Spasm Design Architects   India   The Mumbai-based firm Spasm – founded by Sangeeta Merchant and Sanjeev Panjabi – was commissioned to build this house amidst a coconut grove in Nandgaon, a town in the Murud region. In Urdu, one of India’s more than twenty official languages, parikra

Serie Architects   India   The Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram in Dharampur, in the Indian state of Gujarat, is a complex devoted to the teachings of the Jainist philosopher and spiritual leader Shrimad Rajchandra (1867-1901), based on non-violence and ascetissm. The building compl

Sameep Padora, sP+a    India   Located in the area of Vijayanagar, in the Indian city of Toranagallu, the Hampi Art Labs complex evokes the forms of the neaby Tungabhadra River and the surrounding hills. Using stone, clay, brick, and cement, the project’s spaces flow between curvi

LIJO.RENY.architects   India   Immersed in a humid tropical climate, with strong monsoon rains, this house in the city of Kadirur, in India’s State of Kerala, combines indoor and outdoor spaces, interweaving them with courtyards, landscape pockets, and biophilic features that conn

Sanjay Puri Architects   India   The Mumbai-based firm founded in 1992 by Sanjay and Nina Puri has built this spiral-shaped community center, crowned with a green roof, that gives views of the surrounding desert in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Located in Moolwas, it was designed t

CollectiveProject   India   Located in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a warm dry region, this project involved renovating and enlarging a rural school built for the children of the workers of the Penna cement factory. Forming a multipurpose shaded area accessible

A Threshold   India   On land where fruit-bearing plants are grown, arches of different sizes and walls of brick peep through dense vegetation, looking like ruins of an abandoned construction. Outside Kaggalipura, a village some 40 kilometers south of Bangalore, the capit

Matharoo Associates   India   A series of cubic volumes and stairs of concrete gives rise to this house near the beach of Dumas, in the city of Surat, India. On a stone base, the building fuses traditional architectural elements with contemporary ones. Around a central staircase

Diana Kellogg Architects   India   Within the GYAAN Center, designed by the New York architect Diana Kellogg, stands this school built with local sandstone that welcomes more than 400 girls from families living below the poverty line, in a region where female literacy barely reaches 3

Renesa Architecture   India   There is no doubt that we live surrounded by what Debord acidly called the marchandise vedette, articles that compete to be displayed in the most irresistible way possible, appealing to our senses and our wallets. In architecture, this dictate of pub

McCullough Mulvin Architects Designplus Associates Services   India   Formed in 1956 in Patiala, a city in the Indian state of Punjab, Thapar University commissioned the Dublin practice of Valerie Mulvin and Niall McCullough to unify its disparate campus by devising a masterplan and raising a series of buildings for ho

Studio Lotus   India   In the capital of the Indian state of Odisha, the New Delhi-based firm Studio Lotus has built new offices for the Department of Agriculture. As a government building it was conceived at the outset strictly for official use, but the architects propose

Foster + Partners ArchitectsHafeez Contractor   India   Designed with the highest sustainability standards, the new administrative capital of Andhra Pradesh is organized by an urban grid with a green spine running through its length. The project includes the Legislature Assembly and the High Court complex

Beetles 3.3 Arg- Giombattista Areddia Architetto Yad-Yassin Areddia Design   India   Born as a critique of temporary events that leave abandoned constructions, the pavilion is formed by a wood structure with which the mycelium is merged and from which it eats, and it will grow until it dies once its purpose is fulfilled...

Samira Rathod Design Associates   India   The Mumbai firm of the architect Samira Rathod designed this terracotta school building surrounded by tobacco fields in Bhadran, a village in the state of Gujarat, in far western India. It is characterized by asymmetrical arches for which children’s

Sanjay Puri Architects   India   The campus of Ganeshi Lal Agrawal University in Mathura – a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, 150 kilometers south of New Delhi – includes this student hostel designed by the Mumbai-based practice of Sanjay Puri. Offering 800 rooms, the five

RMA Architects   India   In Alibag, a coastal town in the Indian state of Maharashtra, stands this house fragmeted into three modules, a work of the Mumbai firm RMA Architects of Rahul Mehrotra. Organized around an exterior courtyard, these modules work autonomously but are

Sameep Padora, sP+a    India   sP+a, the Mumbai practice headed by Sameep Padora, has enlarged a small children’s library for Sharda School in Kopargaon, a town in the largely rural Indian state of Maharashtra. Its complex undulating roof is inspired in the brick tile vault techni

Sameep Padora, sP+a    India   Drawing inspiration from the idea of a grove of trees, the paivlion is built with slender wooden footings holding up an inclined roof, which creates a microclimate of shade. 

