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AN ARCHIVE OF SOUTH ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
Rupali Gupte
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| A special section at School of Environment and Architecture SEA, Mumbai explores South Asian Architecture through transactional capacities with a focus on reimagining spatial logics for contemporary practice and pedagogy.
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The region termed South Asia, has often posed its autonomous identity historically through large empires such as the Ashokan Empire, the Mughal Empire in ancient times, through the colonial enterprise, and recently through the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation initiative. In architectural discourse and scholarship, one often finds that ideas around architecture and urbanism in South Asia have largely been structured through debates around identity, a classicizing impulse trying to reclaim a past, regionalism, informality, poverty, and outcomes of capitalist and neoliberal economies. The long duree research at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) on South Asian Architecture and Urbanism shifts the focus to developing spatial conceptual categories through which a critical understanding of architecture and urbanism in South Asia may be formulated.
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