Kozhikode Rising to be a Design Metropolis

2500 Delegates, 200 Guests, 10000 Footfall, and 350 Volunteers at IIA YAF Crossroads 2022, The Country’s Biggest Architectural Festival.

Serene Sarovaram bio park and Kozhikode Trade Centre lit up the Canopy Canal stretch in mesmerising grandeur. Three days of intellectual satiation. Three days of precision-programmed events curated to provoke your grey cells to think, think and think. Three days of cultural extravaganza. Three days of the warmest hospitality.
What more can a festival be? The CROSSROADS- Young Architects Festival, 2022, hosted by the Indian Institute of Architects, Calicut Centre under the aegis of IIA, Kerala Chapter, was all this and much more!

The event host multiple official programmes of the Indian Institute of Architects, including the official commencement of the event. Ar. L.Gopakumar, Chairperson, IIA, Kerala Chapter, gave the welcome address. Ar. C.R.Raju, President, IIA, National, gave the Presidential address. The IIA Young Architect Awards were distributed. The IIA mobile application was unveiled and introduced.

Day 01 concluded with Ar. Noufal C. Hashim, principal architect, I two architects and Convenor, Crossroads- YAF 2022, briefing the delegates on the event’s proceedings. The two programme-packed days always began with serene morning ragas live by talented artists.

This opened SABHA (main stage) for several thought-provoking, mind boggling, inspiring, the intense session’s one after the other. In the open address, IIA, Kozhikode centre Chairperson and principal architect, De Earth, Ar. Vivek P. P. says, “Our responsibility towards the environment is aplenty in light of climate change, environmental degradation, and the growth of Artificial Intelligence.

We ask the most pertinent question: What does architecture mean, and to whom? Let Architecture transcend through more deep layers of our society than become mere objects to please the eye. Let Architecture safeguard the interest of anyone who inhabits this ‘pale blue dot.

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