Can an architectural firm truly explore the possibilities of a transcendent and spiritual character in architecture? For Chandigarh-based, award-winning practice, Charged Voids, this happens to be the underlying philosophy for any work they take up. Lead by Aman Aggarwal, his idea behind the architectural firm was to create a purposeful dialogue between western modernism and elements of Indian architecture. In fact, he named the practice Charged Voids to celebrate the 'in-between'-the transitional spaces in the built environment. "The negative space or the voids that define a spatial mass are one of the underlying inspirations for our practice," says the 40-year-old architect.
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My architecture and design journey has been quite incidental, having grown up in Chandigarh, the Mecca of modernist architecture. This allowed me to experience the city and the iconic legacy of Le Corbusier in-depth, even before I could comprehend, the impact great architecture can have on us.
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