< India — Cradle of Beauty

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”

Dschalal ad-Din ar-Rumi 1207 – 1273

FIRST SEMINAR
Analysis and design planning research

SECOND SEMINAR
Field research and visits to several universities

Field research and preliminary report: „North Indian Architecture and Urban Development“, Housing projects and available sites for development and their relation with the city’s spatial, functional and social fabric; Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Chandigarh.

Settlement structures, demographic development and societal changes; study of the biggest slum in Asia like Dharavi in Mumbai; from the failures of the "rehabilitation" to the model projects today.
Project during the professorship at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany (D. Karcher)

Collaboration partners
Sir J. J. College of Architecture, Mumbai, India
Chandigarh College of Architecture; Panjab University Chandigarh, India

Sponsors
GEZE GmbH, Germany

 India — Cradle of Beauty