Is architecture the making of a clay pot, a brick, a tile or is it the making of a house, a spice rack, a ship or a play ground? Do materials, masons and contractors build buildings, or do architects build them?
This webinar, with Prof. Sarover Zaidi explores the ideas of materials and making so centrally placed in the field of architecture. How do we build? and what worlds of materiality and making do we inhabit in our built environments?
The speakers Asha and Arijit, explore for us the ubiquitous Mangalore tile. Albeit developed by Swiss missionaries on the Marseilles pattern, and made with Malabar clay, the Mangalore tile holds many layers this Indian Ocean history of making.
Curt Gambetta's work explores how engineers, architects, contractors, builders negotiate aspirations of the modern home and everyday constraints imposed on its construction in contemporary India. Through historical & ethnographic research he dwells on the use of building materials for different processes of self-making & materiality in South Asia.

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