316 research outputs found
Chowmahallat
No full textKhilwat Mubarak interior, Durbar Hall; Chowmahallat means "four palaces" in Urdu, alluding to the four different palace blocks. It was the seat of the Asaf Jahi dynasty and was the official residence of the Nizams of Hyderabad while they ruled their state. The palace remains the property of Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah (born 1933), heir of the Nizams. While Salabhat Jung initiated its construction in 1750, it was completed by Asaf Jah V, in 1869, in a mix of Western and Mughal styles. The palace originally covered 45 acres (180,000 m2), but only 12 acres (49,000 m2) remain today; some of the buildings have been destroyed. What remains is centered in two courtyards, northern and southern. The Southern courtyard is the oldest, in Neoclassical stye, and contains four palaces; Afzal Mahal, Mahtab Mahal, Tahniyat Mahal and Aftab Mahal. The Northern courtyard is in Mughal style with Persian elements and contains two long administrative wings (Bara Imam and Shishe-Alat), the Khilwat Mubarak and the Roshan Bangla. The palace complex was restored 2005-2010 by Rahul Mehrotra Associates (RMA), overseen by Princess Esra. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 8/23/2015
Rahul Mehrotra: temporalidad y elasticidad del sistema urbano
No full textComo Director del Departamento de Planificación y Diseño Urbano de la Graduate School of Design de la Universidad de Harvard, el arquitecto indio Rahul Mehrotra está enfocado en recuperar la “era especulativa” de la planificación urbana y, simultáneamente, en traer de vuelta los temas del activismo. Para agregar una dimensión más a la discusión sobre ciudades y urbanismo, Mehrotra propone los conceptos de ”ciudad estática” y ”ciudad cinética”. Dentro de este último, el arquitecto distingue tres categorías: la elasticidad, la estrategia de apropiación por períodos cortos y la incrementalidad, que explora cómo desarrollar una estética a partir de obras que se van haciendo por medio de pequeños avances. Mehrotra sostiene que actualmente toda la acción de la ciudad está en el sur global. Por eso, la nueva teoría vendrá de aquí
El tiempo en el imaginario urbano. Conversación con Rahul Mehrotra
No full textRahul Mehrotra is on sabbatical leave from his academic activities at the Department of Urban Planning and Design that he directs at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), where he has taught for years. He is in Mumbai, his hometown, where he founded RMA Architects in 1990. Moving between Mumbai and Boston, Mehrotra has built a very distinct discourse that has materialized into a vast collection of publications, studies and research papers —all of which were on display at the 18th Biennale di Venezia in 2023—, and architectural projects, most of which were developed in India. This ambiguous, binary standpoint between professional practice in India and academic practice in the United States, between urban design and architecture, between the large and the small, between political action, to which he lays claim as an “activist”, and reflection on humane and inhumane habitability conditions, was the starting point for the conception of this issue of ZARCH and also somehow steers this conversation. Mehrotra articulates a torrent of sometimes sophisticated, at other times apparently self-evident, but always inspiring and transgressional ideas, which revitalize our outlook on the world and shake up our prejudices.Rahul Mehrotra se encuentra de permiso sabático de sus actividades académicas en el Departamento de Planificación y Diseño Urbanos que dirige en la Graduate School of Design (GSD) de Harvard, donde ha enseñado durante años. Se encuentra en Bombay, su ciudad natal, donde fundó RMA Architects en 1990. Moviéndose entre Bombay y Boston, Mehrotra ha construido un discurso muy definido que se ha materializado en una vasta colección de publicaciones, estudios y trabajos de investigación —todos ellos expuestos en la XVIII Bienal de Venecia de 2023—, y proyectos arquitectónicos, la mayoría desarrollados en la India. Este punto de vista ambiguo y binario entre la práctica profesional en la India y la práctica académica en Estados Unidos, entre el diseño urbano y la arquitectura, entre lo grande y lo pequeño, entre la acción política, que reivindica como "activista", y la reflexión sobre las condiciones de habitabilidad humanas e inhumanas, fue el punto de partida para la concepción de este número de ZARCH y también, de alguna manera, dirige esta conversación. Mehrotra articula un torrente de ideas a veces sofisticadas, otras veces aparentemente evidentes, pero siempre inspiradoras y transgresoras, que revitalizan nuestra visión del mundo y sacuden nuestros prejuicios
Embedding time in urban imaginaries. A Conversation with Rahul Mehrotra
