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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Future of Architecture.


“ Strength is born of constraints and dies in fear “.
-- Leonado da Vinci



India offers a fantastic scope to explore pushing the individuals to arrive at innovative solutions to work within limited resources. A lot of what we do may seem ordinary to outsiders. But to create something within our cities with their uncertain regulatory environment, zillion bureaucratic hassles and other standard real estate exigencies is in itself is a miracle. Design and architecture should be for a cause – for people.



Whatever design is been designed is not unique, i.e. nothing new is created. Whatever is coming up has derived its inspiration from some creation of the past. For e.g.: wood and stone was used in architecture from ancient era, not only because everyone loved them but more because it was available resource then, but also because there is a comfort attached to that material. The usage of material gradually changed to brick and concrete and now glass has come into perspective. Every time a new material comes, the older generation definitely looks at it with skepticism. But the past is the main guide to the future. We always apply principles from the past because these principles would always stay to guide us to create the right future.


Thus we can say that presently the challenge for the present generation of architects is to use new technologies and new design concepts in shaping up the buildings and cities that gives the people a sense of comfort, and aesthetic delight with a background of serenity. We have to chose either humanistic architecture or improve architecture; either coherent civilization with serene environment or chaos. We can no longer ignore them for a deal of ideal perfection.




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