third year juries . shastri nagar. aparnas birthday

when architecture is made so easy, with the removal of all referents; or when the referent is so loosely defined as a confusing concept- or as a masterwork that’s perceived as being beyond analysis; or even when the work itself has gone beyond ‘being’ into the space of the transcendental; there is no other choice left but to dwell in the non-space of geometry. random choices are necessitated by a classic two pronged trap; one the impression that emptiness is necessary for ‘creativity’ to flourish, and the other a non specific critique of an alleged master’s work. the only comments then possible are comments on the skillfulness of the craft - the drawing, the model as the representation and the column and façade as the represented. it is then no wonder that a student can choose to build a representation of the entire history of architecture from the indus valley to the ‘post-modern’ as style. subject for future research – the idea of style / fashion / treatment.

manoj’s office is on the top floor of a building in the old low and middle income residential area of shastri nagar in satnacruz. 1966 built, these slabs of housing with common verandah accesses with a courtyard in between for navratri and ganpati.

a lovely scale of buildings- now up for redevelopment.

happy birthday aparna. the cheesecake ws wonderful!