Foreign Architects Rush into India
The profession and practice of architecture in India has undergone a
complete transformation in this decade. The last eight years have been
a boom time, not seen since the heady days of Post Independence India.
The booming economy and the burgeoning middle class has prompted
developers to bring in foreign architects with foreign fees to design
everything from airports to residential
and office towers and bungalows and resorts. Foreign architects bring
in the tried and tested processes and function precision to bring about
a complete turnaround in the way projects are designed and built. They
pair up with Indian firms who have the expertise on the ground to get
things done and built. Foreign architects for the most part are
bringing in foreign solutions and design principles which may not all
work in India, but the public does not think a second before lapping it
all up. We are literally bringing New York, Chicago, Tokyo or Shanghai
to Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta,
Madras and countless other towns and cities. Only time will tell if
this is successful in the long term. India is not the only place in the
world where this is happening. China is way ahead of us in
transplanting urban fabric from the West into their cities.
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