The Spirit of Architec ture

World Architecture day Oct 8 2012 Mumbai Renaissance Hotel & Convention Centre “Architects today tend to depreciate Architecture is the most realistic form of art. It is the art

themselves, to regard themselves as of building, of creating habitable and enjoyable spaces for

no more than just ordinary citizens living and working and playing; and it plays a role in shaping

without the power to reform the lives. Globally, the first Monday of October is celebrated as

future” – Kenzo Tange World Architecture Day. WAD, as it is popularly known, is being

celebrated for the first time ever in India!

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water fronts landscape architecture public Art “If we want moderately live able cities, we need new cities, not old ones with crumbling infrastructure and sprawling “People today are crying out for slums where land costs are simply unviable (Mumbai, for lively gathering places” example, is simply unaffordable even to the upper middle- classes). The additional 300 million people who will head for “We must not build housing, cities over the next 20 years can either cram the Mumbais we must build communities” and Delhis and Bhopals of the world” – Mike Burton public squares

“Everyday citizens recognize the value Voluminous research has recently been published on urban the health benefits of living in a walk able environment. of places where civic life flourishes Neighborhoods where kids can walk to school, for instance, reduce the risk of childhood obesity and Type and where different cultures can mix, II diabetes. Ominously, however, studies show the area outside the home that children are free to explore desigN places that heal social isolation – even unsupervised has decreased by 90% since 1970. To Today, cities everywhere are thinking more broadly buildings, to whole neighborhoods, and the city. reverse this trend and create walk-able communities, about how to gain an economic boost. Big ticket items, It is a framework that orders the elements into a if most public leaders are slow to many of the routine necessities now scattered miles like sports arenas and lavish performing arts centers, network of streets, squares, and blocks. Urban away from people’s homes ­­— schools, stores, libraries, which cities once viewed as the key to reviving their design blends architecture, landscape architecture, understand. It is always inspiring to see civic buildings — will instead need to be focused in struggling downtowns, are taking a back seat to new, and city planning together to make urban areas central places within walking distance. In other words, lower-cost, high-impact strategies to foster prosperity. functional and attractive. grassroots communities take the lead squares will be essential. More and more, public squares and urban parks, not expensive mega-projects, are emerging as the best Urban design is about making connections between on an important issue like creating new A central attraction of cities throughout the world, public way to make downtowns more livable – and not just in people and places, movement and urban form, squares not only bring economic rewards but offer depressed urban cores. nature and the built fabric. Urban design draws together public gathering places” people a comfortable spot to gather for social, cultural the many strands of place-making, environmental and political activities. They are the pulsing heart of Urban design concerns the arrangement, appearance stewardship, social equity and economic viability into a community and foster true urban sustainability. One and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the creation of places with distinct beauty and of the main reasons for the resurgence of the the shaping and uses of urban public space. Urban identity. Urban design is derived from but transcends public square is that they bring livability and many design is the art of creating and shaping cities and planning and transportation policy, architectural diverse benefits to a city – at a lower cost and greater towns. Urban design involves the arrangement and design, development economics, engineering and speed than traditional large-scale developments. design of buildings, public spaces, transport systems, landscape. It draws these and other strands together services, and amenities. Urban design is the process creating a vision for an area and then deploying the of giving form, shape, and character to groups of resources and skills needed to bring the vision to life. “Waterfronts flourish when they can be accessed Many cities today are bringing their Waterfronts back to life. Waterfronts which were used mainly for by means other than private vehicles” trade are being revitalized as “people places” as societies, and communities improve and grow. Waterfronts are an integral part of cities, their urban “Waterfronts are Mumbai’s most popular and significant landscape and contribute to a city’s vitality. Active and diverse waterfronts attract diverse crowds of people public spaces to which people from all societies flock, not and increase its longevity. Promenades, piers, landscape restaurants, bars, and retail facilities create numerous only from the city and its suburbs, but rest of India. opportunities for a variety of activities that are cultural, recreational, retail and tourism oriented. The It is a place for relaxation, entertainment and leisure. incorporation of well-designed landscapes and architecture appropriate street furniture into the infrastructure of Unfortunately ad hoc, unplanned commercialization, without the waterfront also add to its beauty. Water itself is the greatest asset of any waterfront,and should become comprehensive vision, has destroyed the environment” the centerpiece for programming and activities. water fronts

