Domus IN 201903

16 Editorial
Text by Kaiwan Mehta

18 Books

City Stories

On Jayant Kaikini’s ‘No Presents Please’

Text and photos by Aparna Andhare

20 Indian Aesthetics

On the trail of Jain art in

Tamil Nadu

Text and photos by Sudha Ganapathi

and Anuradha Shankar

26 Future City

Urbanising India — the

case of Karwar

Case study on Karwar, as part of the

Post-Graduate Urban Design Studio, 3rd

Semester (February-June 2017) of R V

College of Architecture, Bengaluru

Text by Himadri Das|

36 Archive

Hyderabad Biophilia

An exhibition on the unrealised planning

work of Scottish polymath Patrick

Geddes and Indian town-planner

Mohammed Fayazuddin

Text by Robert Stephens

46 Essay

Soft Thresholds: The Context

as Generator of Practice

The Cyrus Jhabvala Memorial

Lecture, New Delhi, 2017

Text by Rahul Mehrotra

54 Essay

The Stories from my Journey:

Yesterday, Today

and Tomorrow

The Cyrus Jhabvala Memorial

Lecture, New Delhi, 2018

Text by Christopher C. Benninger

64 Nurture Visions

Posters Unite!

A collective project by Group 2020

and Artists Unite

Contents

66 Domus Milan

Manifesto

Text by Winy Maas

68 Domus Milan

Water, please!

Text by Winy Maas

Photo by Amanda Weidemann

Translation by Paolo Cecchetto

70 Discussion

Water risks spell opportunity

Interview with Henk Ovink by Javier Arpa

Photos by Cynthia dan Elk, Ade Adekola, Tobin Jones

Translation by Paolo Cecchetto

76 Critique

Infrastructure of Domestic

Solidarity: Squatting as

spatial practice

ADM Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Text by Marina Otero Verzier

Photos by Johannes Schwartz, C. Bouton

Translation by Paolo Cecchetto

82 Cinema

Earth 2.

Avatar

Directed by James Cameron

Production company Twentieth Century Fox

Visual effects by Weta Digital

84 Landscape

Visions to save the planet

Geostories

Project by Design Earth

Text by Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy

Translation by Dario Moretti

94 Architecture

Flat-packed social housing

on demand

Bremen Cube

Bremen, Germany

Project by LIN Architects Urbanists

Photos by Nikolai Wolff, Kay Michalak/ fotoetage

Translation by Paolo Cecchetto

102 Event

Temporary City

Super Bowl LIII

Atlanta, GA, USA

Text, research and infographics by Stefano Andreani,

Joanna-Maria Helinurm

108 Rassegna

Thresholds

Presented by Giulia Guzzini

About the cover:

A planometric drawing by Vignesh Premkumar of

the India House building in Pune designed by

architect Christopher Charles Benninger, bringing

together the ideas of people, activity and space. To

read more, turn to pages 54-63. w