As architecture moves away from the hands that built to machines that produce, economies are being realigned towards conglomerates. The rural economies that relied on craft are on a gradual decline. Architecture can perhaps play a role to reverse the said adversary and build economic resilience in the craft and construction industry.
Vasant is one of those rare architects, who conceive a project according to a system of beliefs and values that becomes manifest in their architecture, and in the process stands out against the majority of buildings today. Buildings that seem to be without reason or that are plain banal.
Rahoul Singh: Architecture represents the crafts collective – a number of different craftsmen collectively contribute to the built work, each bearing the imprint of a particular trade. Unfortunately, seldom do they or their communities get acknowledged for their contribution. This, at the outset, is the first step in eroding the identity of a people associated with a particular trade and by extension region, but it gets worse.
Project Location: New Delhi, India Design Team: T.E.A.M (Team for Engineering, Architecture and Management) – Snehanshu Mukherjee and A.R. Ramanathan Project Status: Proposal / Idea / Unbuilt
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