The Gyaan Project x Matter
B L MANJUNATH
Based out of Bengaluru, B L Manjunath is a distinguished structural engineer and the founder of Manjunath & Co. Structural Consultants. The practice believes in learning about structures from nature and from everything around them. With decades of experience, he has contributed to projects of numerous scales and typologies. He is also an educator, acclaimed for integrating structural efficiency and innovation in engineering design.
In this conversation, Manjunath positions spatial thinking as a speculative practice grounded in perception, memory and imagination. He reflects on the transition from seeing to observing, proposing that design emerges through an engagement with the unseen dimensions of place and experience. Intensity is framed not as concentration, but as a state of rigorous inquiry driven by curiosity, uncertainty and continual self-revision. Through metaphors of geology, growth and transformation, the discussion challenges disciplinary boundaries and fixed modes of thinking.
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