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Domus India 35, December 2014
In the December issue of Domus India we continue to mark our interactions with history – not to celebrate or romanticise it, but indeed to collect our contemporary, fully aware that the moment ‘now’ in many ways is a persistence of ideas that change and grow, metamorphose and become completely new, and the trajectories of these ideas is important for any discursive and intellectual endeavour.

In this issue, we complete the second part of the provisional Lexicon compiled from the 33 issues of Domus India until October 2014.

Another mini-project that Domus India set out to mark the completion of three years of Domus in India, is that we invited a set of senior thinkers, practitioners, and scholars to pull out a text from the past, which, if we read again today resonates fresh ongoing debates, as much as it still holds ground on counts it was written for in the past. From the past, but only more significant now… featuring texts and essays from art historian and curator Geeta Kapur, and architects Charles Correa, Prem Chandavarkar and Rahul Mehrotra. Also, in this issue the three latest projects by Charles Correa – the MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon; and the Ismaili Centre in Toronto.

We wind up the magazine with a feature on the extension of the British Museum by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, organised in a series of pavilions that are inserted, but does not blindly emulate other monumental buildings of historic importance.

This issue celebrates architecture in all its avatars and journeys; it asks critically sharp questions, raises issues, and makes us wonder why are there not many more instances of critical expansions and dissensions in the fields of architecture and culture.


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Domus India 35, December 2014, cover
Domus India 35, December 2014, cover

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