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SEA Conversations: Architectural Practice in India: Session #7 - The Urban Turn / Urbanistic Impulse

SEACONVERSATIONS monsoon 2025-26 ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE IN INDIA: A MILLENNIAL ARCHAEOLOGY part 1 sessions* Aug 08 Organisational Restructurings Aug 22 Urban Periphery as Experimental Field Sep 05 Multinational Dispositions Sep 19 Designing Interiorscapes Sep 26 Sustainability & Green Building Environmental Practices Oct 03 Heritage Conservation Practices Oct 10 The Urban Turn / Urbanistic Impulse *all dates for 2025 session 7 THE URBAN TURN / URBANISTIC IMPULSE The developmental push for making “world-class” cities in the late ’90s gave a certain impetus to architects in thinking about space at an urban scale. Where on the one hand, new building typologies—such as malls, flyovers, and gated complexes—introduced a new order and scale of urban experience that required revised approach to design, older neighborhoods and informal settlements came to be under risk of displacement and rehabilitation to accommodate fresh infrastructure and release real estate for new building activity. For example, in Mumbai, the closure of mills, the introduction of flyovers, the reclamation of land creates new challenges for architectural design. In this context, campaigns like “Smart Cities” or “India Shining” encouraged Indian cities to imitate Western models of urban growth, often raising questions of appropriate urban form involving aspects of fairness, sustainability, and equal access to public resources. Inseparable from the city, architects soon found themselves articulating an approach for built form that gives rise to spatial practices of urban design, city advocacy and urban research and design in the public realm. This session shall explore in further detail: How did the city itself become central to architectural practice at the turn of the millennium? What roles have architects played in shaping urban life, and what gaps remain in their approaches? Why has the city emerged as a pressing concern for architecture over the past two decades? discussants Aneeruddha Paul (CODES) Jasmine Saluja (Plural) Sarfaraz Momin (Studio Pod) moderated by Anuj Daga (SEA) on Friday 10 October 2025 @ 6:00 PM IST VENUE School of Environment & Architecture CKP Colony, Eskar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091 or Join virtually via YouTube Live The event is partly supported by Urban Centre Mumbai. It is free and open to everyone across the world.