Domus India - November 2014

In dieser Ausgabe

The November 2014 issue begins the fourth annual cycle for Domus India, and in this issue we review the nature and role of a magazine within its field of operation; in our case, that being architecture and design, which draws from, as well as extends into art, visual culture and city studies. Understanding that Domus India was, in a way, a library of time for the field of architecture in India, as well as a homing cabinet, every issue is a 'cabinet of ideas and arguments' on display, on exhibition... to shape itself into a provisional book - a provisional book rewritten and redrawn, or extended and expanded, every next issue. We begin our fourth year with this revisiting of the library, opening wide the doors of the cabinet, and pulling out parts of objects that are still there, leftovers, and new growths on older objects... trying to understand what has been the body and life of architecture in the past of present time.
Making a list of ideas and stories from which keywords emerge, the lexicon feature is a map, for time-now, and its ingredients, and stories, could be juggled to shape out a new map - a landscape of floating meanings and words that shape our time and geography - but through substantiated methodologies and processes; like in a kaleidoscope, where random broken pieces of glass constantly form new constellations, but only within strict geometry and measure, which comes from the logic of a mirrors in a particular structural logic. In this issue we bring the first part of this Lexicon-Kaleidoscope. We also focus on campus designs - two are corporate campuses, and one, a school for architecture and design. These three projects - a Software Development Campus in Hyderabad, a research building for the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru, and the BRICK School of architecture near Pune - as they sit next to each other, raise very critical questions on architectural language, its intentions, and behaviour in the contemporary world.