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(Nandana) #1

Soft Thresholds:


The Context


as Generator


of Practice


Text by Rahul Mehrotra


Held in New Delhi in 2017,
the second edition of the
Cyrus Jhabvala Memorial
Lecture, delivered by
architect Rahul Mehrotra,
focussed on why it is
necessary to go beyond
polarised binaries
during the making of
architectures — soft
thresholds and spaces
— that are visually
and physically porous,
plural in spirit and
expression, and, most
critically, encompassing
of context

This page: KMC Corporate
Office, Hyderabad
Opposite page: Visitors’
Centre and the
Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj Vastu
Sangrahalaya (formerly
the Prince of Wales
Museum), Mumbai

Photo Carlos Chen

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