“The greatest waterfront destinations are found in “A garden path can become the thread Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor cities that truly orient themselves to the water. Venice public areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve of a plot, connecting moments environmental, social-behavioral, or aesthetic and Stockholm are defined by their waterfronts, outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of and incidents into a narrative. The existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and residents and visitors alike naturally gravitate there. and processes in the landscape, and the design of narrative structure might be a simple interventions that will produce the desired outcome. Making the most of local identity, history and culture The scope of the profession includes: urban design; chain of events with a beginning, site planning; town or urban planning; environmental stimulates widespread interest in the waterfront and restoration; parks and recreation planning; visual middle, and end” resource management; green infrastructure planning creates a unique sense of place. Frequent opportunities and provision; and private estate and residence landscape master planning and design; all at varying to appreciate local art, music and theatre helps draw scales of design, planning and management.

a community together around the waterfront” “It’s not just decoration, it’s also about engaging with the public. The role of an installation is to make people think, question, wonder and get involved. With so many excellent artists around, India seems to have absolutely nothing to showcase in its public spaces” Public art SPEAKERS

“Painting is art to look at, sculpture

is art you can walk around, and LIST

architecture is art you can walk

through” – Dan Rice

Public Art refers to works of art in any media that never enter a gallery closer to art. They also promote have been planned and executed with the specific tourism by exposing tourists to contemporary art for intention of being sited or staged in the physical free – and while on the move. public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. The term is especially significant within the art In recent years, public art has increasingly begun to world, amongst curators, commissioning bodies expand in scope and application – both into other and practitioners of public art, to whom it signifies wider and challenging areas of art form, and also a particular working practice, often with implications across a much broader range of what might be called of site specificity, community involvement and our ‘public realm’. Such cultural interventions have collaboration. The term is sometimes also applied often been realized in response to creatively engaging to include any art which is exhibited in a a community’s sense of ‘place’ or ‘well-being’ in public space including publicly accessible buildings. society. After all, a public right to experience such culture should not only be enjoyed as an optional extra, Public Art serves an important purpose – making art but is actually one of our basic human rights. accessible to people and bringing those who might K T RAVINDRAN KT Ravindran is a Professor and the Head of Urban Design at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi for over two decades. He is the founder and President of the Institute of Urban Designers - India, which is a professional association of qualified urban designers. He is a member of the academic boards of a number of universities in India and has been teaching Urban Morphology and Humanizing Cities in addition to the Urban Design Studio. He has been a regular contributor to professional magazines and newspapers CHRISTOPHER CHARLES BENNINGER in India on subjects relating to urban design, planning, Born in America in 1942, Prof. Christopher Benninger architecture and urban conservation. His practice has lived and worked in India for the past 40 years. includes design of greenfield cities, cultural buildings He studied City Planning at MIT and Architecture at and memorials, as well as Urban Conservation. He Harvard University. As an institution builder he founded was the Vice Chairman of the Environmental Impact the School of Urban Planning at CEPT, Ahmedabad in Assessment Committee of the Government of India 1971 with Balkrishna Doshi, and there after founded for the last five years, which scrutinizes large projects Ben van Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld the Centre for Development Studies and Activities all over India for their environmental fitness and Academy in and at the Architectural (CDSA) in Pune, India (1976). He has prepared city and management. Ravindran is currently The Chairman Association in London, receiving the AA Diploma with urban plans for Thane and Kalyan in India, besides of the Delhi Urban Art Commission, a statutory body Honours in 1987. In 1988 he and Caroline Bos set up an other towns in Asia. He has won the Designer of the mediating aesthetics, environment and heritage in architectural practice in Amsterdam. The Van Berkel Year award (1999) and American Institute of Architects building and development projects in Delhi. He has & Bos Architectuurbureau has realized, amongst / Architectural Record Award: 2000 for his design of been nominated as Member of the Advisory Board for others projects, the Karbouw office building, the the Mahindra United World College of India. The firm’s JAN GEHL the United Nations Capital Master Plan, a five member Erasmus Bridge in , Museum Het Valkhof in projects have been finalists