Architect Rahul Mehrotra and cultural critic and theorist Ranjit Hoskote combine the study of the past and the evolution of architecture in India as a strategy to tackle and support their aspirations on pluralism and alterity in modern Indian architecture. A process of utmost complexity explored in exhibitions like State of Housing – Aspirations, Imaginaries and Realities in India and The State of Architecture SOA, which have been welcome occasions to retrospectively examine issues of architectural practice, theory, and politics, with the goal of imagining a new future for Indian architecture.
