Monday, May 10, 2010





The jury performances are always remain inadequate, when one look at only final product. However this year jury managed to raise that queries to level of acceptability. The overall work has been satisfactory however quality of design queries vs quality of architecture has alway been uncomfortable.

THE INCIDENTAL URBANISM




DIAGRAMATIC URBANISM



RECIPORCAL URBANISM


HYBIRD URBANISM


URBANISM & PUBLI DOMAIN


PERIPHERAL URBANISM



Wednesday, April 14, 2010

MASTER' JURY

The jury went with few notes as i began to question many things that may bring the discourse of abstraction in center. The ideal of representation & concreteness are duality within which entire idea of manifestation oscillates. The notion of academics is real vs real than perhaps we are limited by choices but if real is abstracted than choices are given new identity of attitude. I think the attitude is which brings entire discourse of design discipline in focus. Can urban responses are as abstract as responses of self within urban?.. The work produced by the batch was phenomenal, & had enough substance to bring discussion of urbanity in some sense. The idea of seeking urbanity in housing is rather difficult task, yet they all understood the concern if not responses.

I thing we need to ask right question on such issues...
- what is urban
- what is not urban
- what is urbanity that need to design
- what is urban edge
- is that anything that is non-urban
- is urban a process...
- is urban a collective ideal
- is urbanity has order
- can urbanity be time bound

I feel issues of such nature can bring some more values is shaping our notion of urban.

Monday, January 25, 2010

UNDISCIPLINED ETYMOLOGY

The undisciplined city conference on 30/11/09 had some interesting views & interpretation of our city that are going through rigorous transformation. The list of deformities that surfaces through rationlization of our cities are beyond the scope of even multi-disciplinary approaches we talk about. The undisciplined etymology is the store of such deformities.

  • Legal deficit
  • Delienation deficit
  • deman deficit
  • demand ssesment
  • stake holder assesment
  • undisciplined legislative/ power/ politics/ economy
  • undisciplined gentrification
  • undisciplined linguistic territorial demand
  • autonomous processes
  • unintended city
  • Intentions & contentions
  • Building cities from outside
  • urbanity "a state of mind", urbanism "a object of mind"
  • is conteporary urbanism a new found confusion?
  • disciplinary confinement
  • contested trajectory
  • urban society going out of disciplinary constitution
  • beyond city bound.

Monday, January 18, 2010

EASTERN CARICATURE

The metaphor that attached with east is rising & perhaps manifested somewhere in our rituals & our cultural manifestation. The east is histoically a historical, that cannot be slightest exaggeration in that since we are facinated by narrative more than monuments. We have limited discussion on the very idea of east, especially from western biases. Perhaps the argument of east have never delve more deeply into their interpretation of form, sources, intentions, meaning. Hence there are inherent risk in any attempt to evaluate current tendencies that our cities manifesting without bases to rationalize transformation. The filter of east is perhaps inhibiting the process since the colonial stigma, British legacy still lingers with our socio-cultural processes that shapes our cities. Hence east is perhaps analogy from western centric thought who tried to renewed the Raj legacy from the nostalgic perspective of current fashion.

Our attempt appears to be partial appraisal extends to the historical context from which the expression of our cities evolving. From our external perspective it appears that certain presumptions regarding the cultural history of (east) and in its contacts with other cultures in contemporary world may yeild intriguing & deceptive assumptions.

Monday, January 11, 2010

SAURASHTRA

The cyclical route to Saurashtra seems analogus to cyclical notion of time that exist in our memory. The travelling distance of 2000 km appeared like one cinema with several character, each is individual yet bounded by larger theme. The Saurashtra has architecture, which are distorted & defaced along the time, yet pride to exist with distorted hisotory is visible among people.

" perforated timewall has distorted the time memory, yet it is familiar"

"that scatterd memory through time wall seems familiar"

"that hidden lapsed memory overshadowed by brocken building seems familiar as well"

"time has no respect for age, every building that rose with time is destined & perhaps thats the form of time"

"the form of buildings are distorted & defaced yet the ideality in existance with time also seems familiar"















































































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