A Successful completion of Atelier04. One of the most beautiful places we have ever visited with a wonderful group.“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta #2017 #Japan #Travel #architecture #Atelier #GroundResearch

Atelier 04 is scheduled between June 17-25, 2017. The proposed architectural tour is open to professionals, academicians and students of architecture, art and design background. The tour starts from Tokyo followed by Yokohama, Kyoto and Osaka. The tour covers works of Japanese architects Tadao Ando, SANAA, Kenzo Tange, Kengo Kuma, Fumihiko Maki to name a few. The itinerary also covers works of international architects like Renzo Piano, Le Corbusier, FOA and Cesar Pelli. Apart

Shantesh Kelvekar's paper titled "Water Beyond its Objective Realm" was shortlisted and published as part of ISOLA Conference - 2016. The paper in alignment with the conference's theme - Water & Society, touched upon the notion of water in Indian culture ranging from rituals and traditional practices to its interpretation in art forms and movies. #ISOLA #shanteshkelvekar #Conference #Paper #Publication #WaterSociety #India #GroundResearch #ReadingGrounds

Students of BMSCE in collaboration with Indian Society of Landscape Architects came together to work together between October, 2015 and January, 2016. BMSCE facilitated the initiative of ISOLA. Dealing with the issue of Water & Society, the students addressed the present condition of Vrishabhavati River in Bangalore. Shantesh Kelvekar, then as faculty of history and design at BMSCE, assisted and mentored the students along with Mohan Rao, Rahul Paul, Aditi and Sachin U. Preet

Atelier 01 Atelier 01, a Ground Research initiative was a travel workshop organised and designed for students of diverse disciplines of design from across India. The workshop started by shortlisting a group of eighteen individuals. These eighteen participants coming from various fields of designs came under one roof to work cohesively towards a larger goal of exploration of their innermost interest. Atelier 01 truly started four weeks prior to the journey itself, with student

An article titled Emergence of Landscape Urbanism by Shantesh Kelvekar was published in City Observer's maiden issue. Urban Design Collective started its e-publication to bring collective research on the subject with under the banner of City Observer in June 2015. The article highlighted the current issues and challenges in urban development across developing economies, and presented a point of view from the frame of Landscape Urbanism as a discipline to facilitate future urb

Architecture Dialect[ic] was conducted as part of the History of Architecture Studio, where students of third year architecture from BMSCE engaged in understanding and studying international practices of the lat 20th Century and 21st Century. The work of the students was published as a book and also exhibited in September, 2014. The studio was headed and coordinated by Shantesh Kelvekar. #BMSCE #ContemporaryArchitecture #HistoryofArchitecture #Studio #Students #Architecture #

"Urban Transmogrification: Necessity for Mutation of Spaces" is an article by Shantesh Kelvekar that was published in Issue 38 (Dec, 2013) of Journal of Landscape Architecture, India. Transmogrification is an act of changing the existing into a different form or appearance through a transformative process. The article emphasised on the necessity of such transformative spaces in the urban context. Citing examples of already existing such spaces, the article also highlighted th

How often do we write letters? Agreed that letters are now replaced by emails, and our text 'msg' vocabulary has either shortened words or replaced them with alphabets/ alpha-numeric set of characters. It's okay to be that in our fast paced world. But the question we raise is that does this provide us an opportunity in our lives to pause for a while and reconnect, in an old fashioned way, back to the art of writing letters. We consider writing letters as a form of art as it e

In March, 2013 Shantesh conducted a workshop for the students of architecture at the Department of Architecture, KLS GIT. The workshop dealt with addressing the pressures the fraternity faces, and is likely to face in the coming future. With a rapid development witnessed by our planet in the last five decades, and an immense amount of architecture created during that time. And, now with an anticipation of creating even more interventions in the next couple of decades than don