A DIALOGUE IN ARCHITECTURE HAFEEZ CONTRACTOR IN CONVERSATION WITH AKSHAT BHATT

What happens when a visionary and an icon meets? What conspires when two architects from different generations, of diverse philosophies, come together? An exchange of ideas, visions, philosophies, the future of cities, the meaning of architecture and so much more.

- SEEMA SREEDHARAN

Over the years, we've brought to you our vision of architecture and design. This issue, we decided to take a backseat, and play spectators to a conversation between two creative geniuses. We brought together an unlikely duo for this interaction - Architect Hafeez Contractor and Architect Akshat Bhatt. Their practices, their approach, their experience might be divergent, but their thoughts and their perspectives seemed to meet at many junctures. The conversation that conspired covered not just architecture and design, but also urban planning, sustainability, policies, politics, and of course, the future of Indian Habitat. What started off as a conversation between a young visionary and the architect who's credited to defining the design identity of 21st Century India soon progressed into one of the most interesting dialogues in architecture we had ever witnessed. They met for the first time, but the meeting ended with them poring over Contractor's most prized possessions - his sketchbooks that documented almost every single creative thought he had.