage/) - Tejashree Lakras Tekton Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2015 pp. 34 – 50 Tejashree Lakras is a conservation architect, graduated from SPA, Delhi and currently an Assistant Professor at Pillai College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai. She graduated in Architecture from VNIT College, Nagpur where she secured the first position and her thesis on ‘Community Centre
- [Looking Backward from Today's Cities: A Take on Bellamy's Urban Utopia](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/papers-essays/looking-backward-from-todays-cities-a-take-on-bellamys-urban-utopia/) - Kanak Tiwari and Zeeshan Ibrar Tekton Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2015 pp. 18 – 32 Kanak Tiwari is an Urban Designer from Delhi with over 12 years’ experience in the urban sector. She is a commonwealth scholar and has an M.Phil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK. Currently, a consultant with
- [Accommodating an Urban Species](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/papers-essays/accommodating-an-urban-species/) - Patrick Lamson-Hall Tekton Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2015 pp. 08 – 16 Patrick Lamson-Hall is a Research Scholar at the NYU Stern Urbanisation Project. He completed a Masters degree in Urban Planning at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service in 2013; and a Bachelor’s degree from Portland State University in 2011. He is
- [Book Review - 2](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/book-review-2/) - Green is Common Sense Hema Mulchandani Tekton Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2015 pp. 97 – 99 The Green Building movement has acquired a large following in India and has gained talismanic status in the popular imagination. The buzz word in the construction industry today is ‘Green’. Statistics suggest that ‘green building movement’ is gaining
- [Book Review - 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/book-review-1/) - The Mind of an Architect Activist Amrut Deshpande Tekton Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2015 pp. 94 – 96 “Random Rubble: A Reader on the Vernacular” is a collection of the writings of R. L. Kumar, a self-taught architect who lived and worked in Bangalore. Kumar founded the Centre for Vernacular Architecture (CVA) in 2009,
- [Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/dialogue/) - Resilience in Design Pedagogy: In Conversation with David L. Hays Smita Dalvi Tekton Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2015 pp. 76 – 9 David L. Hays is Associate Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, founding principal of Analog Media Lab, and co-editor (with Jonathan D.
- [Golconde: India’s First Modern Building](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/papers-and-essays/golconde-indias-first-modern-building/) - Smita Dalvi Tekton Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2016 pp. 46 – 63 Smita Dalvi is a founding faculty of MES Pillai College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai and the editor of Tekton. She has been teaching architecture and aesthetics in Navi Mumbai and Mumbai. Her research areas are in Architecture, History of Art & Culture,
- [Charting a Future Building Culture](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/papers-and-essays/charting-a-future-building-culture/) - Suprio Bhattacharjee Tekton Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2016 pp. 32 – 45 Suprio Bhattacharjee is an architect, pedagogue, researcher and writer based in Mumbai. He is the Founder and Principal Architect of S|BAU / Suprio Bhattacharjee Architecture Unit. He has been teaching architecture since a decade and a half and is frequently invited as
- [State of the Profession: An Overview](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/papers-and-essays/state-of-the-profession-an-overview/) - A. G. Krishna Menon Tekton Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2016 pp. 24 – 30 A. G. Krishna Menon is a teacher, researcher, writer, architect, urban planner and conservation consultant practicing in Delhi for over 40 years. He was the founder head of the TVB School of Habitat Studies in Delhi. Currently, he is the
- [Rejuvenating Ganga: Challenges and Opportunities in Institutions, Technologies and Governance](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/papers-and-essays/rejuvenating-ganga-challenges-and-opportunities-in-institutions-technologies-and-governance/) - Kelly D. Alley Tekton Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2016 pp. 08 – 23 Ganga, Rejuvenation, Wastewater Treatment, Bioremediation, Governance
- [Review-2](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/review-2/) - An Ode to the Craftsman Richa Sharma The noted historian, Ramchandra Guha during a lecture in Mumbai said while highlighting the lack of documentation of the contemporary, post-Independence history of India: “The history of the fifties, sixties and seventies, the decades in which the nation was shaped is absolutely crucial”. This is especially true of
- [About](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/about-us/) - TEKTON A Journal of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning About the Tekton Tekton is a scholarly, refereed journal brought out under the aegis of the Mahatma Education Society, Mumbai and its Pillai College of Architecture, New Panvel, Navi Mumbai. It will be published bi-annually (September and March) in both print and digital media. Tekton envisages
- [Review-1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/review-1/) - Transforming the Disciplinary Boundary Amita Sinha The exhibition titled, ‘Outside Design’, a collateral event of the First Chicago Architecture Biennial, of visually arresting full-scale installations is claimed to be a series of laboratories for design experiments. A few of these experiments are grounded in observations of behavior of urban wildlife and of materials under varying
- [Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/dialogue/) - Contradictions and Complexities in Urban Conservation Conversation with Vikas Dilawari Mustansir Dalvi Tekton Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2016 pp. 72 – 87 Vikas Dilawari is a conservation architect with more than two and half decades of experience exclusively in the conservation field, ranging from urban to architecture to interiors. He obtained his double Masters
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi “Does Architecture Matter?”- one of the questions raised by the recently held ‘State of Architecture’ (SOA) exhibition in Mumbai1 packs profound implications for the profession, its practice and education and its criticism. One of them is the self-perception of the profession; the other is the way society perceives it. Does the profession impact
- [Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/dialogue/) - Research in Temple Architecture Conversation with Adam Hardy Salil Sayed Tekton Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016 pp. 94 – 107 Adam Hardy is Professor of Asian Architecture at The Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK, where he runs the research centre PRASADA (www.prasada.org.uk). Adam studied Architecture at Cambridge University and worked in architectural
- [Creating a Civic Realm: Ganga Riverfront Revitalization, Patna](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/practice/creating-a-civic-realm-ganga-riverfront-revitalization-patna/) - Nishant Lall Tekton Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016 pp. 76 – 87 Nishant Lall is an architect and an urban designer based in New Delhi and is a visiting faculty to the Department of Urban Design at the School of Planning and Architecture- SPA, Delhi. After working and teaching for a decade in Los
- [The Satras of Majuli on the Brahmaputra](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/papers-essays/the-satras-of-majuli-on-the-brahmaputra/) - Vikram Pawar Tekton Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016 pp. 58 – 75 Vikram Pawar is an architect and a faculty member at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai. He acquired his B.Arch. and M.Arch. (Urban Conservation) from the Mumbai University. He has been actively involved in undertaking documentation and measured drawing exercises in
- [Dwarka Lost and Reclaimed: Planning for a Resilient Landscape](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/papers-essays/dwarka-lost-and-reclaimed-planning-for-a-resilient-landscape/) - Heena Gajjar and Amita Sinha Tekton Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016 pp. 36 – 57 Heena Gajjar was a University Olmstead Scholar in 2015 and graduated with a Masters in Landscape Architecture from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. She is currently working as a landscape designer with Sasaki Associates in Watertown, MA.
