This project puts together the practices of visualizing and understanding space through the act of drawing over the last three centuries in India. By juxtaposing strategic representations from the 18th, 19th and 20th century, one aims to interrogate the shifts in conception of architecture and space. What potentials lay in the modes of these distinct drawing techniques of indigenous Rajputs, British colonialists, and contemporary architects in India? How have they come to calibrate our everyday environment and living, both – in reality and imagination? The portfolios gathered here posit the viewer to wonder how space gets constituted within representational forms, and how they subsequently come to re-inscribe us within their folds.
ANUJ DAGA
Team: Rupali Gupte, Prasad Shetty, Dhruv Chavan.
Credits: The Royal Family of Jaipur Maharaja Sawai Man Singh Ii Museum The Department of Archaeology & Museums, Jaipur Aayojan School of Architecture Dronah Sir JJ College of Architecture & Mustansir Dalvi
Anuj Daga is a hybrid design thinker interested in engineering new ways of reading and intervening into the built environment. Trained as an architect from Mumbai (2008), he went on to pursue his interests in History & Theory of Architecture as well as design research through the interdisciplinary Master of Environmental Design program at Yale School of Architecture (2014). He is the recipient of the National Award (awarded by Council of Architecture, India) and also the Charles Correa Gold Medal for his design thesis ‘Cinema for the Blind’. He was awarded the Kamla Raheja Research Fellowship 2009-10 where he undertook research on patterns of domesticity in Mumbai. Anuj has worked with several institutions including Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Collective Research Initiatives Trust (CRIT) - Mumbai, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - New York and Critical Art & Media Practices (CAMP) - Mumbai. He has keen interest in studying the visual culture in architecture and the way different visual media tie into contemporary architectural expression. He has been a consulting architect & strategist at the Godrej Innovation Centre, Mumbai. He is the Curatorial Assistant to Riyas Komu for the visual arts project “Young Subcontinent” since first organized by Serendipity Arts Trust in Goa in 2016. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the School of Environment & Architecture, Mumbai.
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- When is Space? In An Exhibition on Contemporary Architecture Commissioned by Jawahar Kala Kendra, Edited by Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty. Jaipur: Jawahar Kala Kendra, 2018.