AN ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL

 A CITY IS NOT A TREE By Christopher Alexander   ABOUT THE AUTHOR Christopher Wolfgang Alexander (born: 4th October 1936, in Vienna, Austria) is a widely influential British-American architect, design theorist, and currently a professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. As a theorist, teacher, author, practicing architect, and builder, Alexander has taken it upon himself to question everything, from construction details and the effects of color to the process by which a global species makes and remakes its environment and, beyond, to the objective bases of beauty itself. Questions like, what is an architect? What is a good building? Should architects strive for beauty in their work? What is beauty? Christopher Alexander has explored such fundamental questions in greater depth or breadth, or with greater persistence, clarity, and originality of thought.  His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including ur

  THE POETICS OF SPACE BY: GASTON BACHELARD ABOUT THE AUTHOR At the twilight of his career, he decides to take a new approach by reflecting on literature and poetry and using imagination to explore a reality that is not subject to reasoning.  His implicitly urges architects to base their work on the experiences as it will engender rather than on abstract rationales that may or may not affect viewers and users of architecture. He also discusses psychoanalysis and the work of the psychiatrist Carl Jung. Comparing the psychoanalytic and phenomenological approaches to his subject matter, he sees merit in both, but finds the phenomenological approach preferable. He observes that imagination is a major power of human nature. He packs his text with lyrical quotations, helping the reader to imagine the house as a place sewn together from poetic images, facets and stories. THE REVIEW  A densely lyrical, almost magical book on the experience of architecture It is a non-fiction philosophical stud

   HOUSE FORM AND CULTURE BY : AMOS RAPOPORT   THE BOOK  COMPILES OF THE EFFECTS OF THE CULTURES AND THE  HOUSE FORM AND CULTURE PRESENTS CROSS- CULTURAL STUDIES OF DWELLINGS, BUILDINGS AND SETTLEMENTS WITHIN THE FIELDS OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY.  ABOUT THE AUTHOR AMOS RAPOPORT BORN ON 28 MARCH 1929, WARSAW.  AN ARCHITECT AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF ENVIRONMENT-BEHAVIOR STUDIES (EBS). HE IS THE AUTHOR OF OVER 200 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS IN THIS FIELD, INCLUDING BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING FRENCH, SPANISH, GERMAN, PERSIAN, JAPANESE, KOREAN AND CHINESE.  HE HAS HELD HONORABLE AND VISITING POSITIONS IN MANY UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE GLOBE, IS PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE. HIS WORK HAS FOCUSED MAINLY ON THE ROLE OF CULTURAL VARIABLES, CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES, AND THEORY DEVELOPMENT AND SYNTHESIS.                                 CHAPTER I : THE NATURE AND DEFINITION OF FIELD This chapter starts with intr

TEXTURES AND PATTERNS This is a short story about the experience I had during my elective in the second semester of my first year for architecture in KRVIA. It's an experience about how got to learn about an interesting aspect which is important for architecture as well has so many perspectives to it called as 'PHOTOGRAPHY'. So, this was the time around November-December when generally our winter electives are held. We do get to choose them according to our priorities and interest in the elective available. This photography elective was my second choice because first one was something related to crafts in paper. When we students as group of student met for the first time it was all different energy altogether. Then we met the elective guide who was very excited for the elective week and wouldn't enough to see what quality of work we could produce in that given time slot. He showed his and other photographers work through books, articles and ppts. The work was really gre