Architecture Off-Centre
53 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsArchitecture Off-Centre highlights unconventional design practices and research projects, which reflect various emerging discourses within the design discipline and beyond. Hosted by architect Vaissnavi Shukl, the podcast features engaging conversations with exceptionally creative individuals, who, in their practice, have extrapolated the traditional fields of architecture, planning, landscape and urban design to unexplored frontiers.
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On Architecture + Medicine / Diana Anderson
February 08, 2024 16:33 - 38 minutes - 44 MBFor our final episode for this season, we speak to doctor and architect Diana Anderson, who has skillfully carved a unique career path for herself as a “dochitect” – by pioneering a collaborative, evidence-based model for approaching healthcare from the medicine and architecture fields simultaneously. Dr. Diana Anderson is a triple boarded professional – healthcare architect, internist, and a geriatrician. She is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University, and a recipient of ...
On Medical Tourism along the US-Mexico Border / Viviane Clement
January 12, 2024 13:21 - 32 minutes - 39.4 MBIn our previous episode, we got an overview of medical tourism around the world and the key factors that drive people to travel from one country to another for medical treatments and procedures. Today, we take a closer look at some of the medical tourism hubs along a very specific geographic area, i.e., the US-Mexico border. Viviane Clement is an epidemiologist and a cultural Anthropologist whose research focuses on the macro and micro effects of health and environmental policies and poli...
On Medical Tourism / Valorie Crooks
December 28, 2023 16:33 - 44 minutes - 48.7 MBMedical tourism is a rapidly growing industry that has emerged out of people’s need to travel across country borders to access medical treatments and procedures. In order to understand this global movement, we need to understand the reason for travel, the destinations that attract individuals and the web of factors that shape this global industry. Dr. Valorie Crooks is a health geographer who specializes in health services research. She is a Professor at Simon Fraser University where she a...
On Spaces for Mental Health / James Leadbitter
December 07, 2023 10:49 - 33 minutes - 40.1 MBWhat is your idea of good mental health? What does it taste like? What does it smell like? What does it sound like? What does it feel like to touch? And if you could design your own safe space, what would it look like? What would you have in it? James Leadbitter, also known as The Vacuum Cleaner, is a UK based artist and activist who makes candid, provocative and playful work. Drawing on his own experience of mental health disability, he works with groups including young people, health pro...
On the Architecture of Disability / David Gissen
November 23, 2023 17:26 - 43 minutes - 41.9 MBIt has been a while since architects have been attempting to address various forms of disability in the buildings, neighborhoods and cities they design. However, these attempts are most often limited to increasing access for differently abled bodies. Our guest today, David Gissen, argues that a disability critique of architecture is not one that solely seeks to make the built environment more accessible but instead understands how embedded the ideas of physical incapacity and impairment are ...
On Death in the Digital Age / Oreet Ashery
November 09, 2023 16:03 - 36 minutes - 40.8 MBWe don’t talk about the technical and logistical aspects of death enough. For example: How does one’s economic status affect the conditions in which they die? Do gender identities play a role in how people receive end of life care? Can we choose the memories that we want to leave behind for our loved ones? And how does social media become an archive of one’s life after passing? We speak to artist Oreet Ashery about death in the digital age. Oreet Ashery is a visual artist whose practice na...
On Menstruation Rooms in the Benin Kingdom / Minne Atairu
October 26, 2023 15:55 - 26 minutes - 30 MBHistorically, many communities around the world spatialized the bodily function of menstruation and integrated it within their architecture in the form of menstruation huts – often leading to the isolation and oppression of women as impure beings. Our guest today argues that these spaces in the west African Benin Kingdom were intentionally designed for women to rest and recuperate – that the isolation rooms were essentially spas. Minne Atairu is an interdisciplinary artist whose research-...
On Drawing the Bombay Plague / Ranjit Kandalgaonkar
October 12, 2023 05:47 - 40 minutes - 46.3 MBOver a century ago in 1896, the bubonic plague broke out in colonial Bombay. While the British officials maintained detailed records of the various aspects of the plague, local newspapers reported on the public sentiment towards the disease and its colonial management. Ranjit Kandalgaonkar explored one such archive to draw out a subaltern narrative of the bubonic plague. Ranjit Kandalgaonkar lives and works in Mumbai and his art practice primarily comprises of a lens directed at the urban ...
