India

Continuing the journey to explore ways in which the contemporary architect in India shapes these image-ideas, and the ambiguous or anxious relationship we share with the past of image-forms, and form-ideas, is something we explore in the January 2016 issue.

In revisiting the Modern developments in Delhi, Chandigarh, and Ahmedabad, we visit the propositions of “form as idea” and the image-form. While other architectural projects, methodologies of working, including the approach of a Gond artist Sukhnandi Vyam Pardhan to his work, are multiple ways in which design engages with the everyday, as well as the need for a sensibility towards design shaping the arena of culture, action, and thought. We then chronicle how using natural materials, local know-how, and the age-old technique of building with mud, Bidyut Roy’s works are reminiscent of nature- and context-derived building traditions from the region and result in architecture that is a unique dialogue on design. We feature new extension buildings for a university in Chennai by architectureRED that offer a distinctive sense of place and a renewed sense of identity to an old institution. Setting the new buildings within the existing fabric, the design approach develops from the notion of a vertical campus – taller blocks that anchor the disparate aspects through a common “new datum”.

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