Guardian of the built and unbuilt __ Brinda Somaya __ SNK
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Navigating conservation and social equity, Brinda Somaya reveals how these considerations blend into a position on sustainability in India. She offers a blueprint for design that is low-impact, contextual, and compassionate.
Ambrish Arora, Studio Lotus: The reflective practitioner
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Could a universal process account for all things sustainable — energy, materiality, comfort, etc. — in all typologies, from resorts to low-cost buildings? Would this work in a land as vast and complex as India?
Daliana Suryawinata and Florian Heinzelmann, SHAU: Being tropical
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Tropical architecture: is it a perspective on place or a question of performance? How can architects from nations along the equator, like Indonesia, draw on local know-how rather than imported technology?
Rahul Mehrotra, Harvard University Graduate School of Design: The kinetic city
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Cities are evolving, living systems. Why then do we design them as fixed and permanent? Is it time for a new theory of urbanism, better suited to the developing world, where urban space is often used in transient ways?