Connecting value systems in architecture
Information and debate on architecture happens in I different ways. Apart from academic institutions and the profession itself, various kinds of media interventions come useful in transmitting and initiating thought processes leading to discoveries and paradigm shifts in one's perception. One's participation in architecture and related fields is only an outcome of this dialectic. In the post-Independence India probably the first most important journal that came about was "Design' edited by late Patwant singh, in 1957 after The India Builder (53) by the same editor besides the Journal of Indian Institute of Architects. Today, one must have lost the count of magazines and journals on design and related matter in India, which have lofty claims on 'design and creativity'. These together must be able to represent an idea as to what is commercially successful and patronised by the society at large and what is found of academic merit by architects and academia the...