ARCHI TIMES - November 2011 Issue

Thaap conference held on portrait of Lahore

THAAP two day International Conference titled 'Portrait of Lahore - The Capital City of the Punjab' started on the11th November and continued on 12thof November 2011. Scholars and Delegates from UK, Sweden, USA, India, Iran, Belgium and Germany presented papers along with the scholars and historians from Continued...

A talk on "How Architectural firms Succeed?"

Institute of Architects, Pakistan Lahore Chapter with its Executive Committee and Chairman Ar. Azhar N. Syed and Convener Ar. Maliha S. Vahla has organized the Monthly Lecture Series Program for the year 2011 and 2012. The first lecture of the series was successfully held at Alhamra Arts Council. A talk by Continued...

Architect Rafiq Azam interviewed with ARCHI TIMES

Renowned Bangladeshi architect Rafiq Azam graduated from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1989 and shot to fame after he renovated his family house. Since then he has won numerous awards, such as the IAB Design Award 1996 awarded by the Institute of Architects Bangladesh; The 2007 Continued...

Hotel Architecture

The 'Hotel Industry' in India which experienced its first growth in demand in 1990's, today is one of the fastest growing and most favourable industry in the country. Having undergone various transformations, the concept of hotels in India has witnessed an array of prolific heritage hotels, luxury hotels and resorts to Continued...

A young Pakistani architect won best thesis award

The Indian Institute of Architects (IIA), Chandigarh-Punjab Chapter organized "Young Architects Festival" from 14-16 October, 2011 at Chandigarh. This national event of IIA was organized for the first-time in Chandigarh. About 750 architects, urban planners, interior designers and students of these professions from Continued...

Historiography of Architecture of Pakistan and the Region

Architecture, without a philosophical base, is a rudderless ship. A credible philosophical base can only emerge through a dispassionate and objective study of history; historiography thus becomes the key to any meaningful discussion on trends of architecture in Pakistan, a country that emerged out of the partition of the British Colonial subcontinent, laden with the biases, prejudices, divisions, confusions and the smothering effect of an autocratic system. The colonial rule did bring some fruits of technology to the subcontinent such as the railways, codified law, a west-based watered down education system, English as the official, hence dominant, language, a culture of the elite that looked to the west and understood progress only in terms of industrialization and therefore westernization, fitting perfectly with the post- colonial road map laid out by the ex-rulers and the developed countries. Continued...