In an interview, Peter Cook points out to a very important and delicate issue – the idea of architecture that plays in the realms of imagination and utopia versus what one would otherwise refer to as ‘build-able’ or ‘normal’ architecture. The feature on Kumbh Mela which is a series of extracts from the research and subsequent book – discusses a Pop-Up urbanity – an architectural landscape of the built and of its ‘unbuilding’. The issue also discusses 'dwellings' — it occupies much of this issue as the architectural phenomenon of material realities and notions of urbanity. While in other cases the act of architecture engages with form, memory and light, as with the Box of Light in Italy and Fort House in Hyderabad, in some, the dwelling is an urban island within a wider landscape of suburban India as with the Lattice House in Jammu featured in this issue.

 
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