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  Domus India, October 2016
The October 2016 issue of Domus India largely explores the visual critique of architecture as well as the expanding nature of architectural language as a reality of the contemporary moment.

Through artist Navjot Altaf’s meticulous watercolours, zooming into the detailed patterns of high-modern architectural structures overlapping with the pattern of the graph-curve, we engage with the questions of tradition, locality, labour, creativity, and context. We also bring to the fore a brief discussion revolving around a conference brimming with thoughts and dialogues — ‘Building as Ideas’, organised by the Charles Correa Foundation to commemorate the eponymous architect’s birth anniversary since his death in June 2015.

The concept of architectural practice is surveyed through three projects — the redevelopment of a palace café in Jaipur, involving a design process by Studio Lotus that explores a history of construction of the structure, paying attention to details as well as the modes of conservation; the rehabilitation of the Handmade Paper Institute in Pune; and the restoration of a brick house, also in Pune. Every building can be treated as a symposium of histories, practices and ideas; and the architecture that will be most important for us to understand the contemporary is that which adopts argumentative propositions between material and form, or meaning and language, or tectonic articulations and conditions of perception. 



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Domus India, October 2016, cover
Domus India, October 2016, cover

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