By Saifullah Sami, May 2004
Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan
This piece of writing is from the author’s bachelor of architecture graduation dissertation “A Sense of Community through Promenade Architecturale" written in spring, 2004. It analyses two buildings by Le Corbusier to identify possible consistencies in his approach to "promenade architecturale".
By Saifullah Sami, August 2015
This essay proposes the idea of a "critical" urban campus. Such a campus provokes questions about and explores new ways of addressing contextual realities, tangible and intangible. In doing so it is critical of prevalent norms in the construction and usage of public space, exchange of knowledge, criticism and inquiry, the role of private property and capital in the life of the civic community, sustainability, and the relationship of the campus building's architecture with civic space and form.
By Saifullah Sami, May 2008
This paper compares the theoretical ideas of two leading protagonists in current architectural discourse. Kenneth Frampton and Rem Koolhaas appear to be in diametric opposition to each other on the issues of regional identity and creation of place in a rapidly globalizing world. Whereas Frampton has been known during the last twenty-five years as the key theoretical proponent of "critical regionalism", Koolhaas articulately spear-heads an approach to design that Steven Moore has called "radical nihilism", one altogether unconcerned with regionalism.