MADE IN INDIA

Made in India

Guest-edited by Kazi K Ashraf


The architectural and urban landscape of India is being remade in unexpected and exuberant ways. New economic growth, the infiltration of global media and technologies, and the transnational reach of the diasporic Indian have unleashed a new cultural and social dynamic. While the dynamic is most explicit and visible in the context of the Indian city, a different set of transformations is taking place in the rural milieu. Yet, as the political writer Sunil Khilnani notes, the world's sense of India, of what it stands for and what it wishes to become, seems as confused and divided today as is India's own sense of itself. It is a challenge, in these conditions, to explore how the deeply entrenched histories and traditions of India are being reimagined, and how questions of the extraordinary diversity of India are being reinterpreted in its architectural and urban landscape. AD traces this compelling story through the writings of Prem Chandavarkar, Sunil Khilnani, Anupama Kundoo, Reinhold Martin, Michael Sorkin, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, and others, as well as through the work of some 25 practices currently producing work on the Indian subcontinent.

Kazi K Ashraf teaches at the University of Hawaii School of Architecture. He studied at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. He writes on phenomenological issues of architecture and landscape, and contemporary South Asia. He co-edited the publication An Architecture of Independence: The Making of Modern South Asia (Architectural League of New York, 1997), and has curated exhibitions on Modern architecture in South Asia, Louis Kahn’s Capital Complex, and architecture in Bangladesh. He is currently working on a new book, The Last Hut: Dwelling in the Ascetic Imagination.

01 Editorial


Helen Castle


02 Introduction


Raga India: Architecture in the Time of Euphoria


Kazi K Ashraf


03 The India Project


Sunil Khilnani


04 Indian Panorama


Chris Lee/Kapil Gupta


TEAM (Snehansu Mukherjee and AR Ramanathan)


Sanjay Puri Architects


Fabian Ostner


Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects


05 One Space, Many Worlds


Ramesh Biswas


06 The Visceral City and the Theatre of Fear


Ravi Sundaram


07 Mumbai Architects


Studio Mumbai Architects (Bijoy and Priya Jain)


Rahul Mehrotra Associates


Samira Rathod Design Associates


08 Auroville: An Architectural Laboratory


Anupama Kundoo


09 Local Stone (A Fragment)


Reinhold Martin


10 Material Formations


Matharoo Associates (Gurjit Singh Matharoo)


Anupama Kundoo


Vastu Shilpa Consultants (Rajeev Kathpalia)


Architecture Autonomous (Gerard da Cunha)


Urbana


11 In Depth: Inscribing the Indian Landscape


Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha


12 The ‘Background’ in Bangalore: Architecture and Critical Resistance in a New Modernity


Prem Chandavarkar


13 A Trip to India


Michael Sorkin


14 Bangalore Architects


Mathew & Ghosh Architects


Hundredhands


Chandavarkar and Thacker


Mindspace (Sanjay Mohe)


InFORM Architects (Kiran Venkatesh)


15 Sharifa’s House


Dr Adnan Morshed


16 This is Not a Building! Hand-Making a School in a Bangladeshi Village


Kazi K Ashraf


17 Subcontinental Panorama


Kerry Hill Architects


Piercy Conner Architects & Designers


Shatotto: Architecture for Green Living (Rafiq Azam)


Ann Pendleton-Jullian


Saif Ul Haque Sthapati


Tsunami Design Initiative (TDI)


Madhura Prematilleke (Team Architrave)





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Interior Eye


Boston Institute of Contemporary Art


Jayne Merkel


Building Profile


Casa Kike, Costa Rica


Jeremy Melvin


Practice Profile


DSDHA


Helen Castle


Spiller’s Bits


Good-Natured Stuff


Neil Spiller


Yeang’s Eco-Files


On Green Design (Part 2)


The Basic Premises for Green Design


Ken Yeang


McLean’s Nuggets


Will McLean


Userscape


Sensible Objects for Digital Environments


Valentina Croci


Unit Factor


Forming Climatic Change


Steve Hardy and Werner Gaiser


Site Lines


Gods Are in the Details: The Ambika Temple at Jagat


Adam Hardy