- [Claiming the Riverfront: Building the Prinsep Ghat in Colonial Calcutta](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/papers-essays/claiming-the-riverfront-building-the-prinsep-ghat-in-colonial-calcutta/) - Swati Chattopadhyay Tekton Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016 pp. 22 – 35 Swati Chattopadhyay is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005); Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New
- [The Water Conserving Syntax: A Rationale for Sustainable Urban Performance](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/papers-essays/the-water-conserving-syntax-a-rationale-for-sustainable-urban-performance/) - Rahul Paul and Mohan Rao Tekton Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016 pp. 08 – 21 Rahul Paul, a graduate from Architectural Association, London, MA (Landscape Urbanism), is a Senior Associate with Integrated Design (INDE), Bangalore, where he is involved in developing landscape infrastructure strategies for large scale urban projects. Rahul has participated in several
- [Impacts of Private Urban Mega Projects: Case of Bahria Icon, Karachi](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/papers-essays/impacts-of-private-urban-mega-projects-case-of-bahria-icon-karachi/) - Suneela Ahmed and Rahat Arsalan Tekton Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2017 pp. 66 – 79 Suneela Ahmed is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning, NED University of Engineering and Technology (NEDUET) Karachi, Pakistan. She received her PhD from Oxford Brookes University, UK in 2016. She has bachelors in Architecture form Indus
- [Impact of Gating on Neighbourhood Street Pattern in Gurgaon](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/papers-essays/impact-of-gating-on-neighbourhood-street-pattern-in-gurgaon/) - Ajay Kaushik Tekton Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2017 pp. 54 – 65 Ajay Kaushik graduated from School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi in 1996. He finished his Master in Architectural Conservation form SPA, Delhi in 1999. Currently Working as Associate Professor and Head of Department in The State Institute of Urban Planning and Architecture,
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2014 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 From the Desk of the Patron Dr. K.M. Vasudevan Pillai Editorial Smita Dalvi Practice Exhibiting Architecture in Full-Scale: Wall House, One to One at the 13th Architecture Biennale, Venice 2012 Anupama Kundoo Rahul Mehrotra in Conversation with Mustansir Dalvi Transforming Our Cities: Postcards of Change by
- [In-situ Redevelopment for Slum Rehabilitation in Kolkata](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/papers-essays/in-situ-redevelopment-for-slum-rehabilitation-in-kolkata/) - Shreyonti Chakraborty and Shivashish Bose Tekton Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2017 pp. 40 – 53 Shreyonti Chakraborty is final year student of Architecture at Jadavpur University. Her research interest includes exploring techniques of adaptive reuse of old buildings and design development of replicable housing prototypes for a variety of user groups. She has won
- [Crafting an Aesthetic for Habitats](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/papers-essays/crafting-an-aesthetic-for-habitats/) - Matias Echanove, Rahul Srivastava Tekton Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2017 pp. 28 – 39 Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava are co-founders of urbz.net, a platform for experimental urban research and action, with collaborators in Mumbai, São Paulo, Bogotá and Geneva. The work of urbz has been exhibited at the MoMA in New York, MAXXI
- [Coping Strategies for Crowded Environments: Case of Public Transport Systems in Delhi](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/papers-essays/coping-strategies-for-crowded-environments-case-of-public-transport-systems-in-delhi/) - Nishita Mohta, Karishma Sehgal, Shamita Chaudhry, Tanvi Goel Tekton Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2017 pp. 8 – 27 Crowding, Proxemics, Coping, User Behaviour, Spatial Appropriation, Delhi, Public Transport.
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/practice/) - Re-imagining Dharavi Nimit Killawala Tekton Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2017 pp. 80 – 89 Nimit Killawala is a director at Group Seven Architects + Planners, Mumbai. He obtained his MA in Housing & Urbanism from Architecture Association School of Architecture, London. He is currently involved in the design and execution of residential, commercial and
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2015 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 Editorial Smita Dalvi Practice A Project’s Journey Kamu Iyer Henrik Valeur in Conversation with Richa Sharma “India: The Urban Transition – a Case Study of Development Urbanism” by Henrik Valeur, The Architectural Publisher B, 2014 Pallavi Dalal Rebecca Hui Sudnya Mahimkar and V. A. Gokhale Deepika
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- [Submission Guidelines](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/submission-guidelines/) - Call for Papers Tekton invites research papers, essays, interviews or book reviews in the areas of architecture, urban design and planning, history and heritage, technology, ecology, theory and criticism, visual design, pedagogy, practice or any other relevant subject pertaining to built environment. Academics and practitioners are invited to share their critical engagements in respective research,
- [Dialogue – 2](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/dialogue-2/) - Apprentice to Architect: Finding one’s Voice In conversation with Girish Doshi Smita Dalvi Tekton Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2017 pp. 94 – 105 Girish Doshi is the principal at Navakar Architects, Pune and also a much loved teacher of architecture. He graduated from BKPS School of Architecture, Pune and apprenticed with Balkrishna Doshi at
- [Publication Policy](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/publication-policy/) - Periodicity and Access The Tekton Journal is published biannually, every July and September of a calendar year. The journal is published in print form and online with open access. There are no publication fees or advertising. The journal is supported by subscription of print copies and institutional endowment by Mahatma Education Society, Mumbai in service
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/contents/) - Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2015 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 Editorial Smita Dalvi Practice Iterations and Evolution: New Classroom Cluster at IIM-B Sanjay Mohe David Hays in Conversation with Smita Dalvi Amrut Deshpande Green is Common Sense Hema Mulchandani Patrick Lamson-Hall Looking Backward from Today’s Cities: A Take on Bellamy’s Urban Utopia Kanak Tiwari and Zeeshan
- [Dialogue – 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/dialogue-1/) - Engaging with Critical Discourse in Architecture In conversation with Kevin Mark Low Kiran Keswani Tekton Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2017 pp. 80 – 93 Kevin Mark Low is an architect by training and lives in the monsoon tropics. Raised in Southeast Asia, he spent nine years in the United States before returning to Malaysia
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2016 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 Editorial Smita Dalvi Practice The Challenges of Running a Structural Engineering Practice Alpa Sheth Vikas Dilawari in conversation with Mustansir Dalvi Exhibition- Outside Design, Chicago (2015), Curated by Jonathan Solomon Amita Sinha The Architecture of I.M. Kadri by Kaiwan Mehta, Niyogi Books (2016) Richa Sharma Kelly
- [Cultivating Landspace: Salt Farming in the Little Rann of Kutch](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/papers-essays/cultivating-landspace-salt-farming-in-the-little-rann-of-kutch/) - Gunali Ajgaonkar Tekton Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2017 pp. 54 – 69 Gunali Ajgaonkar is a recent graduate of Architecture from Sir J J College of Architecture, Mumbai. A sensitisation towards the issues of communities, environments and ecologies over the course of her education, urges her to contribute to architecture that is socially responsible
- [Death and Life on the Varanasi Ghats](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/papers-essays/death-and-life-on-the-varanasi-ghats/) - Amita Sinha Tekton Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2017 pp. 36 – 53 Amita Sinha is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. She is the author of Landscapes In India: Forms and Meanings (University Press of Colorado, 2006; reprinted by Asia Educational Services, 2011)
- [Geometry in Architectural Education](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/papers-essays/geometry-in-architectural-education/) - Sushama Joglekar Tekton Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2017 pp. 24 – 35 Sushama Joglekar is Professor in University of Mumbai at Sir J.J. College of Architecture. She obtained her PhD from S.N.D.T. Women’s University on the subject of Architectural Education. She has teaching experience of 29 years. She has conducted electives in the subject
- [Architectural Education and Practice in Nigeria](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/papers-essays/architectural-education-and-practice-in-nigeria/) - Kingsley O. Dimuna Tekton Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2017 pp. 8 – 23 Kingsley O. Dimuna is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria. He is a 1991 graduate of Bendel State University, Ekpoma and holds a B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Architecture. He is a fully
- [The Politics of Acknowledgement: Exploding the Male Architectural Canon](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/papers-essays/the-politics-of-acknowledgement-exploding-the-male-architectural-canon/) - Nancy Adajania Tekton Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2018 pp. 74 – 81 Nancy Adajania is a cultural theorist and curator based in Bombay. Since the late 1990s, she has written consistently on the practices of four generations of Indian women artists. Her book, The Thirteenth Place: Positionality as Critique in the Art of Navjot
- ['This New Architecture': Contemporary Voices on Bombay's Architecture Before the Nation State](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/papers-essays/this-new-architecture-contemporary-voices-on-bombays-architecture-before-the-nation-state/) - Mustansir Dalvi Tekton Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2018 pp. 56 – 73 mustansirdalvi@gmail.com ABSTRACT This paper traces the development of a modern urban sensibility in the practitioners of architecture in Bombay in the decades before the Nation State. Largely home-grown, they embraced a form of international Modernism. The architecture of the time was prolific
- [Authoring Design Studios](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/papers-essays/authoring-design-studios/) - Meghal Arya Tekton Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2018 pp. 46 – 55 Meghal Arya is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad and a partner at Arya Architects. She has been teaching design studios for almost two decades that include guest professorships at several international institutions. She is currently a