On Care Environments / Fiona Kenney
September 28, 2023 15:07 - 34 minutes - 40.2 MBThe discourse on care within the field of architecture has recently been gaining a lot of traction as ideas about health are expanding beyond the limits of traditional hospitals. In this conversation with Fiona Kenney, we discuss the history of long-term care facilities, residential hospices and pediatric respite centers, and how they differ from institutions that are aimed at providing cure. Fiona L. Kenney is a PhD candidate at the McGill University School of Architecture, where she stud...
Introducing Season 5: On Care, Health, Medicine
September 24, 2023 13:56 - 5 minutes - 7.26 MBEver since the pandemic, questions and concerns over the human body and the public health have heightened. We wanted to ensure that the conversations we would have with our guests went beyond our experience of the last three years. Some of the questions we ask this season are: Can we look at the role of architecture for providing care beyond the design of hospitals? What are the ways in which medical tourism defines entire cities? How do we shape our environment to foster healthy living – ...
On The Hunger Museum / Abby Leibman
March 31, 2023 16:24 - 32 minutes - 36.4 MBWe explored the themes of agriculture, food and waste in season 4 but did not get into too much detail about the idea of hunger, which is caused by the lack of food. For this bonus episode, we speak to Abby Leibman, who was at the forefront of conceptualizing The Hunger Museum - a virtual museum that takes a deep dive into the history of hunger and how it can be ended. Abby J. Leibman has been President & CEO of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger since 2011. She has a distinguished record ...
On Seeds, Soil and Life / Vandana Shiva
February 24, 2023 03:59 - 41 minutes - 42.7 MBFor this season’s final episode, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Vandana Shiva about the fears, concerns and anxieties of a young architect. Dr. Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmentalist, ecofeminist, writer and activist. She is the founder of Navdanya, a national movement in India to protect the diversity and integrity of indigenous seeds along with the promotion of organic farming and fair trade. To learn more about her work at Navdanya: https://www.navdanya.org/
On Grain Silos / Ateya Khorakiwala
February 10, 2023 16:31 - 45 minutes - 51.9 MBParts of Ateya Khorakiwala’s doctoral research focused on grain silos in India and how they were a post-colonial import - built not just for the purpose of creating food security after witnessing one of the worst famines in the country but also to serve as a currency for exchange. In this conversation, Ateya talks about the history of silos, its construction materials and her course Feasting and Fasting at Columbia University. Ateya Khorakiwala is an architectural historian and is Assistan...
On Farmers’ Protest in India / Sarover Zaidi
January 27, 2023 02:35 - 28 minutes - 32.9 MBThree farm laws passed by the Parliament of India in 2020 received major pushback from farmers around the country - with many of them mobilizing in Punjab and heading to the capital New Delhi. The protest site at the border village of Singhu outside Delhi turned into a mini-city of sorts with the Sikh farmers operating community kitchens and serving meals to thousands of people every day, including the policemen watching over the very barricades that restricted their entry into Delhi. Saro...
On Pixel Farming / Lenora Ditzler
January 12, 2023 15:30 - 48 minutes - 41.5 MBA few weeks before the COVID lockdowns began in 2020, Rem Koolhaas’ much awaited exhibition Countryside opened in The Guggenheim museum in New York. It was in the exhibition’s thick but small pocket size handbook that I first came across Lenora Ditzler’s essay on pixel farming; a very innovative method of farming that questions the widespread monoculture and shows us a new way of looking at agriculture by dividing a farm into smaller pixels. Lenora Ditzler works at the Farm Systems Ecology...
On Urban Food Deserts / Jane Battersby
December 29, 2022 17:47 - 33 minutes - 28.3 MBThe idea of food deserts was not known to me a few years ago. I recognized my privilege in having access to nutritious fresh food but still had a lot to learn about how certain areas are devoid of that basic necessity because of planning policies, politics and economic factors. Jane Battersby is an urban geographer based at the University of Cape Town with an interest in all things food related, with a particular focus on the African context. Her work focusses on the interactions between u...
