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- Author: Rahul Mehrotra, Rajesh Vora, Kate Cahill
- ISBN: 978-3966800075
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Working in Mumbai By Rahul Mehrotra (RMA Architects)
Working in Mumbai is a critical reflection on thirty years of the practice of (Rahul Mehtota Architect) RMA Architects.
Rahul Mehrotra weaves a narrative to connect
his multiple engagements in architectural practice, including teaching,
research, documenting, writing, and exhibiting since the establishment of the
practice in 1990.
The
book is structured around the subjects of interior architecture, critical
conservation, and work and living spaces that straddle the binaries of the
global and the local as well as the rural and the urban.
While
the book is a portfolio of the selected works of Rahul Mehrotra Architects,
the
projects are curated to unravel and clarify the challenges faced by architects
in India and in several parts of the “majority” world where issues related to
rapid urbanization and the impacts of global capital are among the many that
dispute conventional models of practice.
Working
in Mumbai is used emblematically to interrogate the notion of context and
understand how the practice evolved through its association with the city of
Bombay/Mumbai.
“This
well-illustrated record of the last 30 years of the exceptional practice of (Rahul
Mehtota Architect) RMA Architects, founded in Mumbai by Mehrotra in 1990, is as
the architect insists, critical documentation rather than a monograph, so
that from the outset it not only documents the work but also accounts for the
context which gave rise to its existence.
At the same time, it clearly indicates how the practice has evolved from designing
a whole series of quintessentially urban interiors in interstitial fabric to
the of major civic works such as the Tata Institute of Social Science at
Tulapur of 2004 and, more recently, the Lilavati Library at the CEPT campus in
Ahmedabad of 2017.
What is remarkable about Rahul Mehrotra
and his Indian practice,
is
his insistence that the architect must fully embrace the political implications
of the métier and that to this end the architect, as a public intellectual,
must serve both as an engaged designer and as an advocate of certain critical
policies rather than other often more expedient solutions often opted for by
the society at large.
Within
what is already an extraordinary rich Indian modern tradition this consummate the practice represents the very best of the post-Nehru generation of Indian
architects emerging today as a model of what the profession should aspire to
worldwide in today’s anthropogenic environment.” -- Kenneth B. Frampton
About
The Author
Rahul
Mehrotra is a practicing architect, urban designer, and educator. He is Chair
of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and the John T. Dunlop Professor
in Housing and Urbanization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).
Rahul
Mehrotra founded his Mumbai- and Boston-based firm (Rahul Mehtota Architect) RMA Architects in 1990.
(Rahul
Mehtota Architect) RMA Architects has
designed and executed projects in India and across the world, including
government and private institutions, corporate workplaces, private homes,
social housing, retail and art spaces, as well as conservation and restoration
projects.
In
2018, RMA Architects received the Venice Architecture Biennale Jury’s ‘Special
Mention’ for “three projects that address issues of intimacy and empathy,
gently diffusing social boundaries and hierarchies.” The projects of RMA
Architects will be published as a book titled “Working in Mumbai” in 2020.
Since
2014, Rahul Mehrotra has been a member of the CICA ― the International
Committee of Architectural Critics. He is also a member of the Steering
Committee of the Laxmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard.
Rahul
Mehrotra Studied at CEPT University, Ahmedabad
where he received the gold medal for his undergraduate thesis (1985) and graduated with a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) degree with distinction from Harvard University (1987).
At Harvard GSD, Rahul Mehrotra has served as
Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design (2010-2015 and 2020 to
date); the Director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design Degree
Program; and the Co-Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban
Design Degree Program (2018 to date).
He has also taught at the University of
Michigan (2003-2007) and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007-2010).
Working in
Mumbai By Rahul Mehrotra Architects (RMA Architects)
DESIGN BOOKS | |
Format | Hardcover |
No. of Pages | 352 |
Item Weight | 3.7 pounds |
Dimenstion | 25,2 x 29,6 cm |