Gateway of India: An Undesirable Fragment of Colonial Architecture
Javier Ors Ausin (MDes '17) The extravaganza of the British colonial power in India left…
Topic India
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…
Mehrotra curates The State of Architecture: Practices & Processes in India at Mumbais National Gallery of Modern Art
Rahul Mehrotra, professor of urban design and planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, has curated this spring’s “The State of Architecture: Practices & Processes in India” exhibition at Mumbai’s National Gallery of Modern Art. The exhibition opened on January 6 and runs until March 20. It marks the first large-scale exhibition on architecture in India in over two decades.
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