- [Ecological Impact of Urban Development: Lakes of Bengaluru](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/papers-essays/ecological-impact-of-urban-development-lakes-of-bengaluru/) - Chandrakanth K. Tekton Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2018 pp. 22 – 45 Chandrakanth K. possesses a Bachelor’s in Architecture from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli and Masters in Urban Planning from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Presently, he is the principal architect & planner at Radiant Build Infra Solutions, Coimbatore and associate
- [Messages](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/messages/dr-k-m-vasudevan-pillai/) - From the Desk of the Patron Dr. K.M. Vasudevan Pillai, CEO, MES It gives me great pleasure to present the first issue of Tekton, a new research journal in the fields of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, brought out by our Pillai College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai. With more than two decades of its existence,
- [Green Building Rating Systems: A Comparative Analysis](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/papers-essays/green-building-rating-systems-a-comparative-analysis/) - Supriya Nene Tekton Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2018 pp. 8 – 21 Supriya Nene is the Principal of Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s College of Architecture, Pune. She graduated from MSU, Vadodara (1992) in Architecture with fascination for then just introduced digital tools. She went to University of Cincinnati (1996-98) on University Grants Scholarship and Research
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/book-review/) - A Window to Design Research Tekton Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2018 pp. 96 – 99 Amita Sinha Galen Cranz has written an engaging treatise and manual for designers on how to do research that would be useful in their practice. A design educator with a background in sociology, Cranz brings over four decades of
- [Contact](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/contact/) - For Submission of Papers/ Essays: Email: editor.tekton@mes.ac.in (please refer to the guidelines) For Subscription related Correspondence: MES Pillai College of Architecture, Dr. K. M. Vasudevan Pillai Campus Plot No. 10, Sector 16 New Panvel – 410 206 Maharashtra, India Tel : 022 – 2745 6030 / 6100 Fax : 022 – 2748 3208 Email: tekton@mes.ac.in
- [Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/dialogue/) - Social Dimension of Design and Design Education In conversation with Galen Cranz Amita Sinha Tekton Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2018 pp. 88 – 95 Galen Cranz received her Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Chicago and taught in Princeton University School of Architecture from 1971-75. Since 1975, she has been teaching in the Department
- [Architecture as Social History: Jewish Heritage in Bombay and the Konkan](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/papers-essays/architecture-as-social-history-jewish-heritage-in-bombay-and-the-konkan/) - Smita Dalvi Tekton Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2018 pp. 50 – 69 Smita Dalvi is a founding faculty of MES Pillai College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai and the editor of Tekton. She has been teaching architecture and aesthetics in Navi Mumbai and Mumbai. Her research areas are in Architecture, History of Art & Culture,
- [Wall Morphology in Historic Buildings in Pondicherry](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/papers-essays/wall-morphology-in-historic-buildings-in-pondicherry/) - Hareesh Haridasan and Arun Menon Tekton Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2018 pp. 34 – 39 Hareesh Haridasan is a Conservation Architect and a senior project officer with National Centre for Safety of Heritage Structures (NCSHS) at IIT Madras. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from University of Mumbai (2010) and Masters in Architecture
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2017 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Nimit Killawala The Architecture of Hasmukh C. Patel: Selected Projects 1963-2003 by Catherine Desai, Bimal Patel, Mapin Publishing (2017) Neha Sayed In The Name of Housing: A Study of 11 Projects In Mumbai by Sameep Padora, UDRI (2016) Pooja Ugrani Case of Public
- [Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/dialogue/) - Architecture Discourse: Claiming New Zones of Exchange Conversation with Kaiwan Mehta Smita Dalvi Tekton Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2018 pp. 90 – 107 What are your views on practicing architecture as a discipline today considering that you have engaged with it in multiple ways – as a teacher, researcher, curator and editor? MEHTA It
- [Small Parks and their Communities: Ethnographies of the Public Realm](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/papers-essays/small-parks-and-their-communities-ethnographies-of-the-public-realm/) - Amita Sinha Tekton Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2018 pp. 20 – 33 sinha2@illinois.edu ABSTRACT Small urban parks are catalysts in promoting place-based communities. Their ‘centeredness’ is essential for successful social use as Jane Jacobs pointed out in Death and Life of Great American Cities. Subsequent studies of urban parks by Clare Cooper Marcus confirm
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/contents/) - Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2017 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi PAPERS & ESSAYS Architectural Education and Practice in Nigeria Kingsley O. Dimuna [pp. 8 – 23] Geometry in Architectural Education Sushama Joglekar [pp. 24 – 35] Death and Life on the Varanasi Ghats Amita Sinha [pp. 36 – 53] Cultivating Landspace: Salt Farming
- [Master Planned Mixed-Use: Lessons from Delhi](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/papers-essays/master-planned-mixed-use-lessons-from-delhi/) - Manu Mahajan Tekton Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2018 pp. 8 – 19 Manu Mahajan is Assistant Professor of Urban Design at School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi. He holds Masters Degrees in Urban Design from SPA, New Delhi and Urban Economic Development from DPU, Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, University College London,
- [Urban Fringe Development around Bannerghatta National Park, Bangalore](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/papers-essays/urban-fringe-development-around-bannerghatta-national-park-bangalore/) - Dakshayini R. Patil and Mamatha P. Raj Tekton Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2019 pp. 40 – 57 Dakshayini R. Patil is currently Associate Professor at BMSCA, Bangalore. Her B.Arch. is from BVB Hubli (1999), M.Arch. in Urban design from RVCE Bangalore (2010) with Doctoral thesis on Pedestrian mobility of elderly citizens in residential neighborhoods.
- [Social Life in a Smart Neighbourhood, The Case of K. K. Nagar, Chennai](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/papers-essays/social-life-in-a-smart-neighbourhood-the-case-of-k-k-nagar-chennai/) - Devyani Gangopadhyay and Prathyusha Ravi Tekton Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2019 pp. 24 – 39 Devyani Gangopadhyay is an academician and architect with undergraduate degree from Bengal Engineering College, Kolkata, and a post graduate degree in Planning from Anna University, Chennai. She completed her Doctoral Research from CEPT University, Ahmedabad. With a keen interest
- [Bow Barracks – The Identity of Anglo-Indians in Kolkata: Fight for Survival](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/papers-essays/bow-barracks-the-identity-of-anglo-indians-in-kolkata-fight-for-survival/) - Kanupriya Goel and Shivashish Bose Tekton Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2019 pp. 8 – 23 Kanupriya Goel is an architect and conservationist. She did her Bachelor of Architecture in 2009 from Uttar Pradesh and Master of Architecture and Settlement Conservation at Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University (CEPT) in Gujarat in 2011. She
- [Phenomenology in Architecture](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/book-review/phenomenology-in-architecture/) - Tekton Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2019 pp. 66 – 69 Fatema Kabir Coined by Edmund Husserl, the philosophy of Phenomenology has been in discussion since early 1900s. French Philosopher Merleau-Ponty in 1945 triggered a discussion on human perception of the existential environment (lived world). This inspired an inter-disciplinary connect between the philosophy of phenomenology
- [Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/dialogue/) - Landscape Lens – A View of Public Parks and Landscape Practices Conversation with Aniket Bhagwat Reshma Sathe Tekton Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2019 pp. 58 – 65 Professor Aniket Bhagwat is a third generation landscape architect practising in Ahmedabad with M/s. Prabhakar B Bhagwat, a firm started by his father eight decades ago. Arguably
- [Deconstructing the Gender in Construction Industry](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-1/papers-essays/deconstructing-the-gender-in-construction-industry/) - Sudnya Mahimkar and Seema Shah Tekton Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2020 pp. 34 – 45 Sudnya Mahimkar is Principal of MES Pillai College of Architecture, New Panvel. She acquired her PhD in Architecture from Pune University on the subject of “Gender Appropriate Outdoor Public Leisure Spaces: Case of Mumbai”. Her research areas are Gender
- [The Changing Role of the Contemporary Public Realm: Case of Industrial Design Districts in Milan](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-1/papers-essays/the-changing-role-of-the-contemporary-public-realm-case-of-industrial-design-districts-in-milan/) - Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna Tekton Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2020 pp. 18 – 32 Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna is an architect-urban designer and holds a Master’s Degree in Urban Design from CEPT University (2018). She pursued her independent research project semester with Politecnico di Milano University, Italy. She has since been involved in urban design and architectural projects
- [Natural Ventilation as a Key Airborne Infection Control Measure for Tuberculosis Care Facilities: A Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-1/papers-essays/natural-ventilation-as-a-key-airborne-infection-control-measure-for-tuberculosis-care-facilities-a-review/) - Raja Singh and Anil Dewan Tekton Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2020 pp. 08 – 17 Raja Singh is a PhD candidate at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He is working in the area of Infection Spread in Hospitals and other areas and the role of Architecture in containing it. He completed
- [Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-1/dialogue/) - An International Perspective of Contemporary Urban Planning Conversation with Ray Bromley Aruna Reddi Tekton Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2020 pp. 54 – 66 Dr. Ray Bromley served on the full-time faculty of the State University of New York at Albany, from 1985 till his retirement in January 2020 with a full professorship since 1987.
