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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.
Climax City – This book started life as a book of maps. Maps that have taken a lot of time to draw, huge amounts of time in fact. So much time that we have been branded by friends and family as obsessive. Before we start, let us offer a defence, or at least a plea in mitigation.
Unbuilt work continues, in more ways than one! We are overwhelmed at the enthusiasm and support we have received in this endeavour, and are excited
Blueprint – The Works of Gautam Bhatia, is an artist’s testimony about his work, nothing more and nothing less. For that reason alone, it is an unusually welcome event in Indian architectural discourse.
#91 RESIDENCES – Contemporary Indian Houses [2016] – The hashtag allows moving away from categorization into typologies and classification by climate, size, style, etc. to create new affinities among hitherto non-connected buildings for instant access to similar creative expressions / elements.
91 RESIDENCES ExTENDed, the sequel to +91 RESIDENCES – Contemporary Indian Houses, continues the documentation through photographs, sketches, drawings, models featuring 49 independent dwellings across India (2000-2011) and ten essays by architects.
+91 RESIDENCES – CONTEMPORARY INDIAN HOUSES derived the qualifying adjective from the country phone code for India and features 91 independent dwellings across India designed by architects in India built after the year 2000 and 19 works-in-progress.
In an age where the mammoth, the huge, the colossal, and in the words of Rem Koolhass, “Biggness” is celebrated, and the monumental is the
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The Auroville Architects Monograph Series documents the pioneering work of the architects whose vision shaped Auroville, a unique international township in southeastern India. This monograph,
Brinda Somaya has created a diverse and eclectic portfolio of work that spans the width and depth of India. Belonging to the “Bridge Generation”, Somaya defines the term and frames it as a time in which individuals initiated their careers in different arts including architecture and design as they addressed the changing socio-political landscape of a newly-Independent India. It was this generation that ‘bridged’ the architectural spaces between the Great Masters and the current generation.
Castles in the Air, book by Sangeet Sharma takes one through the realities of the architecture profession and education.
Timeless Houses showcases 17 exclusive private residences designed by leading architects of four countries — India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Though all the houses are sited in the Southern Asian region they are diverse in their architectural forms and styles.
The ubiquitous ‘home in the woods’ or the notion of ‘heading to the hills’ no longer conforms to the imageability of a rustic cabin house. With the gaining popularity of weekend retreats, a different narrative is being posited. At an intersection of exploring the hubris of pristine and peri-urban settings, what sets the programmatic challenge or conformity for these architectural expressions? – Maanasi Hattangadi
Reinventing Dharavi: An Ideas Compendium is an abridged compilation of proposals received through an international ideas competition, conceived by the Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI).
The books remind us on every page how a city is only as large as the sum of its inhabitants, the people making the place before the place makes the people.
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