Journey  towards  TOTAL ARCHITECTURE

Encounters of 'Architectural Kind' are common everyday! Evoking a flurry of feelings : Appreciation, Warmth, Ecstasy, Awe, Delight and so on.

An individuals' response is uniquely his own. A response laced with overlapping layers of individual and gro(u)ped memories.

The three dimensional realisation of an architect's abstract idea has the footprints of :

• Definition of problem through research and analysis
• Conceptualisation through synthesis and
• Actualisation through inputs from technocrafts reaching its fruition the 'Master Builders' version !

Hey! can the user be left behind? He responds with a vengeance; giving his version of the 'untold stor(e)y' by morphing the design. The 'Master Builder' is made that much wiser, empathising with users response and perceived needs. For him it is back to future. Again!

A mosaic of such collective can be anything else? but a city! Vibrant to individual and collective responses (to each his own) trying to grapple with dynamics of change. Bangalore is no exception to this. Has a bit for everyone.

A Garden City, Silicon City, I.T, B.T, ET Capital, Capital of Karnataka, Science Capital of India, Technology hub of Asia...... well, it is all this and much more. Come and experience it - a journey, an odyssey.

Karnataka Chapter of the IIA is hosting the XIX National Convention at Bangalore. The theme of the convention is Journey Towards 'TOTAL ARCHITECTURE'.

We invite architects, design professionals and academicians to take part in brain storming sessions! And look for those elusive creative sparks which are what this convention is geared to generate.

Karnataka the land of spices and sciences; of never to be forgotten empires, of sun kissed beaches, west of soaring Western Ghats, of sinewy rivers washing plains in the south has Bangalore as its jewel in the crown!

Bangalore - a city of boiled beans - destination for people full of beans all along was marked out in 1537 by - the visionary Kempegowda of Yelahanka. Later Wodeyars of Mysore controlled it. Hyder Ali brought glamour to it by laying out the famous Lalbagh Gardens. The British took over in the late 1770's. It retained its dual image of Cantonment and Civil lines till Independence. Later it became the Administrative capital of the state and maintained a leisurely pace of life till 1970's. It has since taken the mantle of fastest growing city in Asia.

Located on a ridge at an altitude of 949 meters, it enjoys salubrious climate. It is dotted with parks and lakes viz Lalbagh, Cubbon Park, Sankey Tank, Ulsoor lake etc., It has an electic mix of old and new architectural styles from Vidhana Soudha to ITPL Complex, Museums, Art Galleries are there for the discerning. A touch of the folksy at Janapada Loka, the classical at Nrityagram, the palacial at Mysore, the sculputuresque Halebeed and Shravanabelagola, the wild at Bandipur or Nagarahole are its settings. Well seeing is believing.

Come along and enjoy the famous Kannada warmth and hospitality and travel the Journey Towards 'TOTAL ARCHITECTURE' Ahoy!