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Approaching India's Architecture in the Urban Century

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
South Asian Studies @ CSAMES
Date
Dec 6, 2024   11:00 am - 12:00 pm  
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Contact
Ragini Chakraborty
E-Mail
raginic2@illinois.edu
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South Asia Friday Talks

Approaching India's Architecture in the Urban Century

Soumya Dasgupta, University of Illinois

In this paper, I provide an overview of my ongoing dissertation research that explores the systemic shifts in institutionalized architectural productions vis-à-vis the evolving figure of the architect in urban India since the 1991 economic reforms. Drawing from a range of critical scholarship on capitalism, technology, and postcolonialism, I examine how the rise of neoliberalism, informatization, and political Hindutva alters the systems governing architectural productions, changing the spatial environments of India’s cities. Departing from the more conventional approaches of architectural history, I treat architecture as a planetary process of spatial production distributed over expanded networks of national, supranational, and global political economies and shed light on how the government-realtor-architect nexus is operationalized to advance ideological projects.

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