On Delhi Agro-City 2050 / Depanshu Gola
December 15, 2022 17:54 - 37 minutes - 45.7 MBThe world of speculative design affords us the liberty of approaching urban planning through lenses we would have conventionally disregarded as overly ambitious or impractical. In today’s conversation, we think out loud about unused garden spaces outside malls, the function of terrace gardens and farmers as service providers. Depanshu Gola co-runs a research-backed design studio, Architecture for Dialogue (AfD) with Abhimanyu Singhal. His work at AfD explores the future of architecture and...
On Food, Fun and Follies / Rory Fraser
December 01, 2022 18:05 - 42 minutes - 48.3 MBThe first time I heard the word “folly” was in relation to Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette in Paris – the large park with dozens of red structures strategically organized in a grid – each embodying the principles of deconstruction. I had been fascinated with the relevance and functionality of follies and even more amused by the lack of its typology. On graduation from Oxford, Rory Fraser wrote and illustrated his first book Follies: An Architectural Journey, which he then presented a...
On Innovating with Food Waste / Rob Nicoll
November 17, 2022 16:27 - 28 minutes - 32.9 MBIf you are a fan of eating potato fries, you would have never guessed that the potato waste generated in the process of making those fries could be used to make consumer products! Rob Nicoll is the co-founder of Chip[s] Board, a company previously known for developing a sustainable polymer called Parblex and is currently developing eco conscious lactic acid by utilizing waste produced from industrial food manufacturing. While the company has moved away from their focus on polymers they bel...
On Seed Sovereignty in Mexico / Adriana David
November 03, 2022 15:45 - 50 minutes - 56.8 MBHow often do we really think about where our food comes from? I don’t mean the supermarket or the vegetable vendor where we buy it from but the place where it is grown or the kind of seeds that are sown and everything that concerns the cycle of crops and the resources that are involved in the production of food. It is not until someone explicitly forces us to think about the origin of our food that we give it any attention. Adriana David’s work lies at the intersection of architecture and ...
Introducing Season 4: On Agriculture, Food and Waste
October 20, 2022 15:55 - 4 minutes - 6.33 MBDo you know where your food comes from? Is it grown in a farm on the outskirts of your city or flown in from another country? How is food security different from food sovereignty? What happens to the waste that is generated in the process of consumption? And how can cities be planned with a food-sensitive approach? These are some of the questions we ask in season 4 of Architecture Off-Centre while speaking to artists, scientists, planners, and activists to map the contemporary concerns in ...
Introducing Season 4: On Agriculture, Food, Waste
October 20, 2022 15:55 - 4 minutes - 6.33 MBDo you know where your food comes from? Is it grown in a farm on the outskirts of your city or flown in from another country? How is food security different from food sovereignty? What happens to the waste that is generated in the process of consumption? And how can cities be planned with a food-sensitive approach? These are some of the questions we ask in season 4 of Architecture Off-Centre while speaking to artists, scientists, planners, and activists to map the contemporary concerns in ...
On Building a Museum of Conflict / Avni Sethi
June 16, 2022 07:19 - 32 minutes - 38.7 MBOn a Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago, I drove eastwards to the old city of Ahmedabad to interview Avni Sethi at the Conflictorium, a museum of conflict housed in a 100-something year old building. We talked about her being a cultural practitioner, who foregrounds the issues of caste, violence and oppression in a city with a painful history of riots. We also discussed their exhibits, ongoing thematic inquiries, the function of repetition in public dissent and the potential of museums in bein...
On Designing Out Crime / Lindsay Asquith
June 02, 2022 22:19 - 30 minutes - 36.8 MBWhat if we approached urban crime as a design problem and deployed our methods and skills to reframe the questions we have been asking to ameliorate – if not completely obliterate – criminal activities? The team at Designing Out Crime (DOC), a collaboration between the New South Wales Department of Community and Justice, and the University of Technology Sydney, did just that. They used research, public engagement and human-centered design to tackle a wide range of urban challenges. Dr. Lin...
On Making Public Spaces Safer / Kalpana Viswanath (Safetipin)
May 19, 2022 07:36 - 36 minutes - 41.1 MBIf you are a young woman, who has grown up in a city or travelled to another, you might have been warned about steering off certain areas of the city because they were deemed ‘not safe’. What lends safety to urban areas is not only a matter of data and statistics, but it is also often subjective – relying heavily on how one ‘feels’ while traversing through that part of the city. Dr. Kalpana Viswanath is the co-founder and CEO of Safetipin, a social enterprise that uses technology and data ...
