Architecture as opportunities
- Vol.86(12), Dec
- Mumbai Indian Institute of Architects 2021
- 58-63p.
The renovation and extension of the Lycée Français Internationale de Pondicherry (LFIP) or the French High- School of Puducherry has been a landmark project for me. Like many architects of my generation Maurice Merleau- Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception and Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture had a profound influence on my approach to architectural design. The idea of architecture being ‘a machine to live in’ though intellectually attractive is a reductive of its potential.