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We, as a group of three have been working on Cultural associations of Museums, Art gallerries and Theatres in the Bari Gothic and Rawal area. We are presenting our this week’s collaborative effort of collecting, compiling and documenting the information in these fields.  Team: Uday, Vasco, Advait

Find the instruction manual here digi-fab-assignment1.pdf

This post delves with some issues regarding Architecture in a global cultural scenario. Globalization has undoubtedly reached every corner of our lives,  Architecture is no exception. Time and again Architecture has been the reflection or expression of our culture, in a way it does speak about a particular culture. As Frank Gehry says” Architecture should speak of its time and space, but yearn for timelessness”. But the issue here that I want to discuss is ” Should Architecture be a reflection of just the local culture or just the global culturein order to become a global identity”.

To consider the architecture of Airport terminals, it  becomes important at the first place to become a global identity in order to address to the internation participators. But applying this logic only would give a monotonous identity to all terminals. On a other hand, looking at these terminals, one might really wonder whether he is in Hong Kong, Amsterdam or New York? In a way the building faces a local cultural identity crisis. 

This is a less fascinating result of globalization.

After all, it is the Great Wall, the gardens and pagodas that represent a Chinese character; it is the Persepolis, the Palace of Darius the Great, the mosques and minarets that showcase the Iranian culture; and it is the palaces, castles and churches that remind people of Western history.
I believe, architecture today should be more than just being modern (post modern)  or just be a product of the digital age. It should contain some cultural interpretation too.

Design of a tree” project aims at designing a arboreal structure based on a research methodology developed by understanding a natural dynamic structure (a tree). As a part of its first phase that emphasizes on the observation of the tree, the following aspects have been tried to cover.

Here is the link for the Mapping Group 05 uploadings.

http://www.iaacblog.com/hemantpurohit/?p=4

http://global-culture.org

This is a blog that provides a platform to discuss issues on Globalization, Migration and their impact on the Global Culture. To analyse thses issues it becomes important to understand the city from all aspects of cultural behaviour. Global culture can be defined as  being able to experience someone’s  own cultural heritage in the context of a foreign community. This platform aims to establish the mechanisms for different communities to exchange valuable information about their lifestyles in such a way that they enrich themselves by adapting those practices they lack. Out of the recent posts in this blog, one delas withaf liveability ranking of cities considering the the categories: Stability; Healthcare; Culture & Environment; Education; and Infrastructure. Technologies should allow global citizens to tap the true power of the web to express their culture and in the process redefine the mechanisms by which travellers immerse themselves in local cultures, facilitating the spread of cosmopolitanism.

http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com

This is a blog space initiated by an economist to discuss issues related to Environment and Urban Economics. This blog has got the potential to become very resourceful in the process of developing our urban strategy keeping in mind the larger context of our very environment.

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