On Auschwitz and The Evidence Room (pt. 2) / Anne Bordeleau and Donald McKay
May 05, 2022 17:53 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBSelf-explanatory in its nomenclature, The Evidence Room was first presented at the 2016 Venice Biennale as a room with architectural evidence from Auschwitz to assert the existence of the gas chambers used for committing genocide in the Nazi concentration camp. It presents three monuments – a door, a wall hatch and ladder, and a gas column along with a number of plaster casts as proofs of the crimes against humanity and underscores the culpability of architects in creating these instruments ...
On Auschwitz and The Evidence Room (pt.2) / Anne Bordeleau and Donald McKay
May 05, 2022 17:53 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBSelf-explanatory in its nomenclature, The Evidence Room was first presented at the 2016 Venice Biennale as a room with architectural evidence from Auschwitz to assert the existence of the gas chambers used for committing genocide in the Nazi concentration camp. It presents three monuments – a door, a wall hatch and ladder, and a gas column along with a number of plaster casts as proofs of the crimes against humanity and underscores the culpability of architects in creating these instruments ...
On Auschwitz and The Evidence Room (pt. 1) / Robert Jan Van Pelt
April 21, 2022 06:24 - 55 minutes - 61.8 MBIn 1996, British author and Holocaust denier David Irving filed a libel case against American historian Deborah Lipstadt, stating that she had defamed him in her book Denying the Holocaust. In what became the case, David Irving versus Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, architectural historian Robert Jan Van Pelt was brought in as the defense’s expert witness owing to his work on the history of Auschwitz. Robert Jan Van Pelt has taught at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture sin...
On the Smart Prison Project in Finland / Pia Puolakka
April 07, 2022 09:30 - 31 minutes - 35.6 MBThere are splitting views in the design profession on the role of architects in the perpetuation and even existence of prisons, which stems from an ethical and a professional belief that incarceration is not the most optimum solution to crime and that the very design of prisons creates conditions that subject the inmates to inhuman living conditions. While in the previous episode we focused an alternate method of seeking justice, for this one, we wanted to look at what is happening in the wo...
On Restorative Justice / Shailly Agnihotri
March 24, 2022 07:33 - 42 minutes - 47 MBI had no idea what restorative justice was up until two years ago. It was naïve of me to think that justice was always “served” in the courts of law – buildings with high plinths, long walkways and large rooms with the typical setup that we see on screen. And because I did not think it was possible to create spaces for conflict resolution and reconciliation outside of the courts, the first time I saw circle work being done within the restorative justice method, I was surprised by the candidn...
On Crime, Design, Storytelling and Walter Gropius / Natascha Meuser
March 10, 2022 10:54 - 36 minutes - 45.5 MBTwenty students at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences developed ideas for crime stories to shed new light on the workers’ estate designed by Walter Gropius in Törten between 1926 and 1928. Led by Professor Natascha Meuser, this unorthodox approach to teaching helped the students gain a deeper understanding of the world-famous row houses and became the genesis of ‘The Törten Project: Murder and Crime Mysteries from a Bauhaus Estate’. Natascha Meuser is an architect and publisher based i...
On a Burglar’s Guide to the City / Geoff Manaugh
February 24, 2022 13:25 - 41 minutes - 48.3 MBWhile the intentions of architects and burglars are diametrically opposite in nature – with the former designing for safety, and the later breaching it through the very design aimed to protect, the single common thread between the two is how they foreground architecture in their operations. All of a sudden, storm water drains, vaults, staircases, parking lots, terraces and retaining walls become conduits for escorting large amounts of cash and gold bars out of the buildings. Geoff Manaugh is...
Introducing Season 3: On Violence, Crime, Justice
February 17, 2022 07:07 - 5 minutes - 7.07 MBJeremy Bentham’s panopticon got me thinking about the function of design in exercising power and control in society – even though rotundas preceded the panopticon and contemporary prisons have since evolved into newer typologies. I dug deeper and immersed myself in the vast pool of knowledge existing around the themes of violence, punishment, surveillance and crime – awkwardly jumping from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish to Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. While ...
