Architectural History
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Mapping Memories: Un-Erased Architectures and Invisible Geographies in India
Architectural history in India has long been shaped by a selective cartography—one that privileges monumental, imperial, and easily legible structures while marginalizing sites that resist dominant historical narratives. Beyond the canon of Mughal mausolea, Rajput forts, and colonial civic buildings exists a dense substratum of architectural production that remains physically present yet culturally obscured. These Continue reading
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Ruins, Power, and the Architectural Imagination: Toward a Critical Theory of Preservation
Ruins have long served as generative objects for intellectual reflection. As architectural remnants that mark temporal rupture, they exist in an ambiguous interval between persistence and disappearance. Their material incompleteness has historically encouraged meditations on theology, on the rise and fall of political orders, and on aesthetic theories of fragmentation, entropy, and the sublime. Yet Continue reading