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un-built project - Domestic water cycle. © Sanjay Prakash

An Un-built Project Is Reborn In The Desert

Sanjay Prakash, Managing Principal of SHiFt, writes about his unbuilt project that shaped SHiFt’s design philosophy, serving as prototype that informed future work. Decades later, IIT Jodhpur embodied these evolved ideas, highlighting unbuilt designs’ enduring role in architectural innovation.

National War Memorial. © Sudipto Ghosh, Riyaz Tayyibji

Meditations on the Unbuilt as Refuge

Architects Anupama Kundoo and Shimul Javeri Kadri, in conversation with Khushru Irani, converse about how visionary architectural projects often remain unbuilt due to resistance and constraints, yet these “unbuilt” works serve as vital repositories of future possibility, requiring architects to practice patience and maintain transformative vision across generations.

Dune (unreleased film) H. R. Giger - [the strange power of unseen films]. Source Wikifandom

The Strange Power of Unseen Films

With the relevancy of unbuilt expanding to other arts forms, Saachi D’Souza ventures into “Unseen Films” that have either been banned, lost, or unfinished, and yet continue to profoundly influence cinema through and in their absence, define cultural boundaries more powerfully than many released films.

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Unbuilt - Cinema. Mukta, the Odia version. Source - Orissa Post, 2019 (2)

In the Shadow Light of Unbuilt – and Lost – Cinema

Godavar, in his essay about the unfinished and lost films, focusses on how these incomplete works offer glimpses into unrealised creative visions and possibilities. While digital restoration and AI present new opportunities, he presents the beauty and the ability of unfinished cinema to inspire imagination and alternative storytelling.

un-built project - Domestic water cycle. © Sanjay Prakash

An Un-built Project Is Reborn In The Desert

Sanjay Prakash, Managing Principal of SHiFt, writes about his unbuilt project that shaped SHiFt’s design philosophy, serving as prototype that informed future work. Decades later, IIT Jodhpur embodied these evolved ideas, highlighting unbuilt designs’ enduring role in architectural innovation.

Unbuilt Vol 1.0

The book features 54 inspiring yet unbuilt architecture ideas by Indian architects, and nine intriguing essays on the theme contributed by professionals and academicians. The first ever book to celebrate the value of unbuilt Indian architecture.

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Rupali Gupte

Rupali Gupte is an architect and urbanist based in Mumbai, Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) and a partner at BARDStudio. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, story telling, teaching, curation, walks and spatial interventions.

Her works include extensive research on contemporary Indian urbanism with a focus on architecture and built environment; tactical practices; housing; and urban form. In 2013, she co-founded the School of Environment and Architecture (sea.edu.in). SEA is envisaged as an experimental academic space for research and education in architecture and urbanism. She has a wide range of publications, has delivered lectures and been on juries across the world. Her works in collaboration with her partner Prasad Shetty, have been shown in several exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, X Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, at Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and at galleries such as Project 88, Devi Art Foundation and the Mumbai Art Room. She has recently curated an exhibition involving artists and architects titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture’ at the Jawahar Kala Kendra.

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