THE MUMBAI COASTAL ROAD | The Architect’s Agency in Engaging With a Large-Scale Development Project in the City

Mrinalini Ghadiok

Authored by Mrinalini Ghadiok, as a part of her academic study in May 2023, the essay discusses the Mumbai Coastal Road project and the role of architects in engaging with large-scale development projects in cities. She analyzes how architects can act as both professionals and citizens to influence projects through organized collectives while maintaining individual agency. She further examines different views on an architect’s responsibility to society and how their identity and work in commercial vs. critical practice impacts their ability to effect change.

There should be no such thing as ‘unpaid work.’ – Shruthi Ramakrishna, Founder, Made In Earth Collective

Made in Earth

The following view on the unpaid architectural internships in India was posted by Shruthi Ramakrishna on Made in Earth Collective’s Instagram handle.

Architectural Internship In India – Pramod Balakrishnan Opines

Anupriya Saraswat

It is important to remember that all through life these kids have always been instructed and evaluated. In the process, most become doers and lack the ability to think for themselves. What they are taught in schools makes them problem-solvers and plan-makers – they understand the process of design as being linear.

Architectural Internship in India – Samar Ramachandra opines

Anupriya Saraswat

Are we preparing our new generations to look deeper? Search more broadly? Are we getting them interested in thinking and working beyond self-sustenance?

Chitra Vishwanath on Architectural Internships

Architectural Internship in India – Chitra Vishwanath opines

Biome Environmental Solutions

Chitra Vishwanath opines: The office needs commercial success to retain the practice – it is not an ‘Institute’ to either teach or provide a knowledge sharing platform. Further, architectural education is a long, drawn-out process and is never finished.

Architects

THE MUMBAI COASTAL ROAD | The Architect’s Agency in Engaging With a Large-Scale Development Project in the City

There should be no such thing as ‘unpaid work.’ – Shruthi Ramakrishna, Founder, Made In Earth Collective

Architectural Internship In India – Pramod Balakrishnan Opines

Architectural Internship in India – Samar Ramachandra opines

Architectural Internship in India – Chitra Vishwanath opines

Engineers are not architects.. – Abhishek Bij

Architects and Engineers

Engineers will have same powers as architects – High Court

Architects – What’s in the extension?

Architects’ Tech Toys 2 – The Laptops

Ideas in your inbox

ALive! Perspectives

WE ARE HIRING /

PARTICIPATE /