recap - the week that was mine - for all who care

fourth year jurors - shirish patel, adolf streggler, pk das in between the backs of nikita and swati

three action packed days.. fourth year juries were disappointing on monday- though the kids had tried really hard (at least i thought) somehow the work fell way short. mayuri prital and namrata’s projects were the ones i really liked.. housing is not easy to talk about though the jurors tried- the jurors being - adolf streggler- a vatican priest now working in the slums of the city, shirish patel- esteemed structural engineer with a case in court regarding regulation 33/7 (the basis for the project) and p k das –who i think by now is designing every part of the city in collaboration with someone or the other..

third year juries the next day.. the alang promotional cell project.. jurors- kapil gupta, rajeev thakker, quaid doongerwala and percy from 4x4.. in spite of my reservations about the y’know childishness of the class – i thought the work was better than expected. stars- mishkat (just for its attempt to try and create architecture that can have so many multiple meanings- a little like saurabh's thesis) , shriya (perhaps), dipti (she cant to nothing wrong), mohare (the radio towers did it for me).

wednesday i cant remember- that’s why i keep the blog- or days go by and they vanish.. with no record.. i don’t know why but i think twenty years form now i might want to know which silly film i was watching at what time in my life.. therefore sweethearts, at the risk of this becoming an extremely boring read.. i must write / record.. sorry..

the only thing I remember is that we went for dinner with dads friend kesari and his wife at ‘all stir fry’ at the Gordon house hotel in town.. the open kitchen ‘street side style’ wok in a white minimalist building.

dad and jayashree at 'all stir fry'

thursday meetings in town- first ‘usaid’ at the american center in churchgate where they made us feel like terrorists and/or beggars, checking us, rechecking us- paul, amisha and me.. and paul dutifully lost his visitors batch and was sent scampering off to find it again.. eco-house project they call it- with all the right buzz words that mean very little.. we hope to make them have meaning in a project to be developed.

and meeting no 2- 33/7 studio with 4 other colleges in the city.. 6 of our students.. mayuri, kalpit, neha panchal, pooja shah, lubaina, yagnik.. we seem to be the only ones doing any work and think the studio needs to move to our college now. it is about time. then 'nishat' at carmichael road where we selected wash basins for the bathroom and back with mayuri and kalpit who entertained with the behind the scenes love affairs of the class..

today was moving day.. ranjit helped with the driving and the lifting- my back still sucks. buckets, garbage cans, soap, jhaadoos, curtains, bedsheets, and other such paraphernalia for setting up house.. a frightening thought.. the place is turning out totally chilled .. now we need to find some work..

froggie in the office