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-1/practice/) - Design Challenges in Present Day Housing: Learnings from Tara Apartments Sanjay Kumbhare and Sushama Dhepe Tekton Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2020 pp. 46 – 53 Sanjay Kumbhare has 21 years of teaching experience and also has a full- time practice experience of 9 years in India and abroad. He has completed many design projects
- [A Study of Address-giving as an Expression of Identity in CIDCO Housing Communities in Navi Mumbai](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-2/papers-essays/a-study-of-address-giving-as-an-expression-of-identity-in-cidco-housing-communities-in-navi-mumbai/) - Pooja Ugrani Tekton Volume 7, Issue 2, September 2020 pp. 44 – 63 Pooja Ugrani graduated from Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai and has a PG diploma in Indian Aesthetics from Janana Pravaha, Mumbai. She recently completed her M.Arch. Degree by research from Mumbai University where she analysed the expression of ownership at the
- [Cradle for the Dead or Monument for the Living](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-2/papers-essays/cradle-for-the-dead-or-monument-for-the-living/) - Preeti Pansare Tekton Volume 7, Issue 2, September 2020 pp. 22 – 42 Preeti Pansare is a doctoral student at the University of Strathclyde. She graduated from Pillai’s College of Architecture and acquired her M. Arch. in Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She also obtained a P.G. Diploma in Indian Aesthetics
- [The Landscape of Lawn](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-2/papers-essays/the-landscape-of-lawn/) - Uma Sankar Sekar Tekton Volume 7, Issue 2, September 2020 pp. 08 – 21 Uma Sankar Sekar is a landscape architect in the Boston area. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture. She is currently working on public / private schools and healthcare projects. She also writes a
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-2/practice/) - Traversing the City Through an Urban Design Research Practice Kiran Keswani Tekton Volume 7, Issue 2, September 2020 pp. 64 – 75 Kiran Keswani is a co-founder, Everyday City Lab (https://www.everydaycitylab.com/), an urban design and research collaborative in Bangalore that focuses on people-centric urban design and planning. She graduated in architecture from Mumbai in 1988.
- [Developing a Conceptual Framework for Curriculum Design in Architectural Education in India](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-8-issue-1/papers-essays/developing-a-conceptual-framework-for-curriculum-design-in-architectural-education-in-india/) - Sushama Dhepe and Archana Gaikwad Tekton Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2021 pp. 30 – 45 Sushama S. Dhepe is an Architect and Valuer. Presently working as an Associate Professor at Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University, College of Architecture, and Pune and member of Board of studies in Architecture. She obtained her Ph.D. from
- [Construction as a Key to Form-making: Laterite Ek-Ratna Temples in Bishnupur, Bengal](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-8-issue-1/papers-essays/construction-as-a-key-to-form-making-laterite-ek-ratna-temples-in-bishnupur-bengal/) - Peu Bannerjee Tekton Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2021 pp. 8 – 28 Peu Banerjee is an architectural historian, educationist and visiting faculty, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi; Architecture Graduate from Jadavpur University (Gold Medalist), M.Phil. from University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK); Currently pursuing PhD in SPA, New Delhi. She has
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2018 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Ashok B. Lall Amita Sinha in Conversation with Galen Cranz Ethnography for Designers Galen Cranz Routledge (2016) Amita Sinha Supriya Nene Chandrakanth K. Meghal Arya Mustansir Dalvi Nancy Adajania [pp. 74 – 81]
- [Factors Affecting the Expression of Ownership in Community Living in Urban India](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-1/papers-essays/factors-affecting-the-expression-of-ownership-in-community-living-in-urban-india/) - Pooja Ugrani Tekton Tekton: Volume 9, Issue 1, September 2022 pp. 62 – 83 Pooja Ugrani graduated from Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai and has a PG diploma in Indian Aesthetics from Jnana Pravaha, Mumbai. She has completed her M.Arch. Degree by research, partly by papers, from Mumbai University where she analysed the expression
- [Measuring Responsiveness of Public Open Spaces: a case of Nagpur City, India](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-1/papers-essays/measuring-responsiveness-of-public-open-spaces-a-case-of-nagpur-city-india/) - Pritam Ahirrao Tekton Volume 9, Issue 1, September 2022 pp. 38 – 61 Pritam Ahirrao is an Associate Professor at the D.Y. University, Pune. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Shivaji University and a Masters of Architecture degree (Urban Design) from R. V. College of Architecture, Bangalore. He has worked with several well-known
- [Towards Qualitative Reform of Architectural Education in India](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-1/papers-essays/towards-qualitative-reform-of-architectural-education-in-india/) - Kavita Pradhan Tekton Volume 9, Issue 1, September 2022 pp. 28 – 36 Kavita Pradhan is a Visiting Faculty of Space Design at Anant National University, Ahmedabad. She was an Associate Professor of Architecture at Pillai College of Architecture in the University of Mumbai from 2016 to 2022. She completed Bachelor’s degree from Pillai College
- [Unpacking the Pedagogy of Uncertainty in an Online Urban Design Studio](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-1/papers-essays/unpacking-the-pedagogy-of-uncertainty-in-an-online-urban-design-studio/) - Mahiyar Arefi and Amir Tayyebi Tekton Volume 9, Issue 1, September 2022 pp. 8 – 26 Mahyar Arefi was a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore and an International Affiliate Professor at Jundi-Shapur University of Technology in Dezful, Iran. He taught at the University of Texas at Arlington for four and at the
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-1/book-review/) - Sacred as Marker of Space in Mumbai Tekton Volume 9, Issue 1, September 2022 pp. 92 – 95 Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna The Neighborhood of Gods is a comprehensive and compelling ethnographic study of Mumbai’s marginalised communities and their urban spatial religious practices. Elison examines religion as traditional to India and in a capitalist society, its altered
- [Parks in Lucknow: Landscapes of Commemoration and Recreation](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-2/papers-essays/parks-in-lucknow-landscapes-of-commemoration-and-recreation/) - Amita Sinha Tekton Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2022 pp. 52-61 Amita Sinha is the author of Cultural Landscapes of India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) that won the 2022 J.B. Jackson Book Award and Landscapes of India: Forms and Meanings (University Press of Colorado, 2006; reprinted by Gyan Books, 2023).
- [Spectacle, Space and the Tragic in the Hindi Devdas Films](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-2/papers-essays/spectacle-space-and-the-tragic-in-the-hindi-devdas-films/) - Smita Dalvi Tekton Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2022 pp. 42-51 Smita Dalvi teaches architecture and aesthetics in Navi Mumbai and Mumbai for over 25 years. She is a Professor at MES Pillai College of Architecture, Panvel and the editor of Tekton – a scholarly journal of architecture published biannually. She holds a Ph.D. in
- [Re-Place](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-2/papers-essays/re-place/) - Nishant Modi Tekton Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2022 pp. 34-41 Nishant Modi is an Urban Designer and Assistant Professor at NMIMS’s Balwant Sheth School of Architecture. His research involves studies in Design Anthropology, mapping behaviors around everyday events and Collective Memory. He has worked on and participated in several urban design projects and competitions
- [The Liminal Shift towards Impact Design: Case of Malawi](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-2/papers-essays/the-liminal-shift-towards-impact-design-case-of-malawi/) - Dhawal Jain Tekton Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2022 pp. 26 – 33 Dhawal Jain is a winner of several awards including the Core 77 Community choice award and Design Intelligence’s ‘Design Futures Council’ Scholar. Dhawal has been working in the Architecture and Design industry for more than 7 years. He is the co-founder of
- [Tracing the Gothic Revival in Bombay through the Architecture of the University Buildings](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-2/papers-essays/tracing-the-gothic-revival-in-bombay-through-the-architecture-of-the-university-buildings/) - Mustansir Dalvi Tekton Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2022 pp. 8 – 25 Mustansir Dalvi is Professor of Architecture at Sir J.J. College of Architecture. His doctoral research, for which he received a PhD from the IIT-Bombay (IDC), examined Bombay’s Art Deco architecture from a semiotic perspective. He is the author of The Romance of
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/contents/) - Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2018 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Madhavi Desai Sonal Mithal Smita Dalvi in Conversation with Kaiwan Mehta Hareesh Haridasan and Arun Menon Smita Dalvi Manu Mahajan Amita Sinha Piero and Gloria Cicionesi, Mona Doctor-Pingel, Mapin (2018) Hemangi Kadu Brinda Somaya: Works & Continuities, Nandini Somaya Sampat (Ed), Mapin (2018)
- [Reviving Traditional Water System in Bijapur to Mitigate Current Water Shortage](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-1/papers-essays/reviving-traditional-water-system-in-bijapur-to-mitigate-current-water-shortage/) - Shruti Deogiri Tekton Tekton: Volume 10, Issue 1, July 2023 pp. 72 – 87 Shruti Deogiri graduated from BLDEA’S CET Department of architecture, Bijapur and now pursuing masters in sustainable architecture from BVDUCOA, Pune. She worked as an intern in ECOSAN services Pune on liquid waste management and sustainable way of water sanitation and development.