On Havelis of Lahore / Rabeeya Arif
December 16, 2021 09:12 - 29 minutes - 33.9 MB“There is this informal inhabitation of spaces of heritage within the walled city that actually subverted the original intent of the buildings, however, they helped in the social economic development of the spaces that were being inhabited.” The exodus that followed the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 caused one of the largest human migrations in the world and resulted in the mass abandonment of private property and structures of cultural heritage. In the walled city of Lahore, Hin...
On Monuments and Public Memory / Paul Farber (Monument Lab)
December 02, 2021 15:46 - 44 minutes - 49.5 MB“It's far easier to protest the statue than a statute, which is to say that power that lives through policy institutions embedded into practices made across generations are hard to dive into.” In our effort to question the premise of this season’s three central themes: preservation, restoration and conservation, we often came across the idea of public memory and monuments. This led us to think about what historic monuments, most frequently seen as stone statues on pedestals, signify in the...
On Architecture and Journalism / Inga Saffron
November 18, 2021 06:16 - 46 minutes - 53.5 MB“It's really hard to preserve the community. Easier to preserve buildings.” Our guest today is a writer and uses the power of the written word to raise awareness, drive change and create accountability. She often writes about preservation – most notably focusing on the African-American history of Philadelphia and how cultural and historic preservation lock horns with urban planning. Inga Saffron has spent 30 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, working as a reporter, foreign correspondent...
On Facadism / Clemency Gibbs
November 04, 2021 05:51 - 39 minutes - 45.8 MB“But if all you can see is this frozen façade, that's the period that you're choosing to keep the public appearance of the building as, which doesn't really create any meaningful dialogue between the old and the new.” Facadism or facadism practices, as Clemency Gibbs refers to them, stand for “privileging of the façade above other aspects of the building, within the context of development.” There is an intriguing conservation practice where entire buildings are gutted for (re)development b...
On Pyaavs of Mumbai / Rahul Chemburkar
October 21, 2021 08:12 - 40 minutes - 42.4 MB“Pyaavs today really could be instigators and facilitators mainly as drinking water fountains [but] at the same time also create a cultural connect and socio-cultural tourism.” Not too long before potable water became a commodity that could be bought and sold, its presence in the Indian urban infrastructure as drinking water fountains – or pyaavs as they are known in Mumbai – was closely associated with altruism and public memory. Our guest, Rahul Chemburkar, is on a mission to restore the...
On Stained Glass Conservation / Brianne Van Vorst
October 07, 2021 11:51 - 39 minutes - 47.7 MB“Rather than restoration, we're not changing the object [in conservation], we're retaining the object, even with all of its marks of age.” I was taught that one of the identifiers of gothic architecture along with the flying buttresses, the pointed arches and the gargoyles – was the stained glass windows. But that was pretty much all I knew and thought about the stained glass – it was an element in the gothic cathedrals. Brianne’s preservation practice highlights stained glass not only as ...
On Culture and Urban Regeneration / Ranajay Chand
September 23, 2021 03:36 - 30 minutes - 38.3 MB“It’s part city beautiful movement, part preservation, part making the city more walkable and just creating like a nice civic space that people can enjoy.” This summer, my friend Ranajay invited me to spend a weekend in Rajpipla and promised to show me some really good buildings – not quite telling me at first that he belonged to the royal family of Rajpipla and that his ancestors had commissioned the buildings that we were going to see. We spoke extensively about patronage, culture, gentr...
On a Counter-monument in London / Elliot Nash
September 09, 2021 08:48 - 36 minutes - 42.9 MB“I started to design things that might catch passersby or the weather, the things that aren't normally remembered...” The act of building a counter-monument is an oxymoron in itself. Artists and architects around the world have used voids to create these counter-monuments while challenging the notion of physically building spaces to retain public memory. Elliot Nash’s project 'Forgetting Whitehall; Casting Blackhall' subverts traditional methods of physical and non-physical preservation wh...
Introducing Season 2: On Restoration, Conservation, Preservation
September 03, 2021 05:26 - 4 minutes - 6.06 MBAfter a few weeks of restructuring and lots of planning, Season 2 of Architecture Off-Centre is ready to go live! On this season, we are focusing our attention on the ideas of preservation, restoration and conservation in the built environment by posing a simple question: what does it mean to conserve, restore and preserve something in the contemporary context?
