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ArchitectureLive!IndiaThe German Pavilion at the Kerala Literature Festival 2026, Kozhikode, Kerala by The Purple Ink Studio %POSTEXCERPT% The German Pavilion at the Kerala Literature Festival 2026, Kozhikode, Kerala by The Purple Ink Studio The German Pavilion at the Kerala Literature Festival 2026 by The Purple Ink…

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ArchitectureLive!IndiaWho needs an Architect?Rethinking what it means to practise architecture %POSTEXCERPT% Who needs an Architect? Rethinking what it means to practise architecture Janhavi Dudhane and Mahesh Bangad urge the profession to rethink the true purpose of architecture.

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ArchitectureLive!IndiaMumbai’s Leopards and the Case for Landscape-Led Design %POSTEXCERPT% Mumbai’s Leopards and the Case for Landscape-Led Design In Mumbai’s Leopards and the Case for Landscape-Led Design, Aditi Sunder Nair examines how Mumbai’s leopards navigate the city…

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ArchitectureLive!IndiaThe Holy Fort %POSTEXCERPT% The Holy Fort Exploring the spatial and historical evolution of Zamboanga’s Fort Pilar, this essay explores how a seventeenth-century coastal garrison—built as an instrument of military…

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ArchitectureLive!IndiaThe Room That Was Never Drawn: Reading the Indian Threshold Through a Shoe Rack %POSTEXCERPT% The Room That Was Never Drawn: Reading the Indian Threshold Through a Shoe Rack What happens to a building after the architect leaves?

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ArchitectureLive!IndiaAdda, Anthem, Assembly %POSTEXCERPT% Adda, Anthem, Assembly Dissent in public spaces thrives not through formal authorization, but through informal everyday encounters.

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ArchitectureLive!IndiaThe Fabricated Face: How We Are Manufacturing False Identities for our cities %POSTEXCERPT% The Fabricated Face: How We Are Manufacturing False Identities for our cities What separates one city from another when their historic streets are forced into the same visual template?

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ArchitectureLive!IndiaBetween Preservation and Life %POSTEXCERPT% Between Preservation and Life Exploring the traditional pol houses of Ahmedabad through three distinct conditions—everyday inhabitation, seasonal return, and commercial reuse—this essay…

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A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. More than a hundred sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo