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Curators Rupali Gupte, Bijoy Ramachandran, and Ruturaj Parikh, of the book “Unbuilt 2.0: Architecture of Future Collectives”, explore cooperative spatial alternatives that challenge individualistic design, emphasizing ecological repair, temporal flexibility, and architecture as social infrastructure for emerging collective forms of living. through this conversation.
Ruturaj Parikh, for his epilogue for Unbuilt 1.0, writes about how the unbuilt architectural projects in India reveal ideological positions and cultural values more clearly than built work, representing important discourse on housing, urban design, and civic spaces beyond commercial concerns.
Rupali Gupte argues that fiction serves as a powerful but underutilised tool in architectural education and practice, capable of challenging conventional design thinking and opening up new spatial possibilities beyond the constraints of everyday functionality.
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Rahoul B. Singh elaborates on how the unbuilt architectural projects represent a pure disciplinary essence, serving as archives of ideas and zeitgeist before external collaboration compromises, revealing architecture’s evolving practice methods and conceptual ambitions.
Unbuilt architectural projects, often conceptualized in defiance of prevailing norms and popular aesthetic sensibilities, serve as crucial historical artifacts. Suprio Bhattacharjee explores these “Anti-Practice” visions that function not merely as speculative designs but as potent critiques of established architectural and societal paradigms. Their significance lies in their capacity to interrogate historical, political, and socio-cultural contexts, thereby stimulating critical discourse and fostering future architectural innovation.
Sanjitha Suresh’s article delves into the phenomenon of unbuilt and cancelled architectural endeavours not as mere setbacks or diversions, but as significant reflections of ambition, political contexts, economic transformations, and evolving cultural values.
Curators Rupali Gupte, Bijoy Ramachandran, and Ruturaj Parikh, of the book “Unbuilt 2.0: Architecture of Future Collectives”, explore cooperative spatial alternatives that challenge individualistic design, emphasizing ecological repair, temporal flexibility, and architecture as social infrastructure for emerging collective forms of living. through this conversation.
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Ruturaj Parikh, for his epilogue for Unbuilt 1.0, writes about how the unbuilt architectural projects in India reveal ideological positions and cultural values more clearly than built work, representing important discourse on housing, urban design, and civic spaces beyond commercial concerns.
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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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