princeton conference

it was at the end of the america trip that i finally got to the real reason for the visit- the conference/ symposium at princeton. gyan and mario had organized this conversation between architects from mumbai and architects from brazil on ‘city as home and home as infrastructure.’ prasad, rupali, rahul, matias and i represented mumbai speaking of informality, housing, and domesticity. the brazilians spoke of their cities- rio and sao paolo. distant places were evoked and stories were told in a room far away from both though mario did try and speak of the american landscape too. princeton itself was lovely in bright cold light and red fall colours. the venturi building a collage of signs upon a red brick base- a pretend city with many doorway and styles all juxtaposed against one another. besides this, the gehry library shards and swirls.