in the Aga Khan Award for Jan is an Architect MAA & FRIBA, Professor Emeritus committee drawn from around the world, advising the Nijmegen, the Moebius House and the NMR facilities Architecture (2001) and the World Architecture Awards of Urban Design at the School of Architecture in Secretary General of the United Nations on the ongoing for the University of Utrecht. In 1998 Ben van Berkel UK. (2002, 2009). Prof. Benninger is on the Editorial Copenhagen. Jan has been awarded the Sir Patrick UN project in New York. His research interests include and Caroline Bos established a new firm: UNStudio Board of CITIES (U.K); and a Distinguished Professor at Abercrombie prize, for exemplary contributions to town contemporary urban history, indigenous urbanism, (United Net). UNStudio presents itself as a network CEPT, Ahmedabad. As an internationally known ‘design planning by the International Union of Architects as well vernacular building traditions and sustainability and of specialists in architecture, urban development and house’ Christopher Charles Benninger Architects create as an honorary doctorate from Heriot–Watt University urban form. He is a frequent speaker at many national infrastructure. Current projects are the restructuring of products ranging from capital cities and new towns; in Edinburgh. Jan has received honorary fellowships and international forums. the station area of Arnhem, the mixed-use Raffles City educational campuses and corporate headquarters; to the Royal Institute of British Architects (Int. FRIBA), in Hangzhou, a masterplan for Basauri, a dance theatre housing estates and complexes; hotels resorts the American Institute of Architecture (FAIA), the Royal for St. Petersburg and the design and restructuring of and hospitals. Architectural Institute of Canada, and the Planning the Harbor Ponte Parodi in Genoa. With UNStudio he Institute of Australia. Gehl’s publications include Life realized amongst others the Mercedes-Benz Museum between Buildings, Public Spaces – Public Life, and in , a façade and interior renovation for the New Urban Spaces, which have been translated into Galleria Department store in Seoul and a private villa multiple languages and published in various countries up-state New York. Ben van Berkel has lectured and across Europe, North America, and Asia. taught at many architectural schools around the world. Currently he is Professor Conceptual Design at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main and for the Spring term 2011 was awarded the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor’s Chair at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Central to his teaching is the inclusive approach of architectural works integrating virtual and material organization and engineering constructions. RAJIV MISHRA A graduate of Architecture from Academy of BIMAL PATEL Architecture (1989), he undertook post-graduate Dr. Bimal Patel is an architect and urban planner with studies in Town & Country Planning at more than 20 years of professional experience Government College of Engineering at Pune (1991). in both fields. He is a Director at HCP Design and JUERGEN MAYER He received the Government Fellowship Project Management Pvt. Ltd., a highly regarded Founded in 1996 in Berlin, Germany, J. MAYER H P K DAS to study Urban Management at the Institute of architecture, planning and project management firm Architects’ studio focuses on works at the intersection P.K. Das is popularly known as an Architect – Activist. Housing Studies at Rotterdam (1997) Netherlands. in India. He is also the Founder-Director of of architecture, communication and new technology. His priority has been to establish a very close relation His Special Interests are issues dealing with Urbanism, Environmental PlanningCollaborative, a not-for-profit, Recent projects include, a student centre at Karlsruhe between architecture and people by involving them in Community Architecture, Heritage Conservation, planning research and advocacy organization that University, the villa Dupli.Casa near Ludwigsburg, a participatory planning process. His wide spectrum and Technology in Building Management, Classical works with local governments and other agencies. Germany and the redevelopment of the Plaza de la of work includes organizing slum dwellers for better Arts and Education of Architects and Planners in a He is actively engaged in understanding and Encarnacion in Sevilla, Spain, the office building ADA1 living and evolving affordable housing models, changing society. He has been exploring this field transforming urban design and urban planning in Hamburg, Germany and the extension of the science engaging in policy framework for mass housing, extensively through various research studies practice in India to make them more effective park in Danfoss, Denmark. From urban planning reclaiming public space in Mumbai by developing the trying to bridge the gap between Education and in improving the quality of life in Indian Cities. His schemes and buildings to installation work and objects waterfronts, urban renewal and conservation projects Practice. In June 2000, he completed his Post Graduate architectural work has been internationally with new materials, the relationship between the human along with an architectural practice involving urban Diploma in Management of Education with reference recognized and published, and Dr. Bimal Patel and body, technology and nature form the background for a planning, urban design, architecture and interior to Architecture Institutions from Department of the two companies that he