- [Wind Farm: Siting The New Energy Landscape in Dhule Fringe](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-1/papers-essays/wind-farm-siting-the-new-energy-landscape-in-dhule-fringe/) - Mansi Patil, Neha Masalekar Tekton Tekton: Volume 10, Issue 1, July 2023 pp. 48 – 71 Mansi Suresh Patil completed her B.Arch. from M.V.P.S. College of Architecture, Nashik in 2010. Along with the architectural practice she is currently pursuing her M. Arch (Landscape) from Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Architecture, Ambegaon, Pune. Research interest includes
- [Analyzing Traditional House Form for Climate Response: A Case of Kathiyawadi Haveli](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-1/papers-essays/analyzing-traditional-house-form-for-climate-response-a-case-of-kathiyawadi-haveli/) - Rucha Trivedi, Archana Gaikwad Tekton Tekton: Volume 10, Issue 1, July 2023 pp. 32 – 46 Rucha Trivedi A budding architect by profession, has completed her bachelor’s from L. J. School of Architecture, Ahmedabad. Further on, she has worked with SAGA, Bhavnagar after graduation. She developed keen interest in sustainable designs which lead to pursuing
- [“Loci - the Reawakening Path”: Towards Social Inclusion for Sustainable Development](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-1/papers-essays/loci-the-reawakening-path-towards-social-inclusion-for-sustainable-development/) - Srajati Tiwari Tekton Tekton: Volume 10, Issue 1, July 2023 pp. 18 – 30 Srajati Tiwari A young and enthusiastic learner who enjoys experimenting with the complexity of architecture in light of the evolving environment and the way society functions, while also being mindful of the sustainability aspect and the history of the specific area
- [Adobe Bricks Stabilized with Different Local Materials](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-1/papers-essays/adobe-bricks-stabilized-with-different-local-materials/) - Chinmayi Mali, Kanad Kumbhar, Suraj Shah Tekton Tekton: Volume 10, Issue 1, July 2023 pp. 8 – 16 Chinmayi Mali acquired her Masters in Sustainable Architecture from Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Architecture, (Deemed to be) University, Pune in 2022. She completed her bachelor’s degree from B. K. P. S. College of Architecture. Currently she is
- [Doshi’s Architecture: Breathing Life into the Static](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-2/papers-essays/doshis-architecture-breathing-life-into-the-static/) - Mustansir Dalvi Tekton Tekton: Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2023 pp. 66 – 71 Mustansir Dalvi is Professor of Architecture at Sir J.J. College of Architecture. His doctoral research, for which he received a PhD from the IIT-Bombay (IDC), examined Bombay’s Art Deco architecture from a semiotic perspective. He is the author of The Romance
- [Urban Insert in a Heritage Neighborhood in Siddhpur](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-2/papers-essays/urban-insert-in-a-heritage-neighborhood-in-siddhpur/) - Pradnya Patki and Sushama Parashar Tekton Tekton: Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2023 pp. 48 – 65 Pradnya Patki teaches at BKPS College of Architecture Pune and has an experience of 11 years. She has done M.Arch. in Environmental Architecture from University of Pune She is an IGBC AP. She has written 40 research papers.
- [Tekton Talk](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/tekton-talk/) - We announce the initiation of 'Tekton-Talk' a series of public lectures by eminent persons on architecture and urbanism. Tekton Talk 2023 Speaker: Mayuresh Gorey Date & Time: 28 March 2023, 2.00 PM Venue: Ground Floor Studio, PiCA Tekton Talk 2021 Date & Time: 16th December, 2021 at 7.00 p.m. IST Online session Speaker: Martin Duplantier,
- [Unlocking Urban Density: Beyond Numbers and into Perception](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-2/papers-essays/unlocking-urban-density-beyond-numbers-and-into-perception/) - Madhavi Patil Tekton Tekton: Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2023 pp. 33 – 47 madhavi.thakur@gmail.com ABSTRACT This paper explores the importance of investigating the perception of density in urban environments. It highlights the limitations of traditional, purely objective density metrics and argues for a more comprehensive approach that integrates subjective factors. The paper identifies supporting
- [Gotham: Analysing Urban Crime Instigators in the Batman Films](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-2/papers-essays/gotham-analysing-urban-crime-instigators-in-the-batman-films/) - Varssni Karthick Tekton Tekton: Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2023 pp. 15 – 32 Varssni Karthick is an architect, who recently graduated from MEASI Academy of Architecture, Chennai (2023) treading the lines between the real and imagined worlds. Her academic field of interest spans the study of urbanism to the discourse around architecture and cinema.
- [Cities for Children](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-2/papers-essays/cities-for-children/) - Amita Sinha Tekton Tekton: Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2023 pp. 08 – 14 Amita Sinha is the author of Cultural Landscapes of India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020; 2022 J.B. Jackson Book Award) and Landscapes of India: Forms and Meanings (University Press of Colorado, 2006; reprinted by Gyan Books, 2023).
- [The Architectural Object as the Vanity of History](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-1/papers-essays/the-architectural-object-as-the-vanity-of-history/) - Kaiwan Mehta Tekton Tekton: Volume 11, Issue 1, July 2024 pp. 34 – 38 kaiwanstudio@gmail.com ABSTRACT This essay reflects upon several questions on teaching of history of architecture arising out a sustained and thoughtful engagement with the subject in various forms. A most basic question that needs asking is about the purpose of teaching history
- [Circus Training Schools in India: Current Scenario and Challenges](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-1/papers-essays/circus-training-schools-in-india-current-scenario-and-challenges/) - Maria Ujjainwala and Mustansir Dalvi Tekton Tekton: Volume 11, Issue 1, July 2024 pp. 22 – 32 Maria Ujjainwala recently completed her graduation from Sir J.J College of Architecture. Currently working with Space Matrix as an assistant designer, she specializes in workspace design. In her final year Dissertation, she explored the world of Indian circuses
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-2/practice/) - Walkable Cities: Advocacy and Engagement Rishi Aggarwal, Vedant Mhatre, Aishwarya Tatke Tekton Volume 11, Issue 2, December 2024 pp. 84-92 @walkingprojectindia In this ‘Practice Essay’, we invite ‘Walking Project’- an organization, a program, founded by Rishi Aggarwal which advocates for walking friendly Indian cities. It works closely with the community and government to advocate about
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/contents/) - Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 Editorial Smita Dalvi Papers & Essays The Water Conserving Syntax: A Rationale for Sustainable Urban Performance Rahul Paul and Mohan Rao Swati Chattopadhyay Heena Gajjar and Amita Sinha Vikram Pawar Nishant Lall Kamu Iyer Adam Hardy in conversation with Salil Syed Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2019 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Aruna S. Reddi Reshma Sathe in conversation with Ar. Aniket Bhagwat Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture, Patricia M. Locke (Ed), Rachel Mccann (Ed). Ohio University Press (2016) Fatema Kabir Wooden Architecture of Kerala, by Miki Desai. Mapin (2019) Isaac Mathew Kanupriya Goel and Shivashish Bose Devyani
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2020 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Sanjay Kumbhare and Sushama Dhepe Aruna Reddi in Conversation with Ray Bromley The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History, Annapurna Garimella, Shriya Sridharan, A. Srivathsan (Eds.) (2019) Devipriya Pillai Raja Singh and Anil Dewan Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna Sudnya Mahimkar and Seema Shah [pp.
