Students experience “Extreme Urbanism” first-hand on studio trip to Mumbai
The Spring 2018 option studio “Extreme Urbanism V: Exploring Hybrid Housing Typologies, Elphinstone State”…
Topic India
Gateway of India: An Undesirable Fragment of Colonial Architecture
Javier Ors Ausin (MDes '17) The extravaganza of the British colonial power in India left…
Extreme Urbanism V: Exploring Hybrid Housing Typologies, Elphinstone Estate, Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra
This studio will focus on questions of housing in the city of Mumbai. Exponential real…
Soft Thresholds: Projects of RMA Architects, Mumbai
An elephant and its family at the Hathigaon Elephant Village near Jaipur, Rajasthan. Photo: Rahul Mehrotra As a point of entry and exit, a threshold has a dual coding in society as both a physical and symbolic marker of separation and connection. Thresholds are often…
Aga Khan Program Lecture: Bijoy Jain, “Lore”
Studio Mumbai, founded by Bijoy Jain, works with a human infrastructure of…
Mumbai Memo: Indexing India
Nazneen Cooper, curator Niall Kirkwood, curator…
Extreme Urbanism IV: Looking at Hyper Density – Dongri, Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra
In recent years, housing has become an extremely scarce commodity in Mumbai. In 2007, Mumbai…
Living in the Kinetic City: Mapping Housing in a Landscape of Flux, Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra
Increasing concentrations of global flows have exacerbated the inequalities and spatial divisions of social…
Livelihoods and Urban Form: Mumbai in a Comparative Perspective
Rahul Mehrotra, Martha Chen
Small-scale manufacturing in workshops and homes, small-scale trading on street corners or makeshift markets, car…
Coupling Thermal Mass & Buoyancy for Thermoregulation and Ventilation in India
by Palak Gadodia (MDes '16) This thesis explores how the form and mass of a…
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