Notes on architecture, interiors, and process from The Urban Ethos.
We prefer materials that age visibly rather than ones that pretend not to.
Concrete that weathers, wood that greys, metal that develops a patina all tell you the truth about time passing, which is more honest than a facade engineered to look perpetually new.
Good architecture in Hyderabad has to reckon with long, intense summers and a short but heavy monsoon.
Orientation, shading, and cross-ventilation do more for comfort here than mechanical cooling ever will, and they cost nothing to run.