The changing face of modern residential architecture
The evolving culture of architecture in modern world, both as a lifestyle and as a living, has been game changing. In regard to lifestyle, it was never predicted the degree to which architecture and design could influence the society and culture we live in, nor did it was forecasted how intensely symbolic of our beliefs and attitudes they’d be. As a profession, the big wave of development and technology that compelled us to try and ape everything that didn’t belong to us, has made us question and search for our own identity and provoked us to revisit the solid traditional roots and foundation of Indian architecture. The ‘architect’ has obviously lost the writing and exclusivity s/he once had—a comment that might be visible not only in India but in the profession all across the globe. At present, the cooperative role of architecture instead depends on developers, clients, different consultants, and foreign businesses, somewhere pacifying the voice of the architect. Speaking f...