HR4000

Faculty: Catherine Desai | Chinmay Gheware

Students will learn to critically analyse buildings in order to explain their significance to undergraduate architectural students. We will study both buildings and texts, seeing each as a source of complex ideas and narratives. Each student will focus on a building selected to introduce a theme relevant to the study of twentieth century Indian architecture. The studio methodology reflects a renewed historiographic focus on the physicality of buildings and in drawing and redrawing as techniques of architectural analysis. The studio will have three parts. Firstly, the analysis of buildings through the making of strategic drawings which explore their different architectural attributes. Secondly, critical analysis of selected key texts to provide frameworks. Finally, the preparation and delivery of a short lecture. Students may attempt levels of complexity in the lecture: accurate summary and description of building and texts, or the more challenging framing of a critical position.