No full textRahul Mehrotra is on sabbatical leave from his academic activities at the Department of Urban Planning and Design that he directs at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), where he has taught for years. He is in Mumbai, his hometown, where he founded RMA Architects in 1990. Moving between Mumbai and Boston, Mehrotra has built a very distinct discourse that has materialized into a vast collection of publications, studies and research papers —all of which were on display at the 18th Biennale di Venezia in 2023—, and architectural projects, most of which were developed in India. This ambiguous, binary standpoint between professional practice in India and academic practice in the United States, between urban design and architecture, between the large and the small, between political action, to which he lays claim as an “activist”, and reflection on humane and inhumane habitability conditions, was the starting point for the conception of this issue of ZARCH and also somehow steers this conversation. Mehrotra articulates a torrent of sometimes sophisticated, at other times apparently self-evident, but always inspiring and transgressional ideas, which revitalize our outlook on the world and shake up our prejudices.Rahul Mehrotra se encuentra de permiso sabático de sus actividades académicas en el Departamento de Planificación y Diseño Urbanos que dirige en la Graduate School of Design (GSD) de Harvard, donde ha enseñado durante años. Se encuentra en Bombay, su ciudad natal, donde fundó RMA Architects en 1990. Moviéndose entre Bombay y Boston, Mehrotra ha construido un discurso muy definido que se ha materializado en una vasta colección de publicaciones, estudios y trabajos de investigación —todos ellos expuestos en la XVIII Bienal de Venecia de 2023—, y proyectos arquitectónicos, la mayoría desarrollados en la India. Este punto de vista ambiguo y binario entre la práctica profesional en la India y la práctica académica en Estados Unidos, entre el diseño urbano y la arquitectura, entre lo grande y lo pequeño, entre la acción política, que reivindica como "activista", y la reflexión sobre las condiciones de habitabilidad humanas e inhumanas, fue el punto de partida para la concepción de este número de ZARCH y también, de alguna manera, dirige esta conversación. Mehrotra articula un torrente de ideas a veces sofisticadas, otras veces aparentemente evidentes, pero siempre inspiradoras y transgresoras, que revitalizan nuestra visión del mundo y sacuden nuestros prejuicios
RAHUL MEHROTRA - The Kinetic City & Other Essays
No full textRAHUL MEHROTRAThe Kinetic City & Other Essays. Architangle. Berlin, 2021, 352 pp. Tapa dura, 45 € . Idioma: Inglés ISBN: 978-1-032-11453-
RAHUL MEHROTRA - The Kinetic City & Other Essays
No full textRAHUL MEHROTRAThe Kinetic City & Other EssaysArchitangle. Berlin, 2021, 352 pp. Tapa dura, 45 €Idioma: InglésISBN: 978-1-032-11453-8RAHUL MEHROTRAThe Kinetic City & Other EssaysArchitangle. Berlin, 2021, 352 pp. Tapa dura, 45 €Idioma: InglésISBN: 978-1-032-11453-
Multi-dimensional sparse CSI acquisition for hybrid mmWave MIMO OTFS systems
No full textMulti-dimensional sparse channel state information (CSI) acquisition is conceived for Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation-based millimetre wave (mmWave) multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) systems. A comprehensive end-to-end relationship is derived in the delay-Doppler (DDA) domain by additionally considering the angular parameters and a hybrid beamforming (HB) architecture. A time-domain pilot model tailored for CSI estimation (CE) in the DDA-domain is proposed, which exploits the inherent multi-dimensional (4D) sparsity that emerges in the DDA-domain during the CE process. An efficient low-complexity Bayesian learning (LC-BL) technique is conceived to fulfil the objective of CSI estimation in such systems. Subsequently, a comprehensive examination of the complexity of the algorithm under consideration is also provided. It is worth noting that the complexity of the BL scheme designed is similar to that of popular orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP), but significantly lower than that of the traditional expectation-maximization (EM) based BL technique. Moreover, a single-stage transmit precoder (TPC) and receiver combiner (RC) design is proposed. This procedure aims for maximizing the directional gain of the RF TPC/RC pair by optimizing their weights. Additionally, a series of comprehensive simulations are conducted which incorporate the use of a practical channel model and fractional Doppler shifts. In light of the inherent trade-offs between complexity and estimation algorithm performance, our proposed scheme, LC-BL, appears suitable, especially considering the substantial enhancement in the performance of CE compared to the existing benchmarks
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