Architecture in a Time of Flux: Research as Practice & Practice as Research
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02 Mar
2026
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Creative Processes
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Rahul Mehrotra
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Image: Gardeners tending to the green Facade of the KMC Corporate office in Hyderabad.
Photo Credit: Carlos Chen
The lectures will explore how we might imagine an Architecture in a Time of Flux. To construct this understanding, it is important we look at the notion of flux at differing scales as well as modes of engagement. Furthermore, to examine how this idea might help us understand emergent forms of human settlements such as the notion of the kinetic city and the ephemeral as a productive category to analyze urbanism more broadly. Lastly, how this might be manifest as architecture that is context specific.
Free In-person only Lecture at Jnanapravaha Mumbai.
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March 2, 2026
Timing: Tea: 5:30 PM | Lecture: 6:00 - 8:30 PM IST
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Rahul Mehrotra
Rahul Mehrotra is an architect and divides his time between working in Mumbai and teaching at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University where he is the John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization. His writings include coauthoring Bombay—The Cities Within and Conserving an Image Center—The Fort Precinct in Bombay - based on this study and its recommendations the historic Fort area in Mumbai was declared a conservation precinct in 1995—the first such designation in India. In 2012-2015, he led a Harvard University-wide research project with Professor Diana Eck, called The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City. This work was published as a book in 2014. Mehrotra’s most recent books are titled Working in Mumbai (2020) and The Kinetic City and other essays (2021). The former a reflection on his practice and the latter his writings over the last thirty years.