Raga India: Architecture in the Time of Euphoria

摘要

As India celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence, guest-editor Kazi K Ashraf introduces this special title of AD by holding up a barometer to the nation's cultural identity. Can architecture be best understood through a local sense of place or globalisation? What are the driving impulses behind India's chaotic urban landscape that is simultaneously 'messy' and Utopian? Can Indian culture be best understood as a national entity or through a more elusive subcontinental substance?