Architect Shiv Datt Sharma recalls working with Le Corbusier and E Maxwell Fry in Chandigarh and Chennai-based CN Raghavendran sees an architect as an “agent of change”. These statements from well-known names in the country have been complied into the book Architectural Voices of India – A Blend of Contemporary and Traditional Ethos (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) by architect Apurva Bose Dutta. “There are three generations and six decades covered across these 19 architects. But the point is that we are changing and that is the most practical way of doing things”. Architect Kamal Malik, nostalgic about his Himalayan childhood, presents the Lupin Research Park, Pune, as a project that redefined architecture for him.

Source: Indian Express May 27, 2018 18:22 UTC