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-8-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2021 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Rohit Shinkre Mustansir Dalvi in Conversation with Kamu Iyer From Diagram to Design, Kamu Iyer (2020) Jinu Kurien Peu Banerjee Sushma Dhepe and Archana Gaikwad Anushka Shahdadpuri [pp. 46 – 55]
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 9, Issue 1, September 2022 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Sonam Ambe and Gita Balakrishnan The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai William Elison (2018) Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna Mahiyar Arefi and Amir Tayyebi Kavita Pradhan Pritam Ahirrao Pooja Ugrani [pp. 62 – 83]
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-2/contents/) - Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2022 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Mustansir Dalvi Dhawal Jain Nishant Modi Smita Dalvi Amita Sinha [pp. 52 – 61]
- [Contents](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-1/contents/) - Volume 10, Issue 1, July 2023 ISSN (Print): 2349-6282 EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi Behind the Scenes of an E-learning Platform [pp. 84 – 90] Shruti Deogiri BOOK REVIEW Sacred as Marker of Space in Mumbai [pp. 92 – 95] The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai William Elison (2018)
- [Editorial Team](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/editorial-team/) - [table id=3 /] Editorial Advisory Committee [table id=1 /] Publisher Mahatma Education Society, Chembur Naka, Mumbai- 400071 Maharshtra State, India
- [From the Desk of the Principal, PiCA](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/messages/dr-arif-n-merchant/) - Dr. Arif N. Merchant, Principal, PiCA Tekton marks a new beginning in Pillai College of Architecture. In the third decade of its existence graduates in architecture and now the first batch of post graduate students in urban design are making their mark. It is our philosophy to make a meaningful contribution to the society through
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/book-review/) - Sustainable Urbanism Pallavi Dalal Tekton Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2015 pp. 110 – 111 One of the most striking features of urbanisation is its dynamic nature. This is due to varying intermittent phases of the process whereby human society moves from being predominantly rural to being largely urban. Henrik Valeur in his book “India:
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/practice/) - A Project’s Journey Kamu Iyer Tekton Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2015 pp. 82 – 93 Kamu Iyer graduated in Architecture from Sir J.J.School of Art, Bombay, in 1957. In practice with Architects’ Combine since 1960, he has built extensively in Bombay and other parts of India. His practice covers a wide range of projects
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/practice/) - Iterations and Evolution: New Classroom Cluster at IIM-B Sanjay Mohe Tekton Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2015 pp. 62 – 75 Sanjay Mohe Mohe is a founder of the nine year old Bengaluru based practice-‘Mindspace’. Prior to that Mohe has had a working association of 22 years with Chandravarkar and Thacker Associates (CnT), Bengaluru’s well-known
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi On 16 June, we bid adieu to Charles Correa (1930 – 2015), one of the first generation Indian Masters in post-independence India. Correa began his practice in Bombay in 1955, as a young architect freshly returned from MIT, and continued to build till his last- his latest was the Ismaili Centre in Toronto.
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/practice/) - The Challenges of Running a Structural Engineering Practice Alpa Sheth Tekton Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2016 pp. 64 – 71 ALPA SHETH is the Managing Director of VMS Consultants Pvt. Ltd and Partner, Vakil Mehta Sheth Consulting Engineers, Mumbai for over 15 years. She holds a Master of Engineering degree from the University of
- [Reviews](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/reviews/) - Amita Sinha Pop-up Megacity Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity. Rahul Mehrotra and Felipe Vera (eds.). South Asia Institute, Harvard University (2015) Nancy Adajania Annotating Legacies 20th Century Compulsions. Mustansir Dalvi (ed.). Marg Publications (2016)
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/practice/) - Nishant Lall Creating a Civic Realm: Ganga Riverfront Revitalization, Patna Kamu Iyer Turf War on a Building Project
- [Annotating Legacies](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/reviews/annotating-legacies/) - Tekton Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016 pp. 112 – 117 Nancy Adajania Long before Mulk Raj Anand became the founding editor of Marg in 1946, he had achieved renown as a writer whose sympathies lay with the subaltern. Anand’s novel Untouchable (1935), which traces a day in the life of the sweeper and scavenger
- [Pop-up Megacity](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/reviews/pop-up-megacity/) - Tekton Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016 pp. 108 – 111 Amita Sinha The volume is the first comprehensive study of one of the Kumbh Melas where a large mass of faithful gather to bathe on riverbanks on auspicious occasions. These festival gatherings celebrate the event of amrit (nectar of immortality) falling on four spots
- [Turf War on a Building Project](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/practice/turf-war-on-a-building-project/) - Kamu Iyer Tekton Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016 pp. 88 – 93 KAMU IYER in practice with Architects’ Combine since 1960, has built extensively in Bombay and other parts of India. His practice covers a wide range of projects like low income housing, educational and institutional buildings and campuses and research facilities etc. His
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi Water is such an essential component of the Indian psyche. It is associated with the sacred places of all religions. Rivers as lifelines of civilisation also became sites of cultural importance, likewise with other natural water bodies. In urban India, water is a precious commodity in hot and dusty regions dependant on rain.
- [Book Review – 2](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/book-review-2/) - Spotlight on Housing Pooja Ugrani Tekton Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2017 pp. 94 – 95 The research and practice of architecture are often seen as isolated entities. It is naively assumed that the skills required for carrying out each are different from one another. These assumptions leave out the possible symbiotic enrichment of the
- [Book Review – 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/book-review-1/) - Memorabilia of a Practice Neha Sayed Tekton Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2017 pp. 90 – 93 The architectural practice of post-independence India has gone through an evolution. What began with the most idealistic contemporary form of the 1950s through various regional and non-regional influences has now become a complex pursuit seeking validity. Today, we
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi The question of slums poses the biggest conundrum. Slums are, in most part, the result of the inevitable migration to cities ever hungry for labour for its industries and services. The engine of economics that makes the city is fuelled by this migrant force but this same force is left to fend for
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-1/book-review/) - Rethinking the Hindu Temple Tekton Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2020 pp. 68 – 71 Devipriya Pillai The extensively studied, critiqued and extolled Hindu temples have been a huge part of the architectural landscape in India. For over one and a half millennia, temples are and have always been relevant and significant in the memory
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-8-issue-1/papers-essays/) - Construction as a Key to Form-making: Laterite Ek-Ratna Temples in Bishnupur, Bengal Peu Banerjee Sushma Dhepe and Archana Gaikwad Anushka Shahdadpuri [pp. 46 – 55]
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-1/papers-essays/) - Unpacking the Pedagogy of Uncertainty in an Online Urban Design Studio Mahiyar Arefi and Amir Tayyebi Kavita Pradhan Pritam Ahirrao Pooja Ugrani [pp. 62 – 83]
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-2/papers-essays/) - Tracing the Gothic Revival in Bombay through the Architecture of the University Buildings Mustansir Dalvi Dhawal Jain Nishant Modi Smita Dalvi Amita Sinha [pp. 52 – 61]
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-1/papers-essays/) - Adobe Bricks Stabilized with Different Local Materials Chinmayi Mali, Kanad Kumbhar, Suraj Shah [pp. 8 – 16] “Loci – the Reawakening Path”: Towards Social Inclusion for Sustainable Development Srajati Tiwari [pp. 18 – 30] Analyzing Traditional House Form for Climate Response: A Case of Kathiyawadi Haveli Rucha Trivedi, Archana Gaikwad [pp. 32 – 46] Wind
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-2/papers-essays/) - Cities for Children Amita Sinha Varssni Karthik Madhavi Patil Pradnya Patki and Sushama Parashar Mustansir Dalvi [pp. 66 – 71]
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-2/papers-essays/) - Architectural Authorship as Process: The Work of Mona Pinto, Golconde’s Building Manager Lili Boenigk Tejashree Lakras Kanisha Mahajan and Kavita Pradhan Amita Sinha and Smriti Dhariwal [pp. 70 – 83]
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/book-review/) - An Engineering Practice Tekton Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2017 pp. 106 – 109 Alpa Sheth For every hundred books on architects, there may perhaps be one book (or less) on a structural engineer. The reasons for a paucity of books on engineers are manifold. For one, they are a self-effacing lot, and shy away
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/practice/) - Sound Thinking: Practice of Acoustics Rolins Thomas Roy Tekton Volume 4, Issue 2. September 2017 pp. 70 – 79 Rolins Thomas Roy is the founder of Rolins Arcoustics, a Mumbai based consulting firm which primarily focuses on architectural acoustics and design. He is an architect with a post graduate specialization in Acoustics from the LSBU
