3-day exhibition on Mumbai's architecture, environment inaugurated

Mumbai, Jul 9 (UNI) 'MakeShift Mumbai, Readings, Imaginations and Propositions', an exhibition depicting the work by the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA), was inaugurated here today.

The three-day exhibition was inaugurated by Dr Snehalata Deshmukh, former Vice Chancellor of the Mumbai Univesrity at Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (Formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India).

The Institute is an initiative of the Kamla Raheja Foundation and the Upanagar Shikhshan Mandal, which has been involved with research and education on architecture and urbanism.

The exhibition showcases large repertoire of work on the city, completed over the last 15 years.

The exhbition, according to Prof Aneerudha Paul, Director, KVRIA, is both a retrospective of the institute's work and an introduction to its Post Graduate programme. While the three categories 'Reading , Imaginations and Propositions' are in many ways interconnected, they form an important structure through which one can see the institute's work on the city.'' The work displayed through these conceptual categories has been done through the institute's Design and Research Cell, its Urban Studies courses conducted in the fourth year of the B Arch programme, its humanities courses, the final year thesis projects, and the Design projects undertaken from the first to the fourth year of the undergraduate programme, which engage in readings and interventions in the city at various scales and through multiple approaches.

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