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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Nov 1, 20203 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Aug 24, 20202 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Apr 15, 20202 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Apr 13, 20202 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Mar 28, 20203 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Feb 6, 20202 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Jan 8, 20202 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Nov 20, 20192 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Oct 5, 20193 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Jul 19, 20193 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Jun 24, 20192 min read
Spectrum
Recently I read an interview of an actor in the newspaper, where he described himself as a method actor with spontaneity. Actors are...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Dec 9, 20182 min read
Grey matter
Yesterday at work, we viewed a project through various lenses – the architect, user, the developer and the government, namely. As we...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Sep 23, 20182 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Sep 14, 20182 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Aug 28, 20182 min read
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...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Aug 14, 20182 min read
Graduation !
My graduation ceremony was this weekend and the occasion was a perfect prompt for an article. The first ideas for the article bordered on...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Aug 5, 20182 min read
Perspectives
We live in a pluralistic world – so many opinions, voices and ideas that run parallely and against each other. Pluralism is what adds...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Jul 25, 20182 min read
Why I write
In this age of instant information, technology provides us with succinct information instantly, relegating the practice of reading and...
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Tejashrii Shankarraman
Jul 22, 20182 min read
Intellect or Intuition ?
“How can one be spontaneous. . .” ” . . . when you know too much ?” An excerpt from an interview¹ with Philip Johnson, this question...
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