Global Warming & Climate Change affecting Chennai and other Indian Cities based on the Climate Central Report.

Talk by Benny Kuriakose at Spaces, Kerala Architecture Festival, Trivandrum, 30th August, 2019.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima visited the Mattancherry Palace in Kochi which is in the tentative list of World Heritage List. First time seeing the King who is in power.

There was a brief function at the Palace where Conservation Architect Paul Meurs, Pro...

Yesterday, we visited the few sites of Alappuzha Heritage Project. In the evening we had discussion on the technology used in museums along with Nowshad Padiyath and Joy Sebastian

6th October, is the birthday of Dashrath Patel, whom I would like to call as the Father of Indian Design, a man who never got the recognition he deserved. He was a designer, sculptor, painter, photographer, the founder director of National Institute of Design, Ahmedaba...

Gave a talk in Coimbatore Karpagam School of Architecture, IIT Bombay, in a conference at Chatrapathy Sivaji Museum in Mumbai and at an international tourism conference in KITTS, Thiruvananthapuram.

One of the questions I ask in many of my talks in architecture schools is “How long will our concrete roofed buildings last”. Most of the people say 50, 60 , 80 or maximum 100 years. If they last only that much, then why should we design them? How are they sustainable?...

This is a resort which I have designed few years ago and there are some nice photos in the album which is posted by Fen Jacob Kadamapuzha. One of the beautiful spots in Kerala and it is very relaxing. A very sustainable building using local stone (not quarried) which w...