isaac mathew

architecture. curation. urbanism.

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state review 06 - does architecture matter?

By 2050, India’s cities will be home to 850 million people or 40 per cent of its population. But how will they be housed and what role will architects play in planning emerging urban landscapes? In Mumbai, an exhibition titled the State of Architecture, Practices and Processes in India explores these issues while tracing the history of the profession since 1947.


this video is archived as part of a project assembling various documents produced during and as a reaction to the Exhibition titled THE STATE OF ARCHITECTURE, PRACTICES & PROCESSES IN INDIA | 6 JANUARY - 20 MARCH, 2016, NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, MUMBAI

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1-1 sept 10-sept 23 2004 timeout mumbai pagination

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  1. Mumbai Local - 4+1 = 5
  2. Feature Flowers = 4
  3. Interview Makrand = 3
  4. Consume (10p + 1 Gad + 2 Travel + 1 Wellness + 1 ½ Shoptalk) = 6 ½
  5. F&D = 4
  6. Art = 3
  7. Book = 3
  8. Dance = 2
  9. Film = 7
  10. Kids = 2
  11. Music = 3
  12. Out & About = 2+3
  13. Nightlife = 4
  14. Sport = 3
  15. Theatre = 5
  16. Photo essay = 3
  17. Time In = 1
  18. Television = 6
  19. Radio/net = 1
  20. Offers = 1
  21. Last Word = 1

Total = 68 – 70 pgs.


Issue 1, Vol. 1,
Dated 08/09/2004

Paprika Media Pvt. Ltd.
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Mumbai 400 034

EDITORIAL
Editor: Naresh Fernandes
Deputy Editor: Nandini Ramnath
Film: Nandini Ramnath
Theatre: Subuhi Jiwani
Nightlife & Music: Che Kurrien
Out And About & Sport: Chetna Mahadik
Time In: Candida Moraes
Consume & Dance: Divia Thani-Daswani
Kids: Gouri Umashankar
Copy Editor: Candida Moraes
Editorial Intern: Tara Kapur

ART
Art Director: Rishita Patel
Designers: Anita Patel, Payal Sumaya
Digital Imaging

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state review 05 _ the state of ambivalence: reflections on the state of architecture exhibition at the national gallery of modern art, mumbai

Hussain Indorewala | Urbanisation Vol 1, Issue 2, pp. 195 - 198 | First Published December 29, 2016 | 10.1177/2455747116677388

In choosing Mumbai as its venue, the State of Architecture (SOA) exhibition perhaps paid a belated tribute to the city. Bombay was the city where the Indian capitalist class first emerged. Industrial wealth in the post-independence period was ensured by state protection and subsidisation, and later by monopoly licenses bought by extending a helping hand to the political class (Khilnani, 2004). This close relationship was soon to become an important fount for art patronage and support. Mumbai would supply the institutions, the fora and the associations where new expressions and ideas were sought for a promising post-colonial experiment. New monuments and cities were to be erected. A nation was to be built.

Structured along a timeline as ‘phases’ between three

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upcoming elections and our demands

Hamara Shehar Mumbai Abhiyaan calls for a meeting to discuss the upcoming elections and our demands as a campaign on 20th January 2017 at 4.30 pm at M ward project office TISS Deonar.

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going places with spatial analysis

spatial data = data with a geographical component connected to some place on the earth
geo-coding = the process of finding a geographic location based on other information, like a street address
gi science = science of dealing with spatial data and spatial issues
spatial interaction = measurement of movement of phenomena, such as the flow of goods, people, or information from place to place
spatial analysis allows us to solve complex problems and better understand what is happening in the world and where
analysis = the systematic examination of a problem to provide new information for what’s already known
geographic information system = the tool we use to capture, store, process, analyse, and visualize visualize spatial information
raster data = real world entities are represented as regular grids, like digital photographs
vector data = real world entities are represented as features

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dear isaac mathew

Thank you very much for your interest in the Azim Premji University Research Grants Program. We received several hundred applications, many of which were of a very high quality. Our budgetary constraints make the hardest part of this process the need to turn down many high quality proposals that we have received.

Unfortunately, we are unable to fund your proposal titled “MUMBAIOPENDATA.org/PROJECTS (01/ Governing Institutions in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, 02/ Mumbai Development Plan Catalogue)” at this time. Due to the high volume of requests, we regret that we cannot provide detailed reviewer comments to each proposal. As our program expands we hope to be able to support more projects and hope that you will consider the grants program again in future rounds.

Regards,
The Research Grants Team

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annexure 02 - planning by the people, the colombian urban experience

 by ARAVIND UNNI

Colombia’s social urbanism and inclusive transportation projects have left a lasting impression on urban planning in the global south. The author explains how urban planning got democratised in Colombia and why India is still far behind.

This article emerges from a two-week long workshop in Colombia held in July 2014. The workshop was aimed at preparing guidelines for a territorial plan for the inter-municipal association of G11 in Colombia.1 The event was hosted by Les Ateliers, with active support from the 11 municipalities in the south of the Valle del Cauca, and led by the mayor of Cali city (Santiago de Cali). The workshop was expected to come up with a regional plan (guidelines) for an area of 11,000 sq km to improve the economic, social and environmental aspects of the relatively backward south Colombian region of G11. Such a voluntary coalition of 11

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annexure 01 - rehabilitation of cinema theatres in post-industrial mumbai

 by PANKAJ JOSHI

With the decline of the textile mills and their eventual closure, the manufacturing industry shifted out of the city, followed by a huge expansion of the service industry. This shift is predominantly visible in forms of consumption as well as forms of the corresponding built fabric. This changed the way Mumbai functions now as opposed to the pre-1990’s phase. This change is not a static long-term phenomenon but a transitionary city phase where a predominantly industrial/ manufacturing city evolves into a post-industrial service hub and continues to morph from the predominant finance function to a hybrid mix of financial services, informal/ formal services and cultural industry economy of media and film, advertising, printing and its myriad different forms. 

This shift is also seen very evidently in the public culture and imagination of the city with its direct impact

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predcr & tad file list draft 01

architects can now log on for a perfect plan, toi sep 8, 2008 - news article _ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Architects-can-now-log-on-for-a-perfect-plan/articleshow/3457171.cms
autodcr (building plan approval system) - presentation _ http://www.slideshare.net/SoftTechWeb2/autodcr-building-plan-approval-system
autodcr mcgm casestudy.pdf - casestudy         
helpmanual.pdf - autodcr website help  
IMC_predcr_part1.swf - training video [imc edition]         
IMC_predcr_part2.swf - training video [imc edition]   
Indore Municipal Corporation - city specific iteration of predcr _ http://182.18.181.230:8081/BPAMSClient/DefaultNew.aspx
predcr diagrams.pdf - installation files [mcgm edition]     
predcr help manual.pdf - installation files [mcgm edition]
PreDCR_Sample_drawings.zip - imc edition         
PreDCR™_short.pptx - promotion material       
Utility_Help_Manual.pdf -

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mumbaibim archive draft 01

synopsis
preliminary background research to work on 
tad designer lite by sabu francis associates

predcr by softtech engineers pvt. ltd
working title/s - [mumbai cad industry/ bombay computational design/ representation, culture, architecture]
http://www.sabufrancis.com/tangent/tad
http://www.sabufrancis.com/
http://www.softtech-engr.com/offerings/for-government-organizations-large-infrastructure-players/predcr/
http://www.softtech-engr.com/
http://www.softtech-engr.com/profile/customers/
at the advent of computerization in the country, around late ‘90’s within the construction industry the need was felt and promoted for the institution to move, for that matter adapt to the new technology. an early implementation of opensource systems to its commercial variant two companies of sorts have been the pioneers in spreading the gospel and to a degree implementing ideas of operating the

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