Benny Kuriakose2 days agoIs the Relevance of Laurie Baker Buildings Over?Is Baker’s technology outdated? This post talks about the for and against arguments made on Laurie Baker Buildings and what we can learn.
Benny KuriakoseJun 29DO YOU NEED AN ARCHITECT To Design Your Home?Do you need an architect? What is his role? You know best about your requirements for the new house you are going to build.
Benny KuriakoseFeb 7CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT CSMVS, MUMBAIA very contemporary building designed by RMA Architects in the same compound as the historic Prince of Wales Museum
Benny KuriakoseJan 28NIZAMUDDIN URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE BY AGA KHAN DEVELOPMENT NETWORKI had a chance to visit the works being carried out by AKDN in Nizamuddin Area. Many historic buildings such as the Chausath Khambah etc.
Benny KuriakoseNov 21, 2019VISIT TO TRADITIONAL BOAT MAKING PLACES IN AZHEEKAL AND BEYPOREWent to places where the boats are made in a traditional way along with Rubin DCruz and Nowshad Padiyath as part of setting up the Alappu...
Benny KuriakoseOct 31, 2019CHENNAI AND OTHER CITIES AFFECTED BY SEA LEVEL RISE BY 2050Global Warming & Climate Change affecting Chennai and other Indian Cities based on the Climate Central Report.
Benny KuriakoseOct 6, 2019FLAT ROOF SCANDALOne 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...
Benny KuriakoseAug 2, 2019Benny Kuriakose WEBSITEI have not been very active in social media for the last one or two years. Our website www.bennykuriakose.com has not been updated with a...
Benny KuriakoseAug 12, 2018MESSAGE FROM AN UNEMPLOYED ARCHITECTThe youngsters are not finding jobs or not able to stand on their own, even in a country when not even 5% of the buildings are designed b...
Benny KuriakoseAug 10, 2018ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION IN INDIAI am not saying that the qualification is not important, but the way the architecture is being taught in India has many drawbacks. Lookin...
Benny KuriakoseMar 19, 2018MANNAR BELL METAL CRAFTThere is a Government Proposal to make Mannar, one of the centres of bell metal crafts, into a heritage village. I made an initial visit ...
Benny KuriakoseMar 9, 2018PRITZKER PRIZE WINNER - BALAKRISHNA DOSHICongrats to Sri Doshi. It is coming for the first time to India and should have been at least ten years ago. I am glad that one more arch...
Benny KuriakoseMay 21, 2017FIELDWORK IN ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOLSThe practical exposure in the five year architecture course in India is much less. Two decades ago, there was no internship or even preparin
Benny KuriakoseJan 5, 2017HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017The following are my resolutions for 2017. *To do more high quality projects than the ones I have been doing for the last five years.
Benny KuriakoseDec 27, 2016PECHCHU KACHCHERI 2016During the last weekend, I listened to most of the lectures in the Pechchu Kachcheri on Mahabalipuram organised by Tamil Heritage Trust.
Benny KuriakoseDec 24, 2016INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS IN INDIAI was having a discussion with Sekar James, the landscape architect (https://www.masterplanlandscapes.com/main.html), who have worked with f
Benny KuriakoseOct 11, 2016ARCHITECTURE IN OUR CITIESThe architects should realise that the general public hate many of the buildings that come up in the city. The public use words such as '...
Benny KuriakoseApr 25, 2016QUALITY OF ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION IN INDIAWith so many architecture schools, without proper training, the quality of the candidates are becoming lower over the years.
Benny KuriakoseMar 2, 2016MUZIRIS HERITAGE PROJECT INAUGURATIONSome have mentioned in the comments on my earlier posting on the inauguration of the Muziris Project that my name was not mentioned in any o
Benny KuriakoseJul 24, 2015EVERYONE SHOULD DO RESEARCHYesterday was the convocation day in IIT Madras. I received my doctor of philosophy degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
