architecture has been associated with the country’s urban problems

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May 31, 2018, 4:42:58 AM5/31/18

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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-balkrishna-doshi-bent-le-corbusiers-modernism-to-the-needs-of-india

"Instead, in a career that has spanned seventy years, he has focussed on public institutions: universities, libraries, performance-art centers, and low-cost housing complexes. He committed early to sustainability—not necessarily out of any premonition about the environment but because to be sustainable was to be local. Doshi wanted his buildings, above everything, to be of the place where they reside, of its weather and its vegetation, and of the rhythms of its people’s lives."

"India isn’t always a pleasant country for architects. “In some way, architecture has been associated with the country’s urban problems,” Gautam Bhatia, an architect in New Delhi, told me. “The housing is insufficient, the infrastructure is insufficient. When you have these problems, is it even ethical to worry about design? There’s a strange guilt the profession harbors.” Most architects, as a result, work on private commissions, Bhatia said."