“There are various ways you can greet a person: you may shake hands, you may say namaskar, or you may embrace. In his [BV Doshi’s] buildings you find all these three phenomena. See the Indology building—it has landscape and it just stands out there. I say it does namaskar. See IIM here, it shakes hands. See the landscape and the building—they meet each other and again go back. It [the landscape] doesn’t enter but if you see Sangath and particularly the Gufa, I think these buildings are completely rooted, rooted into the ground and it is like a tree, it is drawing its nourishment from inside. That is like embracing. That building shows a tremendous intimacy, it is a virtual marriage between the land and the building. It doesn’t mean one is better than the others, these are just three ways of meeting friends.” —Navnath Kanade, Doshi (2009), dir. Premjit Ramachandran
31 October 2024
