Category Archives: Dialogues

Architecture, Design Thinking, Dialogues, Drawing to Find Out, Interviews, Visual Culture

DRAWING TO FIND OUT [06]: PERCY ADIL PITHAWALA

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Percy Adil Pithwala’s practice moves through intersections in art and architecture. While analysing his work at the Red Studio in Vadodara, we discuss and discover his way of looking at drawing – the abstract and the architectural. 

Images and Drawings: Courtesy Percy Adil Pithawala
Author: Vedanti Agarwal
Curation & Film: Matter

Percy Pithawala has developed a unique approach to architectural practice over the years. Situated between pedagogy, art and architecture, his practice forages for intersections, unions and relationships between the three fields with ideas moving fluidly between the three. Percy Pithawala transitioned from working on conventional architecture projects to testing new grounds in competitions, abstract explorations and experimental pedagogy. While growing into both an artist and an architect, Percy closely engaged with ‘drawing as art’ from his schooling years at Pratt University, New York. His process engages with various modes, methods and mediums of drawing, some meant to bring about resolution in thought, while others: a vivid intuitive activity; each one producing expressive outcomes. Continue reading DRAWING TO FIND OUT [06]: PERCY ADIL PITHAWALA →

Architecture, Contemporary Practice, Design Thinking, Dialogues, Discourse, Interviews, Praxis, Studio

Sanjay Mohe on Practice of Architecture in India

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In a discussion with Sanjay Mohe, Principal, Mindspace Architects, we explore the relationship between architecture and the specific peculiarities of the Indian landscape to try and decipher a unique way of seeing that is at the core of our experience of the built environment in India.

Q: You practise architecture in India – a landscape of great diversity and multiple cultures. What do you think is unique about practising in India? Continue reading Sanjay Mohe on Practice of Architecture in India →

Architecture, Contemporary Practice, Dialogues, Discourse, Interior Design, Interviews, Praxis

SAMIRA RATHOD ON PRACTICE OF INTERIOR DESIGN

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Samira Rathod, Principal, Samira Rathod Design Atelier [SRDA] writes about the predicaments and opportunities of practising interior architecture in India – a context where the discipline is disorganised and there is lack of clarity on the role of design consulting in the interior space.

Craftsmanship – learning in the making of the object.

PRACTICE

To write about interior design as a practice is very tough since we do not see Interior design as a formal, organised discipline in India. When we were studying architecture, there was no independent/separate interior design practice in India and no interior designers that were respected or known enough. Continue reading SAMIRA RATHOD ON PRACTICE OF INTERIOR DESIGN →

Architecture, Design Thinking, Dialogues, Drawing to Find Out, Interviews, Studio, Visual Culture

DRAWING TO FIND OUT [05]: SHUBHRA RAJE

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Shubhra Raje, principal architect of shubhra raje_built environments closely engages with different drawing practices within her studio. By excavating and analysing visual material in Shubhra’s studio, we attempt to decipher the draftsmanship cultures, their relationship with the design process and the way in which they inform her practice.

Images and Drawings: Courtesy Shubhra Raje
Author: Vedanti Agarwal
Curation and Film: Matter.

Shubhra Raje’s practice emphasizes the act of drawing as a means of critical thinking. Her rigorous drawing habit traces back to schooling years at CEPT University, where drawing by hand was ingrained in the academic rigour. However, her perceptions on the necessity to draw as a mode of thinking (as against drawing to represent) evolved through learnings during her time at the Cornell University. Representational drawings command a style that is conscious of its viewers. Design-thinking drawings are undisturbed collaterals between the engaged hand and the searching mind, oblivious of another eye. The scale of Shubhra’s practice enables her to engage with all stages of drawing in the design development process.

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Architectural Education, Architecture, Contemporary Practice, Design Thinking, Dialogues, Discourse, Praxis

DIALOGUE: The Bangalore Workshop 2018

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As a part of the closing conversation of the 2018 edition of The Bangalore Workshop, Richard Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury, Madhura Prematilleke and Niall McLaughlin discuss the challenges of making and teaching architecture of gravitas in a world with a visual bias.  

7th April 2018, IIM Bangalore
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