On the other hand, probably the majority of qualified professional architects are urbane, often very well traveled, and have a huge range of responses to the contrasts between India and places like Western Europe. The ones I find most interesting are those who have made a point of finding a way of producing buildings that seek to return some of the empowerment to the craftsmen – to leave room for craft based decision making for instance. It is within this proposition that it is so relevant to mention, each time, the typical horizons of an Indian building craftsman.

This is the second time i am hearing this mentioned in the context of Indian architecture abroad. The first being the V&A exhibition ‘Architects build small spaces’ a nearly similar recreation of a built environment within a museum. Superbly irrelevant.

India is bigger than all of western Europe so i’m sure they’re well traveled.