Domus India Magazine - January 2015

In this issue

In the Domus India March 2015 issue, we focus on the work and oeuvre of one of India’s most important architects – Raj Rewal. We review two projects. Historical essays or curatorial texts bring into focus the thematic and questions necessary for a practice and a field to ask itself. A G K Menon’s curatorial essay for the exhibition Raj Rewal: Memory, Metaphor and Meaning in his Constructed Landscape at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi takes advantage of the occasion to raise many questions on writing criticism and history of architecture in India. Also, we look at the Charles Correa Foundation – an initiative set up in Goa with a dedicated focus on research in the space of humanities, urbanities, and architecture. We also conclude the series ‘What we talk about, when we talk about design...’ Much like the word Art, Design today is also a much misused and misunderstood term, and architecture can easily escape definition all the time – hence activities and engagements such as writing, making exhibitions, and shaping curriculum are continuous steps towards a critical understanding of the field, a deep engagement, and shaping a ‘thick description’ such that practice has a vibrant and fertile bedrock to grow from, firm itself in, but also later grow out of it, and shape itself within newer plains, landscapes, and shifting grounds.