Domus IN 201903

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