Volume 01 • Issue 07 • May 2012 / SPASM Design substantial architecture / ETT blooms, reeds, petals, fronds / <strong>Heinsdorff</strong> travelling gems / Vivan Sundaram making strange in fragile landscapes / Home-for-all: Ito, SANAA, Kuma, Yamamoto and Naito design post-tsunami housing / Ma’anqiao back to earth / Ajay Nayak struggles in a ravaged landscape / Gautam Bhatia in times of delirious architecture / Sudhir Patwardhan, Annapurna Garimella measuring bodies in space <strong>India</strong> R150 domus 07 May 2012 07 Contents 07 • May 2012 SPASM / ETT / <strong>Heinsdorff</strong> / Sundaram / Home-for-all / Ma’anqiao / Nayak / Bhatia / Patwardhan, Garimella Editorial Op-ed Dr. Jyoti Hosagrahar Architectural narratives for <strong>India</strong>’s moment Op-ed Johan van Lengen How I lost my shoes Journal 5 9 10 15 Photoessay Sachin Bandukwala, Melissa Smith We move the ground Gautam Bhatia In times of delirious architecture Sudhir Patwardhan, Annapurna Garimella Measuring bodies in space 84 92 96 Cover Travelling gems, Construction of a mobile pavilion designed by <strong>Markus</strong> <strong>Heinsdorff</strong> (Photo by Manoj Patil) Photoessay SPASM Design, Kaiwan Mehta, Suprio Bhattacharjee Substantial Architecture 17 27 Reinhard Mende, Philip Ursprung The planned design of socialism 100 ETT, Jude D’Souza, Suprio Bhattacharjee Blooms, reeds, petals, fronds 40 Massimiliano Gioni The Machine Civilisation 106 <strong>Markus</strong> <strong>Heinsdorff</strong>, Roshan Kumar Mogali Travelling gems 46 Godrej Archives Making a machine 110 Vivan Sundaram, Kaiwan Mehta Making strange in fragile landscapes 54 Clemens Weisshaar, Reed Kram Force feedback Azimut Yachts, Kalyani Majumdar Design Craft 112 116 POST-DISASTER DESIGN KISYN, Julian Worrall Shelters for all 62 Rassegna Furniture 120 POST-DISASTER DESIGN Kazuyo Sejima, R. Nalini A world without walls 70 On the future of mobility 124 POST-DISASTER DESIGN Ma’anqiao Back to earth 72 POST-DISASTER DESIGN Ajay Nayak Struggles in a ravaged landscape 78 13
Travelling gems As part of the year of Germany in <strong>India</strong> celebrations, a set of mobile pavilions were created by a German designer based on his study of fabrics and gemstones from <strong>India</strong>. These pavilions form the Urban Mela that is set to travel to five <strong>India</strong>n cities, exploring questions of mobility, technology and city spaces 46