The Book “Architectures of Transition – Emergent practices of South Asia” is co-written by Rahul Mehrotra, Devashree Shah and Pranav Thole. It intertwines a compilation illustrating the architecture of south Asia. The Architectures of Transition had six major components: A lecture series, publication, podcasts, a conference, Digital archive and travelling exhibition, which captures the research.
This book is one of the three parts of the lecture series. It facilitates inter and intra – generational conversation among the pioneers, practicing architects, students and academics in the South Asia. The idea behind this book was to create a platform for the young emerging architects. An Idea to make the position of emerging studio, to expand their network and to push the intellectual boundaries.
Published by the Altrim Publishers, the book is a collection of detailed information of each project. The book unleashes the most recent and advanced stage of work which is highly reflective and inventive. Architectures of Transition covers many of the inspiring work by the emerging practices. It reflects their fresh ideas, their response to constrains and challenges faced by them through the different regions of South Asia.
It is an endeavor to read about the architecture of emergent practices in south asia. Furthermore the book throws light on different methodology, new technology and the amalgamation of vernacular architectural techniques and modern techniques. It helps one to get insights on how today’s practioners approaches the social and humane aspects of architecture.
The publication includes contextualization of each practice. Each project also has a graphical analysis in the form of plans, sections and pictures of each architectural building. Which makes the book a captivating and interesting read.
Architectures of Transition holds a reader attention with its focus on varied projects of prominent architects from India, Bangladesh and Sri lanka. Capturing some studies from Pakistan and Afghanistan focusing on the public area having a play of socio-religious dynamics in the region. Taking in the composition of cultural and ethnic architecture style form the region of Nepal and Bhutan. The book takes in such varied regions having different cultural influence, having different climatology, different geological context and bringing it together, making it easy to understand and compare each typology of the architecture.
To conclude, Architectures of Transition captivates readers in understanding the different design strategies taken into consideration for each project. The publication showcases through such projects of how young architects and designers and emerging practioners understands each community, their lifestyle and the geographical context for their project. This talks about how the future of architecture looks like in the south Asia.
Text By: Shagun Shah
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