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Clutter to Cozy: Shoe Rack DIY
Quicky and easy, no drill shoe rack upgrade!
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Jul 25, 20244 min read
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The First DIY Adventure: The IKEA Billy Hack!
This easy IKEA Billy hack is a no saw, no power tools tutorial, great for beginner DIY-ers.
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Jul 9, 20245 min read
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Tête-à-tête With Clients
It’s a semester like no other that’s characterised by endless Zoom, hours rooted to a single chair and learning how to have a social life...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Nov 1, 20203 min read
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Meme Life
If you've been on social media long enough, you know what memes are. If you're an architect who's been on social media long enough, you...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Aug 24, 20202 min read
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My Top 5 Film Worlds
Films inherently offer an alternate version of reality to us, holding within its reel the could've-been's and the should've been's....
Tejashrii Shankarraman
May 2, 20203 min read
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A Lucrative Business
In my spare time, I love watching interviews. I love hearing about people's opinions, thoughts and ideas and if there's a seasoned...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Apr 15, 20202 min read
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Why every architect SHOULD read the Fountainhead
”Hi, it‘s nice to meet you.” “Hey, yes, you too. What do you do ?” “I‘m studying to be an architect.” “Oh, that’s so interesting.. Have...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Apr 13, 20202 min read
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My Top 10 Mani-Ratnam+Architecture Moments
Hello hello ! For those of you who don't know this about me, I am a huge Mani Ratnam fan. I think the man makes visual poetry on screen,...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Apr 1, 20202 min read
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Scroll Culture
This is the beginning of Week 3 of 'Work from Home' and I do not have any more excuses to give myself on why I haven't blogged. So here I...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Mar 28, 20203 min read
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Time Warp
It's been a revelatory week here in school, which obviously means its time for a blog post. In my past few months here at the school and...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Feb 6, 20202 min read
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A new decade
A new year and a new decade brings with it the promise and hope of a ‘better’ tomorrow. Resolutions are often our actions towards these...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Jan 8, 20202 min read
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Practice and practice
The schism between academia and practice is an often revisited topic. Conversations invariably circle back to the idea that they are two...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Nov 20, 20192 min read
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Skyscrapers
Hello and welcome back after a long period of dormancy. Huge cultural shifts on the personal front (I’ve moved across the world for...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Oct 5, 20193 min read
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What Singapore gets right.
So I recently went on a trip to Singapore (where my parents lived when they first got married) and we went on a nostalgia trip one...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Jul 19, 20193 min read
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Spectrum
Recently I read an interview of an actor in the newspaper, where he described himself as a method actor with spontaneity. Actors are...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Jun 24, 20192 min read
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Grey matter
Yesterday at work, we viewed a project through various lenses – the architect, user, the developer and the government, namely. As we...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Dec 9, 20182 min read
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Demystifying Stars
A couple of years ago, I had written an interpretation of Atmospheres by Zumthor. What started out as a book review eventually turned...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Sep 23, 20182 min read
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Just livable or beyond ?
As I was scrolling through Instagram, I came across some images of Kahn’s Exeter library and I (thankfully) asked myself why I was drawn...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Sep 14, 20182 min read
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Process
During the week, I was listening to a radio interview with a Tamil actress. She was describing how she looks at acting as a craft, one...
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Aug 28, 20182 min read
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