Mariaakhtar

The year 2020 has been like a ferocious roller coaster ride for the whole world. The ongoing pandemic has challenged the conventional notions of living, working and celebrating. People are confined within four walls, working from home, learning on google classroom and celebrating birthdays on zoom. We are compelled to look for resources online rather than visit libraries; often helplessly juggling between the Infinite list of books and endless tabs on the computer. This blog is a small initiative to bridge this gap by providing architecture book reviews, hacks and cheat sheets to the student and professionals of the community. I am an architect by profession, inclined towards research and an artist at heart. I have completed my B-Arch from VNIT, Nagpur in 2014 and M-Arch from SMMCA, Nagpur in 2017. Currently, I am working as a Research associate at Innovature Research and design studio, Bangalore. I have also served as Assistant Professor at Dayananda Sagar College of Architecture, Bangalore for 2.5 years. My research interest lies in the study of the meaning of form in historic buildings, oral history and man-environment interaction.