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi Debates on how architects should be educated are eternal and that is a good thing. One only wishes that we would debate with equal passion how architecture ought to be practiced today. It would be self-defeating to think that the two can carry on oblivious of one another. In this issue, Kingsley Dimuna,
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/practice/) - Rethinking Values in Designing Architecture Ashok B. Lall Tekton Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2018 pp. 82 – 87 Ashok B. Lall is the principal at Ashok B. Lall Architects, Delhi. Among India’s most respected architects, he has been a pioneer in formally integrating sustainability into his architectural works – decades before the term attained
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi Who speaks for Indian architecture? Who are the influential voices that drive the discourse on practice in the millennium? There are several potential ‘mouth-pieces’ – from professional and semi-professional bodies, popular glossy magazines, a few scattered journals, conferences, symposia, even blogs. But how effective are these in articulating positions in architecture specific to
- [A Quilt of Many Colours](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/book-review/a-quilt-of-many-colours/) - Tekton Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2018 pp. 111 – 113 Suprio Bhattacharjee “A Quilt of Many Colours” – these are Brinda Somaya’s own words, from her note of acknowledgment in the book’s starting pages, as she describes this monograph that carries her name. In many ways this quoted extract is reflective of her practice
- [Tribute to Auroville Pioneers](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/book-review/tribute-to-auroville-pioneers/) - Tekton Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2018 pp. 108 – 110 Hemangi Kadu The youthful idealism of the 1960s served as an extraordinary opportunity for a certain experimental community in southern India. This community’s dream was to make an ideal township – Auroville – devoted to human unity based on the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo
- [Conservation of Red Fort: Confronting the Nostalgia Agenda](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/practice/conservation-of-red-fort-confronting-the-nostalgia-agenda/) - Sonal Mithal Tekton Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2018 pp. 80 – 89 How long can the practice of heritage conservation and management simply rely on nostalgia and capitalize on sentiments? Contemporary history of conservation practice in India has shown that unless the built heritage becomes a part of the contemporary society, it will remain
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi The terms ‘research’ or ‘criticism’ have gained more currency today than before. The question still remains if we have sufficiently progressed beyond the simplistic view of architecture as vocational training and practicing a trade. A discursive space of critical reflection is vital for the discipline, the health of which can be gauged by
- [Wooden Architecture of Kerala, A review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/book-review/wooden-architecture-of-kerala-a-review/) - Tekton Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2019 pp. 70 – 72 Isaac Mathew After the very popular Architecture and Independence: Search for Identity – India, 1880 to 1980 and the rigorous The Bungalow in Twentieth Century India: The Cultural Expression of Changing Ways of Life and Aspirations in the Domestic Architecture of Colonial and Post-Colonial
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/editorial/) - Aruna S. Reddi “This is so wrong… You have stolen my dreams… How dare you!!” reprimands Greta Thunberg in the UN Climate Action Summit 2019. She is a young teenager who is moving mountains to protect environment along with a million other school-going children throughout the world. The next generation is concerned about its future
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-1/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi This issue of Tekton is being brought out in the middle of a pandemic that has had a devastating effect on life as we knew it. Its prolonged nature indicates that some of these effects will have a lasting presence for better or for worse. Many terms have gained a common currency such
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-2/book-review/) - A Memoir on Civil Engineering Tekton Volume 7, Issue 2, September 2020 pp. 84 – 86 Aruna Sri Reddi The book ‘Built’ is written by Roma Agrawal who is a civil engineer by both training and practice. In this book, the author explains building materials, construction techniques, and influencing factors such as wind, fire, soil
- [Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-2/dialogue/) - Nari Gandhi: A Man of Vision Conversation with Nari Gandhi Adil Jussawalla Tekton Volume 7, Issue 2, September 2020 pp. 76 – 83 Nari Gandhi (1934–1993) was an Indian architect known for his highly innovative works inspired by the philosophy of organic architecture by legendary Frank Lloyd Wright with whom he apprenticed for five years
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-8-issue-1/book-review/) - Why do we need to look back? Tekton Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2021 pp. 78 – 81 Why do we need to look back? This is the question that Kamu Iyer asks in the opening paragraph of the book, From Diagram to Design, a book that distills five decades of the author’s architectural practice
- [Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-8-issue-1/dialogue/) - Bombay: a city as a living entity Conversation with Kamu Iyer Mustansir Dalvi Tekton Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2021 pp. 66 – 76 Kamu Iyer (1932-2020) graduated in Architecture from Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay, in 1957. In practice with Architects’ Combine since 1960, he built extensively in Bombay and the rest of
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-8-issue-1/practice/) - Architecture as Opportunities Rohit Shinkre Tekton Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2021 pp. 56-64 Rohit Shinkre is architect and educator based in Mumbai. He trained at Ecole d’Architecture de Paris and is the principal architect at Rohit Shinkre Architects. His professional experience over the past 25 years covers a variety of projects from infrastructure works,
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-8-issue-1/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi This is the third issue of Tekton being brought out since the COVID pandemic hit the world. In nearly two years now, we witnessed the life as we knew it drastically change. The prolonged nature of the pandemic indicates that some of these changes will have a lasting presence for better or for
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-1/practice/) - Behind the Scenes of an E-learning Platform Sonam Ambe and Gita Balakrishnan Tekton Volume 9, Issue 1, September 2022 pp. 84 – 90 Sonam Ambe is the Chief-in-Pedagogy at Acedge, an e-learning platform for architects. She is an alumnus of Sir J.J. College of Architecture and IIT Bombay. She was conferred the MASA Best Teachers
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-1/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi How have the institutes imparting architecture education in India responded to a few key features of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 such as emphasis on student-centric, flexible and multi-modal learning? The policy recommends a system in which a student would have freedom to choose what and how she wants to learn, allowing
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-2/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi This journal that we started in the year 2014, had articulated a vision of creating a space for academic research in architecture and built environment in such a way that this space opens up avenues for discursive practices through such writings. Disciplines such as architecture, urban design and planning can no longer be
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-1/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi With this issue, the Tekton Journal enters its tenth year of publication. It has been an incredible journey for everyone involved in its conception and running. The journal has strived to bring together so many seasoned and budding researchers to share their studies, views, reviews and opinions with the community of architecture. This
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-2/book-review/) - Many Voices, not a Monograph Tekton Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2023 pp. 72 – 75 Jinu Kurien The foreword to Biome Diaries is a conversation between Rahul Mehrotra, the founder principal of RMA Architects and the designer and historian, Ishita Shah, who brings the diaries together as its curator. The conversation reflects on Biome’s
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-2/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi The processes of Urban Planning in our country are found at variance with the lived experiences of the city dwellers, their cultural predilections, and also their hard-pressed needs. One of the reasons is that Urban Planning is a top down, zoomed out approach of map-making and drawing lines, driven by deterministic ideas that
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-1/book-review/) - Urban Kaleidoscope Tekton Volume 11, Issue 1, July 2024 pp. 50 – 52 Aruna Sri Reddi Cities are glorious examples of anything an urban life offers. They are not just conglomerations for large number of people, but have been magnets for people’s aspirations, ideas, traditions and culture and technology. In his book ‘City’ the author
- [Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-2/review/) - Archives in Transition Tekton Volume 11, Issue 2, December 2024 pp. 94 – 98 Hemangi Kadu ‘Shifting Visions: Teaching Modern Art at the Bombay School’ is a compelling exhibition exploring the early years of Mumbai’s Sir J.J. School of Art, Architecture and Design. Curated with sensitivity and scholarly rigor, the exhibition is not merely a