On Public Art, Activism and Urbanism / Matthew Mazzotta
June 03, 2021 09:48 - 44 minutes - 53.8 MB“Let's make it so intriguing, so curious that people have to come into these ideas of their own volition.” Have you ever seen a storefront opening up as a theatre? Or a dilapidated house becoming a community event space? Or ever dined on an unfolding table that serves food from plants on the verge of extinction? What about a lamp post that is lit by converting dog poop into electricity? If you know any of these projects, you are probably familiar with Matthew Mazzotta’s work. Matthew Maz...
On Revolutionizing the Construction Industry / Acelab (Vardhan and Dries)
May 20, 2021 16:40 - 31 minutes - 31.1 MB“I was told that you go to the US to learn the more innovative and technologically driven ways of practicing. But that was simply not the case.” If you have ever worked on a construction project and had a hard time searching for and specifying building products, you will be relieved to know that Acelab co-founders Vardhan Mehta and Dries Carmeliet are trying to ease the workflow and make your life easier. They are also leading by example on how to branch out into the business world as arch...
On National Identity, Architecture and Crisis
May 06, 2021 04:11 - 13 minutes - 17 MB“Projects such as the Central Vista underscore the agency of architecture for ‘those that govern us’—and how, misleading or not, design itself can construe the image of the nation.” The juxtaposition of New Delhi’s Central Vista project over the ongoing public health crisis in India has raised several questions regarding the relationship between political power and architecture. In this episode, Architecture Off-Centre host Vaissnavi Shukl reads an excerpt from her graduate thesis titled L...
On Set Design in Hollywood / Tim Croshaw
April 22, 2021 04:14 - 52 minutes - 69.6 MB“What is the camera? It's a surrogate for the human eye.” If you’ve ever watched a Hollywood super-hero film and wondered what goes on in the making of it or thought about who designs the submarines and the palaces and the spacecrafts or even questioned what it takes to design spaces for a camera, set designer Tim Croshaw will answer all of it as he takes us through his world of film-making in Hollywood. Tim Croshaw is a Specialist Set Designer who has collaborated in art departments on ...
On Video Games and Virtual Worlds / Alina Nazmeeva
April 08, 2021 05:12 - 59 minutes - 66.3 MB“Virtual worlds in a game enable certain things which are harder to make in the physical space, but they also, in many ways, continue the heuristics of physical space like navigation.” Video games today touch upon discourses on virtual economies, the metaverse and the social element in online games. Alina Nazmeeva’s work investigates the relationship between cities and digital games, interfaces and public, CGI and politics. Alina Nazmeeva graduated from the Master of Science in Urbanism ...
On Design Diplomacy in Afghanistan / Francisco Brown
March 25, 2021 06:49 - 50 minutes - 49.1 MB“Understand that your mission was the building… That at the end of the day, your politics or your own sense of values, might never meet the middle point, I sat down to negotiate the existence of our building, [otherwise] they will blow the whole thing up.” In its efforts to build new infrastructure with foreign aid, Afghanistan, as a post-conflict nation, welcomed international organizations and assistance from other countries. Francisco Brown worked in Kabul for half a decade, designing a...
On Birth Centres, Midwifery and the Female Body / Cristina Alonso
March 11, 2021 05:57 - 36 minutes - 38.8 MB“It really has to do with designing services around women and women's lives… For us as women, we live our lives inside our bodies…” Cristina Alonso is a midwife, who believes that all women can make informed choices about their bodies and lives. She advocates for the design of a healthcare system that serves women where they are and in a way that makes sense to them. Cristina Alonso is a midwife specializing in out of hospital care. She founded the Luna Maya Midwifery Centers in Mexico t...
On Reincarnating Indian Cities / Karan Saharya
February 25, 2021 01:52 - 48 minutes - 49.1 MB“The evolution of cities is barely ever linear and gradual. It follows an almost cyclical pattern of development that is highly influenced by political and religious currents.” Karan Saharya recently co-taught a course called Reincarnating Cities with Vaissnavi Shukl, where he took a deep dive into the changing architectural articulations of heritage, nationalism and religiosity in the contemporary Indian urban space. Karan Saharya graduated with a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard ...