Kaiwan Mehta in conversation with Tridip Suhrud
The Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai and the Architecture Foundation, India invite you to the release of the Exhibition Catalogue for 'Architecture of Practice - Research, Reflections and Reformulations', RMA Architects 1990 - 2020, curated by Kaiwan Mehta.
The book release will be followed by a conversation with curator Kaiwan Mehta and writer and cultural historian - Tridip Suhrud
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© Kaiwan Mehta
Born in Mumbai,
Kaiwan Mehta, is a theorist and critic in the fields of visual culture, architecture, and city studies. Mehta has studied Architecture (B. Arch), Literature (MA), Indian Aesthetics (PGDip) and Cultural Studies (PhD). In 2017 he completed his doctoral studies at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru. Since March 2012 he has been the Managing Editor of Domus India (Spenta Multimedia) - the India-edition of the international Domus magazine on Art, design, Architecture and City Studies; and writes prolifically on architecture, aesthetics, and cities. He is also Professor (adjunct) and coordinator of the Doctoral Programme at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad since 2017. Mehta co-curated with Rahul Mehrotra and Ranjit Hoskote the national exhibition on architecture – “The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India” (UDRI, 2016) at the National Gallery Modern Art, Mumbai; and in 2018 curated the exhibition ‘State of Housing - Aspirations, Imaginaries, and Realities in India’.
The exhibition Architecture of Practice was curated by Kaiwan Mehta on RMA Architects 1990 - 2020 and shown at Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai from 27 October to 31 December 2021.
© Tridip Suhrud
Tridip Suhrud is a scholar, writer and translator who works on the intellectual and cultural history of modern Gujarat and the Gandhian intellectual tradition.
As the director and chief editor of the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust (2012-2017), he was responsible for creating the world's largest digital archive on Gandhi- the Gandhi Heritage Portal. His books include the critical edition of Hind Swaraj, Narayan Desai's four-volume biography of Gandhi, My Life is My Message, and the four-volume epic Gujarati novel, Sarasvatichandra.
His recent works include a critical edition of Gandhi's autobiography My Experiments with Truth in two languages; Gujarati and English and The Diary of Manu Gandhi (1943-44) and a compilation The Power of Non-Violent Resistance.
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