Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Mathew & Ghosh Architects
10.1002/ad.569.abs
The work of Mathew & Ghosh Architects (Nisha Mathew‐Ghosh and Soumitro Ghosh) boldly extends an abstract Modernist language and at the same time draws from the vitality of places. While the firm's early works were small in scale, mostly residential in nature and based on a reappraisal of the early Corbusian idiom, recent projects include large‐scale urban and landscape interventions with diverse conceptual and metaphorical imperatives. They have moved from a more reticent stance to the urban exuberance of their more recent projects (for example, their own office building), something akin to a ‘savage architecture’ as posited by Kazuo Shinohara in the context of the unsynchronised nature of the modern city.
The architects' object of contemplation is the urban ‘box’, whether a private residence, office or part of a church. The box is first fractured and reconstructed as a bricolage of tectonic fragments, memories and events, all tenuously related as if unity in a contemporary culture is for ever denied. Like the Japanese notion of ‘ma’, the moment between fragments ‐ a slit or an emptiness between two hovering planes ‐ is telling. Mathew & Ghosh participate in the continuity of a historical narrative yet mark out the fissures and disjunctions; sometimes negotiations with the continuity emerge from unintended interstices.
While these configurations of the contemporary urban ‘box’ are both contextual and abstract, they are also phenomenologically rich. There is a sustained dialect to the architecture of Mathew & Ghosh that includes consummate materiality and fine crafting, light as a medium, and always, as Nisha Mathew‐Ghosh states, ‘good spatial possibilities’. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Mathew & Ghosh Architects
10.1002/ad.569.abs
The work of Mathew & Ghosh Architects (Nisha Mathew‐Ghosh and Soumitro Ghosh) boldly extends an abstract Modernist language and at the same time draws from the vitality of places. While the firm's early works were small in scale, mostly residential in nature and based on a reappraisal of the early Corbusian idiom, recent projects include large‐scale urban and landscape interventions with diverse conceptual and metaphorical imperatives. They have moved from a more reticent stance to the urban exuberance of their more recent projects (for example, their own office building), something akin to a ‘savage architecture’ as posited by Kazuo Shinohara in the context of the unsynchronised nature of the modern city.
The architects' object of contemplation is the urban ‘box’, whether a private residence, office or part of a church. The box is first fractured and reconstructed as a bricolage of tectonic fragments, memories and events, all tenuously related as if unity in a contemporary culture is for ever denied. Like the Japanese notion of ‘ma’, the moment between fragments ‐ a slit or an emptiness between two hovering planes ‐ is telling. Mathew & Ghosh participate in the continuity of a historical narrative yet mark out the fissures and disjunctions; sometimes negotiations with the continuity emerge from unintended interstices.
While these configurations of the contemporary urban ‘box’ are both contextual and abstract, they are also phenomenologically rich. There is a sustained dialect to the architecture of Mathew & Ghosh that includes consummate materiality and fine crafting, light as a medium, and always, as Nisha Mathew‐Ghosh states, ‘good spatial possibilities’. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Mathew & Ghosh Architects
Architectural Design ; 77 ; 92-97
01.11.2007
6 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
‘tube’ , metal , material transparency , enclosed for private living , interstices of light and movement , winner of a national competition , ‘authentic’ contemporary Indian design , a pastor's office , spaces , Freedom Park, Bangalore, 2003 landscaping project , opens itself selectively , deliberate ‘ruptures’ , instructive re‐creations and interventions , hotel , a pastoral committee hall , clearings between propped and hovering fragments , Trinity‐Malabar Escapes at Stuber Hall, Fort Cochin, Kerala, 2004Goetz Hagmuller of Katmandu , lower residential level , Kuruvila House, Bangalore, 2002‘verandah in the landscape’ , floating the new structure above the old , concrete , SUA House corporate office, Bangalore, 2002urban box , Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims Memorial Competition, 2005 (Awarded Second Position)Union Carbide Bhopal Methyl Isocyanate gas tragedy of 1984 , pain and healing , St Mark's Cathedral Resource Centre, Bangalore, 2006 miscellaneous activities , concatenated forms , an auditorium to seat 200 , upper level for an architectural design studio , Mathew & Gosh office and design studio, Bangalore, 2004 vertical division , mangalore tiles , ‘brownfield’ , outdoor bathing/ablution space , Benjamin House, Banaglore, 2001 ‘house of fragments’
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