heads, HCPDPM and EPC, new production of space. Jürgen Mayer H. is the design assignments across the country. He is the Joint Education, University of Mumbai. He has taught for have been the recipients of several awards. founder and principal of this cross-disciplinary studio. Convener of the Housing Rights Organization called Twenty years (Five years at Academy of Architecture He studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union Nivara Hakk Suraksha Samiti, Chairperson of the & Fifteen years at Sir J.J.College of Architecture) and Princeton University. His work has been published Mumbai Waterfronts Centre and founder of P.K. Das and has been involved in conducting seminars and and exhibited worldwide and is part of numerous & Associates. He has been widely published and has workshops on subjects of Architecture Design, collections including MoMA New York and SF MoMA. also delivered talks and lectures across the world. His City Planning, History and Theory of Architecture as National and international awards include the Mies- work in the development of Mumbai’s coastline and well as on development of Urban Management. van-der-Rohe-Award-Emerging-Architect-Special- his slum rehab projects has won him several national Mention-2003, Winner Holcim Award Bronze 2005 and and international awards including the first Urban Age Winner Audi Urban Future Award 2010. Jürgen Mayer H. Award conferred to the Mumbai Waterfronts Centre has taught at Princeton University, University of the Arts of which he is the Chairperson. With an extremely Berlin, Harvard University, Kunsthochschule Berlin, the strong emphasis on participatory planning, he hopes Architectural Association in London, the Columbia to integrate architecture and democratic rights University, New York and at the University of movements to bring about desired social changes in Toronto, Canada. the country. Mr. Das is also a member of the Steering Committee set-up by MMRDA for the preparation of a Vision Plan for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. BENJAMIN BALL Ball-Nogues Studio is an integrated design and fabrication practice operating in the territory between architecture, art, and industrial design. Essential to each project is the “design” of the production process itself. We devise proprietary systems of construction, create new fabrication devices, develop custom digital tools, and invent materials with the aim of expanding the potential of the physically constructed world. We share an enthusiasm for the fabrication process as it relates to the built world both physically and poetically by letting the properties, limitations, and economic scenarios associated with a process guide a structure’s ultimate form while developing methods to extend the intertwined boundaries of aesthetics, physical performance and lifecycle. Ball-Nogues has ANIKET BHAGWAT exhibited at major institutions throughout the world, Aniket Bhagwat is a partner at M/s.Prabhakar B. including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Bhagwat, India’s oldest and best known landscape Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the design practice. In recent critical literature the firm Guggenheim Museum; PS1; the Los Angeles County is placed as amongst the top 50 firms in the world. Museum of Art; arc en rêve centre d’architecture + The office straddles a vast and complex range of Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; the Venice assignments, ranging from large regional master Biennale, the Hong Kong | Shenzhen Biennale; and plan projects, environmental up gradation projects, to DELEGATE the Beijing Biennale. landscape design assignments of all scales and types. Since a bit over a decade, the firm has been rated as They have received numerous honors one of India’s, few thinking architectural firms. In including three American Institute of Architects Design addition to a clutch of International and national PROFILE Awards, United States Artists Target Fellowships and awards (IFLA- Asia Pacific Region Awards for two years a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced since awards inception, Government of India Civic Studies in the Fine Arts. In 2007, the Studio was the Development Awards) the firms work is extensively winner of the Museum of Modern Arts PS1 Young published in international and national journals. Aniket Architects Program Competition. Recently, their work Bhagwat has led the design studio for over two decades became part of the permanent collection of MoMA. In at the Faculty Of Landscape Architecture, at CEPT, 2011 they were one of the Architectural League of New Ahmedabad, and lectures frequently across the country. York’s Emerging Voices. The partners have taught in He is the Founder member and Founding Trustee of the graduate architecture programs at the Southern ISOLA (Indian Society of Landscape Architecture), the California Institute of Architecture; the University of co-founder and co-editor, of SPADE, India’s only peer California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern driven design magazine, Founder trustee of LEAF California. Their work has appeared in a variety of (Landscape Environment and Advancement Foundation) publications worldwide including the New York Times, a research arm of the practice, and the founder the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, Architectural member of FUTURE Institute, Delhi, a urban research Record, Artforum, Icon, Log, Architectural Digest, and communication organization. and Sculpture. WHY ATTEND?

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