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Rahul Mehrotra discussed Ephemeral Urbanism with Vikram Prakash on Architecture Talk. Listen to the full interview here.
Episodes of Architecture Talk are curated conversations with contemporary critics on architecture, and architectural thinking.
Extreme Urbanism III – Planning for Conservation: Looking at Agra
An interview of Rahul Mehrotra, by Ibai Rigby for urbanNext, was featured on Architizer. Read more and see a clip from the interview here.
ArchDaily has featured the recently published book, Extreme Urbanism 3: Planning for Conservation: Looking at Agra, edited by Rahul Mehrotra, Vineet Diwadkar and José Mayoral Moratilla.
See the article here.
Rahul Mehrotra was interviewed by urbanNext to discuss the landscapes of future growth in India. See the interview here.
Rahul Mehrotra on Henrik Valeur’s book, India: The Urban Transition – A Case Study of Development Urbanism: “I very much enjoyed the range of issues touched upon and based on first hand experiences! The fine grain reading of issues in the Indian city is an important contribution so is the attempt to connect so many dots to make sense of the moving targets we encounter in Urbanism in India.”
The launch in Delhi of Rahul Mehrotra’s new book, Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral MEGACITY was featured by Harvard University’s South Asia Institute.
ArchDaily has featured the recently published book, Kumbh Mela, January 2013: Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City, edited by Rahul Mehrotra and Felipe Vera.
see the link here
Reporter Tom Downey recounts his observations from the 2013 Maha Kumbh Mela, including an interview with Rahul Mehrotra:
What Urban Planners Can Learn From a Hindu Religious Festival
Rahul Mehrotra was interviewed by Monocle for their show ‘Section D,’ a weekly show that focuses on design culture. This took place at the ‘What Design Can Do’ conference in Amsterdam; the interview can be found here (Rahul’s segment begins at 13’15”).
Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral City
Rahul Mehrotra will bring the programme Urban Landscapes-Indian Case Studies to a close with his lecture and exhibition The Kinetic City.
During this programme, we have looked at some of the consequences of “top-down” formal master planning in Delhi’s desolate new towns through the eyes of contemporary photographers, and have considered ways of compensating or adjusting to some of the problems which result from the imposition of over-determined spatial visions, a theme that Rahul Mehrotra in particular will discuss and other guest writers have considered. Full article here.
“Rethink the Indian cities is not only possible, but mandatory. That’s why, until February 26th 2013, The British School at Rome hosts The Kinetic City, the exhibition realized by the Indian architect and town planner Rahul Mehrotra. A collection of pictures and notice boards that show the consequences of the urbanization in the country.” Full article here.
‘This is the second in a series of articles about Harvard’s interdisciplinary work at the Kumbh Mela, a religious gathering that every 12 years creates the world’s largest pop-up city.’
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/02/mapping-a-megacitys-metabolism/
Rahul Mehrotra was interviewed about the ‘Kinetic City’ exhibition at the British School at Rome for ArtTribune, an Italian online magazine.
View the english translation here.
(Bombay: 5-8 December 2012)
Convenors: Rahul Mehrotra, Ranjit Hoskote, Kaiwan Mehta
‘WWCW is a constellation of events that is designed to open up various directions of cultural and historical inquiry while eluding fixed institutional or disciplinary mandates. It will act as a stage for new relationships to emerge among initiatives in the arts, architecture, urbanism and culture at large. WWCW is presented as a production set for ideas that will, we hope, circulate into the cultural bloodstream of Bombay. It is a prototype for a full-scale festival of ideas, which is intended to take place in 2013.’
Rahul will be speaking at the ETH Zürich this Monday at 3:45pm as part of the ‘Urban Mutations on the Edge’ Lecture series.
Rahul Mehrotra will be speaking at ‘Informality: Re-Defining Architecture and Urbanism in Latin America’ at the University of Michocan in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico, 8-10 November 2012
Writer Mary Anne Constable shares her observations of Rahul Mehrotra’s presentation at the Architecture ZA 2012 Conference in Cape Town