“If ever there was a novelist of space, Sen Kapadia is one.”
January 10, 2023
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Architect Gautam Bhatia reviews the book, ‘Sen Kapadia: In Pursuance of Meanings’, edited by Pinkish Shah.
Architect Gautam Bhatia reviews the book, ‘Sen Kapadia: In Pursuance of Meanings’, edited by Pinkish Shah.
The book on Ramu Katakam is important for two reasons: first and foremost, it is a truthful rendition of architecture as an evolutionary process in an architect’s life; and second, it is the most forthcoming, unguarded, agile and direct form of writing, expressed without fear of judgment.
An Unusual Architect, by Gautam Bhatia
Anant Raje was a free man. His long association with Louis Kahn, from 1964 to 1974, and later, the twenty-six years as project architect for the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, were his first call to free- dom.
We talked to Gautam Bhatia about the role and relevance of architects today in the society, particularly India. We asked, ‘Has the profession distanced itself
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