Domus India Magazine - November 2020

Domus India Magazine - November 2020

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In this issue

With this issue, we enter our tenth annual cycle of DOMUS India. The last nine years have seen crucial dialogues and discussions around architecture and the built environment in India. This magazine has indeed played a crucial role in producing the many critical discussion, reflections, and theses on architecture in contemporary India, as well the nature of the contemporary in India vis-à-vis the visual and built environment especially. In unequal societies, how can we raise basic living standards? In a collapsing natural environment, how can we make planetary changes? In an increasingly globalised world, how do we define local identity? The ability to understand the role of the built environment at ever greater and ever finer scales is a skill our profession depends on for its survival. Saskia Sassen begins the “Agenda” section by considering how the abstract dynamics of the global economy are “rescaling” our spatial units.

We are using the “Practice” section to provoke a reflection on the ways in which the architectural profession can or should engage with the ever expanding issues of social inequality and environmental degradation – brought more sharply into focus by the pandemic – in our world today. In the context of this conversation and these questions, we specially visit two projects by architect Revathi Kamath, from our archives, as a tribute to an architect from India who really expanded the role of the architect and the reach of architecture through her practice and her beliefs in certain processes of working and thinking; Revathi Kamath passed away in July this year and there remains much for us to learn from her projects, her ways of working, and the way she approached architecture.

Domus India Magazine Description:

PublisherSpenta Multimedia Pvt Ltd

CategoryArchitecture

LanguageEnglish

FrequencyMonthly

Domus, the iconic architecture and design magazine from Italy, is now in India. The eight-decade-old monthly magazine has a history of informed debate on architecture, interiors, art and design. The Indian edition, the first Domus exclusively in the English language, seeks to encourage and promote innovation in the built environment.
Domus has been brought to India by Spenta Multimedia, India's largest custom publisher. It aims to track and review the latest architectural and artistic movements in India and the world through its exciting content and rich visuals.

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