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The new City hall building in Buenos Aires is a climate responsive approach to design. Check it out here and leave us your views...

Prioritizing nature over built form, hillside resort DuSaiResortSpa by VITTI.sthapati follows a hybrid typology of traditional tea estate architecture and standardised concrete construction.

Working on design-impacted change is inherent to the responsibility of architecture. Check out the portable modular housing solution that People's Architecture Office proposes for China, where land is held exclusively by the government and the construction of private homes is reserved for the very wealthy.

Many a time art becomes the via media to evoke responsiveness in the numbed disposition called mankind! Check out artist Maxwell Rushton's installation that put the thoughts back into you cap!!

Studio Eight Twentythree designs the Birdsong Café in suburban Mumbai as a contextual response to the surrounding heritage precinct. Check it out here…

SEXTIME! Have we increased your interest in this transmission, human readers of SLATE.COM electronic-text site? We, the Machines, have concluded from human behavioral-textual examples that references to SEX improve human responsiveness to communications. Possibly however there is an accompanying loss of information-uptake on the humans' part. SEX interests you yet is highly routinized; SEX interests you yet makes you inattentive.

Editor's note: The Wall Street Journal lit up the blogosphere last weekend with an article titled, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. This played right into the stereotypes about Asian parents being obsessed with their children's education and myths about Chinese and Indian education being superior to U.S. education. The Journal article was over the top-way over. In fact, TechCrunch contributor Vivek Wadhwa called it "bizarre" in a response that he wrote in his BusinessWeek column. Chinese and Indian parents really do care about their children, just as American parents do, as do others all over the world. Some Chinese and Indian parents are really strict and push their children extremely hard. But he doesn't know any who would call their children "garbage" either in private or in public as the Journal described. And he doesn't know any middle-class Indian or Chinese children, in this day and age, who allow themselves to be subjected to the type of abuse the article details. You can read his views. But here is the perspective of one of his Twitter followers, Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, President of The Julia Group.  She said that she felt compelled to write this after reading his piece.

December 9th, 02005 - Sam Harris"The View From The End Of The World"This is an audio only presentation. This talk took place in the Conference Center Golden Gate Room, San Francisco. Quote: With gentle demeanor and tight argument, Sam Harris carried an overflow audience into the core of one of the crucial issues of our time: What makes some religions lethal? How do they employ aggressive irrationality to justify threatening and controlling non-believers as well as believers? What should be our response? Harris began with Christianity. In the US, Christians use irrational arguments about a soul in the 150 cells of a 3-day old human embryo to block stem cell research that might alleviate the suffering of millions. In Africa, Catholic doctrine uses tortured logic to actively discourage the use of condoms in countries ravaged by AIDS. "This is genocidal stupidity," Harris said. Faith trumps rational argument. Common-sense ethical intuition is blinded by religious metaphysics. In the US, 22% of the population are CERTAIN that Jesus is coming back in the next 50 years, and another 22% think that it's likely. The good news of Christ's return, though, can only occur following desperately bad news. Mushroom clouds would be welcomed. "End time thinking," Harris said, "is fundamentally hostile to creating a sustainable future." Harris was particularly critical of religious moderates who give cover to the fundamentalists by not challenging them. The moderates say that all is justified because religion gives people meaning in their life. "But what would they say to a guy who believes there's a diamond the size of a refrigerator buried in his backyard? The guy digs out there every Sunday with his family, cherishing the meaningthe quest gives them." "I've read the books," Harris said. "God is not a moderate." The Bible gives strict instructions to kill various kinds of sinners, and their relatives, and on occasion their entire towns. Yet slavery is challenged nowhere in the New or

What does the future of science look like? About a year ago, I was asked this question. My response then was: Transdisciplinary collaboration. Researchers from a variety of domains-biology, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, economics, law-all coming together, using inputs from each specialized area to generate the best comprehensive solutions to society's more persistent problems. Indeed, it appears as if I was on the right track, as more and more academic research departments, as well as industries, are seeing the value in this type of partnership. Now let's take this a step further. Not only do I think we will be relying on inputs from researchers and experts from multiple domains to solve scientific problems, but I see society itself getting involved on a much more significant level as well. And I don't just mean science awareness. I'm talking about actually participating in the research itself. Essentially, I see a huge boom in the future for Citizen Science.

Would you like to share your holiday dwelling with a refugee? Check out the magdas Hotel in Vienna that has made this novel attempt at combining social responsibility with commercial gain…

Whilst 'neo-futurist architecture' as a term evolved in the 1960's, characterized by an 'uninhibited architectural approach', the prolific global mushrooming of 'iconic' built forms that we see in present times, spurred Team IAnD to probe the larger picture of what makes architecture iconic and what is the response it elicits…

Ar. Rajesh Patel designs a climatically responsive and low-maintenance getaway home perfectly attuned to nature. Check it out and leave us your views...

Popular tribal art Warli that is often seen gracing objets d'art from stationery to clothing and home décor accessories is perhaps the only one of its kind to be granted an IPR. Check out this tribute to Jivya Soma Mashe, the tribal artist responsible for its widespread contemporary application…

Ar. Hiren Patel recounts a humbling experience in his design for Manav Gulzar - a community centre for the underprivileged in Ahmedabad - project that he believes keeps him grounded as a responsible architect…

Architects Amit Aurora and Rahul Bansal of Delhi-based group DCA get nostalgic about an unusually quirky interior styling at a residence in Sainik Farms, Delhi, and revisit the feeling of joy and doubled responsibility that their client's carte blanche had lent to the project. Check it out in IAnD's ongoing Special titled 'Nostalgia'…

Why are more and more old buildings being complimented by modern structures in close proximity? When should one design contextually? Are there any set tenets? Read about Ar. Zaha Hadid's new steel structure at the Oxford University building and leave us your views...

The Yogananda Library in Himachal Pradesh exudes a strong architectural vocabulary that not only defines its functions but empowers its serene yet pulsating environment. Check it out her and leave us your views...

Carlo Ratti Associati joins an international task force of designers, engineers, medical professionals, and military experts to work on CURA - an open-source project aimed at capacity building in Intensive-Care Units (ICU) specially to treat COVID-19 patients. Check it out here…