Jean Nouvel   India   With views of the city and the sea, the 57-story apartment block symbolizes the spirit of Indian cities and their striking colors through the repetition of lacquered glass elements on the facade, configuring a large mashrabiya... [+]

Anupama Kundoo    India   Located on the outskirts of the Indian city of Auroville, in an area much affected by environmental and social problems– from water scarcity to inadequate housing – this house designed by Anupama Kundoo is conceived as a laboratory for sustainable te

Steven Holl   India   The new wing, which adds 11,600 square meters of galleries, is envisioned as a series of Boolean subtractions, with white concrete voids cut out of the simple red Agra stone volume. This operation generates dramatic effects of light and shade... [+]

Zaha Hadid Architects   India   Linked by a fluid landscape with a sculpture garden and a pool, the new annex, wrapped in building blocks, contrasts physically and programmatically with the colonial building, having the potential to set up a dialogue between the traditional and mod

Eduardo Prieto   Does being modern mean adopting a style, taking on a certain attitude, continuing to exhaust the paths of the avant-gardes, ultimately finding new ways to do old things? Balkrishna Doshi (1927-2023), one of the fathers of architecture in India, is un

BBC   Geeta Pandey   Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander - carrying a rover in its belly - touched down on the lunar soil after a 20-minute, nail-biting finale watched by millions of people across the world. Hours later, the Pragyaan rover - Pragyaan is the Sanskrit word for w

Luis Fernández-Galiano   After the worst part of the pandemic, the Ukraine war shook the world tracing an ominous geopolitical scenario, which only science advances seem to alleviate.  

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This country-continent is already the world’s most populated. While humanity hit the 8 billion mark, India surpassed China, showing a demographic strength that contrasts with the decline of the Middle Kingdom, which for the first time in 60 years has

Abel Fernández Villegas   “Fixity is always momentary.” The line from Octavio Paz’s The Monkey Grammarian, a poetic pilgrimage to Galta, in the heart of Rajasthan, could serve as an introduction to this book by the architect and Harvard GSD professor Rahul Mehrotra, a compila

The Wire   Mihir Bhatt   Though Gira means power of speech in Gujarati, Giraben let her work do the speaking – as institution builder, collector, and caretaker of objects, buildings, histories, legacies, and human values for future generations. The passing of Gira Sarabhai,

The Guardian   Arundhati Roy   It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain. During a particularly polarising election campaign in the state

The New York Times   Matt Shaw   After an outcry from preservationists and architects, the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad said that it would reconvene to consider the dorms’ future. Plans to raze 14 of 18 dormitories designed by the architect Louis Kahn for the Indian I

The Indian Express   Ritu Sharma   The board of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad has decided to demolish the dormitories built by legendary American architect Louis Kahn on its campus triggering a controversy. The restoration of the dorms was part of an ongoing project by

Eduardo Prieto   Echoing Aristotle, Leon Battista Alberti proclaimed that in architecture, virtue lies in the middle ground: in moderation, balance, the right proportions. The thesis holds for many architects, but especially for Rahul Mehrotra, whose work has managed

In the capital of the Indian state of Odisha, the New Delhi-based firm Studio Lotus has built new offices for the Department of Agriculture. As a government building it was conceived at the outset strictly for official use, but the architects propose

Quartz India   India will today (Oct. 31) unveil the world’s tallest statue, that of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a leading light of the country’s long freedom struggle against the British. Prime minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the towering structure, loca

Vikram Bhatt   Balkrishna Doschi, a master of modernity and teacher of several generations of Indian architects, is the latest receipient of the Pritzker Prize. 

The chairman of Hyatt Foundation, Tom Pritzker, announced the selection of Balkrishna Doshi as Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate of 2018, the accolade’s fortieth anniversary. Born in Pune in 1927, Doshi is one of the leading figures of modern arch

Rahul Mehrotra   Always mindful of social issues, Charles Correa managed to graft the cultural and architectural traditions of his home country, India, into the modern language.

India’s master of modern architecture, Charles Correa, passed away on 16 June. He was 84 years old. Son of an affluent couple from Goa (which explains his Portuguese surname), Correa had an early calling for architecture (which he associated with his

Maristella Casciato   If Chandi, supreme goddess of the Hindu pantheon and the eponymous divinity of the city of Chandigarh, ever played a celestial role in the selection of the site of the eastern Punjab’s new capital, it was perhaps enacted in the way she repelled, with

Rahul Mehrotra   Kaleidoscopic and plural, the new architecture of India seeks to strike a balance between the strong influence of global tendencies and the desire to maintain the country’s rich traditions.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   India is not a country, but a continent. It is very hard to fully grasp its diversity, so here we attempt to explore its architecture through a series of examples that go from the Himalayas to its southern extreme. As Rahul Mehrotra explains, in cont

Rahul Mehrotra   Berlín  2021  
ArchiTangle   - 352 Pages 

Maria Bonaiti   Villa Sarabhai, Ahmedabab, 1951-1956

Rahul Mehrotra   RMA Architects

Peter Scriver Amit Srivastava   Modern Architectures in history

Werner Feiersinger Andrea Vass   Vienna  2015  
Scheidegger & Spiess   - 414 Pages 

Rahul Mehrotra   Ostfildern  2011  
Hatje Cantz   - 312 Pages