Author name: Swaleh Adeel

For northern India, where summer temperatures now regularly cross 48 to 50 degrees Celsius, and monsoons are becoming more erratic, these passive strategies for designing buildings are not just historically interesting. They point to a way of architecture that is cooler, more resilient, and less dependent on energy-intensive systems. The recent collapse of a five-storey […]

As architects across the globe search for more sustainable ways to build, monuments like Jaunpur Fort remain a classic example of enduring architectural solutions that existed in the past. Long before sustainability became a global concern, centuries-old monuments were designed to work with nature rather than against it. One such example is Jaunpur Fort, a