Architexturez wrote:
Global designs on India
Arati Menon Carroll / Mumbai July 28, 2007
Indian real estate is benefitting from the integration of global
architecture and design firms. What is driving this trend?
By the end of the year, that darling of developers, Mohit Gujral, will
be extending his architectural firm’s talent pool to include 30
Singaporean architects and designers in his first overseas office. Many
of them will be practitioners in specific design areas like lighting or
landscaping.
| earlier, Indian Regulator and Academic admit defeat:
“The way things are going, we would need at least six lakh more
architects in the next five years,” says Vijay Sohoni, president,
Council of Architecture and director Vidya Vardhan’s Institute of Design
Environment and Architecture.
Ashok Lall, architect and dean of studies at the TVB School of Habitat
Studies, points to another problem — architects doing outsourced work
for international architectural firms. “A lot of freshers choose this
because that is definitely a more lucrative option.”
| Question: and Anand, I want you to respond - what does this mean?
| We read: Indian Institutions and Academics are throwing their hands
| up, and will not address the shortages in the profession, given the
| tasks as they are emerging (and the latest Time magazine feature
| on DLF IS very telling, should you care to look at physical
| infrastructure in a saner, non-planning perspective.
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