- [Editorial](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-2/editorial/) - Smita Dalvi How often within an internal discourse, does our fraternity of architects involve other stakeholders and players involved in creation of the buildings? The idea of authorship in artistic creation is undoubtedly crucial and yet fraught. The master artists of renaissance were never alone in creating their masterpieces, there were always apprentices who helped
- [The Enacted Landscape of Vrindavan](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-2/papers-essays/the-enacted-landscape-of-vrindavan/) - Amita Sinha and Smriti Dhariwal Tekton Tekton: Volume 11, Issue 2, December 2024 pp. 70 – 83 Amita Sinha is the author of Cultural Landscapes of India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) that won the 2022 J.B. Jackson Book Award and Landscapes of India: Forms and Meanings (University Press of Colorado,
- [A Palace for People: Exploring the Role of People’s Emotions in the Adaptive Reuse of Mubarak Mandi Palace of Jammu](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-2/papers-essays/a-palace-for-people-exploring-the-role-of-peoples-emotions-in-the-adaptive-reuse-of-mubarak-mandi-palace-of-jammu/) - Kanisha Mahajan, Kavita Pradhan Tekton Tekton: Volume 11, Issue 2, December 2024 pp. 54 – 69 Kanisha Mahajan graduated from the Space Design discipline of the School of Design at Anant National University, Ahmedabad in 2024. She is from Jammu and have watched the change in Mubarak Mandi Palace complex. Her undergraduate thesis was focused
- [Architectural Heritage as Filming Location: View from Literature](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-2/papers-essays/architectural-heritage-as-filming-location-view-from-literature/) - Tejashree Lakras Tekton Tekton: Volume 11, Issue 2, December 2024 pp. 24 – 52 Tejashree Lakras is a Heritage Conservation Architect and a Bollywood fan at heart. She is currently working on the intersection of Films, Architectural Heritage, and their audiences in her PhD research under Dr. Pushkar Sohoni at IISER, Pune. She was associated
- [Architectural Authorship as Process: The Work of Mona Pinto, Golconde’s Building Manager](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-2/papers-essays/architectural-authorship-as-process-the-work-of-mona-pinto-golcondes-building-manager/) - Lili Boenigk Tekton Tekton: Volume 11, Issue 2, December 2024 pp. 08 – 23 Lili Boenigk is a graduate student in the department of Building Technology at MIT. Her research explores the way in which social networks intertwine with material culture to facilitate material reuse and build collective material imaginaries. She is also interested in
- [Volume 10, Issue 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-10-issue-1/contents/)
- [Volume 11, Issue 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-1/contents/)
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- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-1/papers-essays/mooving-along-following-cows-in-changing-indian-cities/) - Editorial Smita Dalvi MOOving Along: Following Cows in Changing Indian Cities Rebecca Hui Inclusive Cities: Towards Gender-Sensitive Urban India Sudnya Mahimkar and V. A. Gokhale Resilient Slums: Role of Social Capital Deepika Andavarapu and Mahyar Arefi Expressions of Modernity: Semiotic Isotopy on Bombay’s Backbay Reclamation Buildings Mustansir Dalvi Writing the City – Shaping its Conscience
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- [Volume 11, Issue 2](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-2/contents/)
- [Papers and Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-1/papers-and-essays/rejuvenating-ganga-challenges-and-opportunities-in-institutions-technologies-and-governance/) - Editorial Smita Dalvi Papers & Essays Rejuvenating Ganga: Challenges and Opportunities in Institutions, Technologies and Governance Kelly D. Alley State of the Profession: An Overview A. G. Krishna Menon Charting a Future Building Culture Suprio Bhattacharjee Golconde: India’s First Modern Building Smita Dalvi Practice The Challenges of Running a Structural Engineering Practice Alpa Sheth Dialogue
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- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-2-issue-2/papers-essays/accommodating-an-urban-species/) - Editorial Smita Dalvi Papers & Essays Accommodating an Urban Species Patrick Lamson-Hall Looking Backward from Today's Cities: A Take on Bellamy's Urban Utopia Kanak Tiwari and Zeeshan Ibrar Path and Place in Sacred Landscape: An Architectural Expression of Tuljapur's Pilgrimage Tejashree Lakras Design Paradigms and their Impact on Education Amita Sinha Practice Iterations and Evolution:
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- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-3-issue-2/papers-essays/the-water-conserving-syntax-a-rationale-for-sustainable-urban-performance/) - Editorial Smita Dalvi Papers & Essays The Water Conserving Syntax: A Rationale for Sustainable Urban Performance Rahul Paul and Mohan Rao Claiming the Riverfront: Building the Prinsep Ghat in Colonial Calcutta Swati Chattopadhyay Dwarka Lost and Reclaimed: Planning for a Resilient Landscape Heena Gajjar and Amita Sinha The Satras of Majuli on the Brahmaputra Vikram
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- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-2/papers-essays/architectural-education-and-practice-in-nigeria/) - EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi PAPERS & ESSAYS Architectural Education and Practice in Nigeria Kingsley O. Dimuna Geometry in Architectural Education Sushama Joglekar Death and Life on the Varanasi Ghats Amita Sinha Cultivating Landspace: Salt Farming in the Little Rann of Kutch Gunali Ajgaonkar PRACTICE Sound Thinking: Practice of Acoustics Rolins Thomas Roy Dialogue Engaging with Critical
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- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-4-issue-1/papers-essays/coping-strategies-for-crowded-environments-case-of-public-transport-systems-in-delhi/) - EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi PAPERS & ESSAYS Coping Strategies for Crowded Environments: Case of Public Transport Systems in Delhi Nishita Mohta, Karishma Sehgal, Shamita Chaudhry, Tanvi Goel Crafting an Aesthetic for Habitats Matias Echanove, Rahul Srivastava In-situ Redevelopment for Slum Rehabilitation in Kolkata Shreyonti Chakraborty, Shivashish Bose Impact of Gating on Neighbourhood Street Pattern in Gurgaon
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- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/book-review/tribute-to-auroville-pioneers/)
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-1/papers-essays/green-building-rating-systems-a-comparative-analysis/) - EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi PAPERS & ESSAYS Green Building Rating Systems: A Comparative Analysis Supriya Nene Ecological Impact of Urban Development: Lakes of Bengaluru Chandrakanth K. Authoring Design Studios Meghal Arya ‘This New Architecture’: Contemporary Voices on Bombay’s Architecture Before the Nation State Mustansir Dalvi The Politics of Acknowledgement: Exploding the Male Architectural Canon Nancy Adajania
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- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/papers-essays/bow-barracks-the-identity-of-anglo-indians-in-kolkata-fight-for-survival/)
- [Book Review](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/book-review/phenomenology-in-architecture/)
- [Volume 6, Issue 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-6-issue-1/contents/)
- [Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/practice/research-in-architecture-in-india/)
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-5-issue-2/papers-essays/master-planned-mixed-use-lessons-from-delhi/) - EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi PAPERS & ESSAYS Master Planned Mixed-Use: Lessons from DelhiManu Mahajan Small Parks and their Communities: Ethnographies of the Public RealmAmita Sinha Wall Morphology in Historic Buildings in PondicherryHareesh Haridasan and Arun Menon Architecture as Social History: Jewish Heritage in Bombay and the KonkanSmita Dalvi PRACTICE Research in Architecture in IndiaMadhavi Desai Conservation
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- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-2/papers-essays/the-landscape-of-lawn/)
- [Volume 7, Issue 2](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-2/contents/)
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-1/papers-essays/natural-ventilation-as-a-key-airborne-infection-control-measure-for-tuberculosis-care-facilities-a-review/)
- [Volume 7, Issue 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-7-issue-1/contents/)
- [Volume 9, Issue 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-1/contents/)
- [Volume 9, Issue 2](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-9-issue-2/contents/)
- [Volume 8, Issue 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-8-issue-1/contents/)
- [Volume 1, Issue 1](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/contents/) - From the Desk of the Patron Dr. K.M. Vasudevan Pillai From the Desk of the Principal, PiCA Dr. Arif N. Merchant Editorial Smita Dalvi Contents and Abstracts of Papers & Essays Spatialising Leisure: Colonial Punjab’s Public Parks as a Paradigm of Modernity Jyoti Pandey Sharma PDF Architectural History in India: A Post-Colonial Perspective Amita Sinha
- [Papers & Essays](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-11-issue-1/papers-essays/) - Locating Liminality in the Urban: Emergence Between the Planned and Lived [pp. 8 – 21] Arpita Dayal and Leon Morenas Circus Training Schools in India: Current Scenario and Challenges [pp. 22 – 32] Maria Ujjainwala and Mustansir Dalvi The Architectural Object as the Vanity of History [pp. 34 – 38] Kaiwan Mehta
- [Abstract of Dialogue](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/abstract-of-dialogue/rahul-mehrotra-in-conversation-with-mustansir-dalvi-mustansir-dalvi/)
- [Absract of Practice](https://tekton.mes.ac.in/issues/volume-1-issue-1/absract-of-practice/anupama-kundoo/)