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Text by Gautam Bhatia in category: Microsite: Gautam Bhatia (works)...Architecture in India carries a difficult burden. In a country, where situations and problems achieve a despairing magnitude, is there a way of thinking of architecture, other than as mere problem solving? Should architecture even innovate towards problems? Should it remit to finding solutions to the Bhopal Gas tragedy? Should artistic effort be directed towards making, not just adequate, but thoughtfully imaginative houses for those who need shelter from a cyclone in Orissa?
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Source: Catalogue of exhibition hosted by Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. ,
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If there is a professed spatial, humanist or aesthetic purpose to architecture it is difficult to experience it in the reality of the city. On paper architecture is that wonderful making of spaces, that sculptural massing of forms ... but the city displays nothing ... but a dreary mass of broken and smudged plaster, flagging in spirit, depressing, unsightly, blemished ... leaving you with nothing. No remembrance of landmarks, no encounter with history, no cause for celebration.
Gautam Bhatia in Building an Ugly India
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I remember architecture is fleeting moments. Over time these moments consolidate into cumulative impression. Places grow from nodding acquaintances to take root in a deepening landscape that stays, not as a fixed image, but whose swaying shifting characteristics create a containment that lingers... Yet, there was no single correct perception of the place; no one vantage from which the structure was to be viewed... - external ref: Art India > Arhitecture, Without Style...