“Mumbai Modern” is a poster reasserting the place of 20 buildings in the history of the Modern built landscape of the city. The A0 poster is put together by third year SEA students as a part of their History-Theory programme.
Bombay/Mumbai Modern is a snapshot of twenty-two architectural projects in Mumbai, which expand the rubric of Modern architecture and what it is to be Modern in the city. The projects chosen here are so enmeshed in the city’s everyday that we often miss them. They are not monumental examples that make it to the city’s tourist circuits nor are they centres of political power. They are however important constituents of the city’s collective memory - a memory that in turn shapes who we are as “modern” citizens. Through the project one sees a range of ways in which architects interpreted ideas they absorbed from their own national or international exposure, bringing new ideas of inhabiting. On the other hand, the project also considers the way in which the State imagined modern infrastructure for the city. Lastly, it is also our intent to create a map that serves as an index of notable modern projects that enable new meanderings through the city of Mumbai while also becoming an instrument for pedagogy and further scholarship in Mumbai’s modern landscape.
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- Mumbai Modern, Edited by Rupali Gupte and Anuj Daga. Vol. 01. Mumbai: SEA Press, School of Environment & Architecture, 2017.