ideas draft 01
Essentially the premise of the task is to collate an idea group on issues that have staged a presence in the mindscape of things. Started first with platforms and their respective templates from which content is requested to be submitted the introductory collection will see the picking up of thoughts from then the act of writing was considered a part of discussions to the requisite need to engage constantly on issues at hand and finding methods to lay them out. Text is then used to build or argue positions instead of diagrammatic positions. Negotiations are hence a discussion to be held. The list is primarily inspired with notions of non-linear generation initiated with parameters available at medium. Instead of a dated list the platform is an encouragement to randomness and necessarily doesn’t stress out submission at a timely basis. Collections adds to this stochastic enterprise in grouping your ideas or positioning them in other collections. As a result we now ideas in three boxes of sorts. from Architecture is school and design notes, Mumbai Cutting orders thoughts on urbanism/ the city and other things are found interests. With being able to acquire from other idea discussants the platform thus contextualises engagement in a larger body of work. svbtle flips this to a quasi linear display of ideas with no adequate ordering other than the time of publishing, that too a discreet endeavour. In pursuit of that rhythmic exercise of production the first draft brings together a group of possibilities to find itself processed within this perceived framework.
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picture books, of buildings _ The first day of architecture school, where one is shown around the space that is to be considered as the build form. Art of architectural production.
revisiting a project 02, mumbai museum _ Final year thesis project addressing the issue of documenting the city. An extract from the original text.
revisiting a project 01, house for the malhotra family _ Second design project in architecture school interpreted by given conditions.
exhibition research, omg bkc _ Compiled references for a collaborative exhibition about reimagining urban areas. Towards an informal presentation the brief was in staging methods to display urban spaces.
cultural precincts, as built by institutions _ Working preface and introduction to a research on areas of cultural significance.
publishing architecture, a list _ Documenting the shift in architectural design publications and its areas of inquiry.
mail 01, publication collab _ to Aravind
mail 02, research collab _ to Archis
post on starting day _ A new space for the display of ideas, svbtle encourages to envisage a directive of sorts on content production and dissemination. m(edium)s(vbtle)t(umblr)t(witter) views.
historiography _ Staging a history of Bandra Kurla Complex with information extrapolated from planning revisions.
editing discrepancies _ Compiling the premise and two conflicting versions of a city manifesto, an outcome of a celebratory conference.
5000 followings _ reverse-engineering the concept of twitter to follow the maximum number of accounts and observing the outcome.
1500 words on an archive _ Data/Knowledge/City or the forward to a model of a city information collection. As an introduction the text makes case for type or a grammar of content assembled which creates Mumbai or a position for city representation.
cultural building type _ In pursuit of a definition of the building type Archdaily tag for the year of 2013 is analysed.
planning for mumbai, a synopsis _ With the cities development plan being brought out to its third iteration, its mandated to an extend for it to be tracked. Thus between agencies of interest till position of implementation a roadmap to observe the process is staged.
city guidebooks _ Cataloging a collection of documents on the city.
reading urbanism _ Notes from a job in publication of city literature as formulated by the processes of its production from inception of an issue to final release and distribution.
an urban resource centre_ How is an online version of a physical information repository to be structured and then opened out for public contribution and further participation?
neighbourhood festivals _ A note on festivals in the city with a case study of Bandra festival and its associated institutions and organisations that make the event possible.
walking in a village _ Urban villages find themselves nestled and jostling for space in the city fabric. The text summaries a study in conservation of heritage precincts in Chembur.
conundrums of a business district _ Study of the special planning area of Bandra Kurla Complex in conjunction to its imagination both in public folklore and the planning agency overlooking its implementation.
design research _ What is it? How does one go about doing it?
city architect bloggers _ Curated list of popular blogs by architects either educated in the city program or working in the city.
machimach style guide _ On its fourth iteration the design portfolio has been a project in itself. Distributed across the internet there is a stream of produced or curated content associated with the domain.
method of a review _ How can one construct a formal method for observing a building towards an informative description and critique of a build form by another architect?
database curation _ Indian design database as assembled with found projects/ objects/ images/ artifacts from existing popular platforms for architecture, art, design and photography.
politics of recognition _ Observation on the Pritzker Prize.
fringe architecture _ Representation, Practise and Recognition three conditions to have played a prominent role on how the profession has consumed within itself and to the world at large.
inventing the famous architect _ An answer to the question when does an architect achieve fame? What are the conditions to cater to for an architect to be relevant to the community of professionals.
city architects 01 _ To catalogue a list of 100 practising city architects and firms to have been based off from the city and with respect to the type of work executed.
contemporary vernacularists _ The only contemporary Indian architectural style has its generation of practitioners signing out of their engagements. The act is of observation of how work is transitioned or wound down.
the critique of rahul _ On problems of being inspired by RMA and the significance of Panvel School of Design.
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Exercise in documentation this is part vision plan and part a motivational exercise to succinctly frame in passing topics one has come across during various conversations and enforced engagements. The goal is to complete all the texts with a dedicated focus but with requirements of importance of ideas as per circumstance the list is most likely to transform over the course of its elaboration. Though all notes have been laid out, concepts could be added or taken down. Issues all to be noted at the second draft.