Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai

by Anne Rademacher

  6. Siddharth, interview transcript, March 2012.

  7. Aditya, interview transcript, April 2012.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Darius, interview transcript, February 2012.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Ibid.

  12. After graduation, Amrit worked for two years with what he called “typical commercial architects,” but then left the firm to seek environmental opportunities; at the time of our interview, he was in private practice, busy primarily with designing bungalows in Ali Baug.

  13. Amrit, interview transcript, April 2012.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Anonymized quotation from a recent (2009) RSIEA graduate survey response.

  16. Siddharth, interview transcript, March 2012.

  17. Darius, interview transcript, February 2012.

  18. Aditya, interview transcript, April 2012.

  19. Darius, interview transcript, February 2012.

  20. Aditya, interview transcript, April 2012.

  21. Kalpana, interview transcript, April 2012.

  22. Field notes from group interview at RSIEA, June 24, 2012.

  23. Siddharth, interview transcript, March 2012.

  24. Suhasini, interview transcript, March 2012.

  25. Field notes from group interview at RSIEA, June 24, 2012.

  26. Aditya, interview transcript, April 2012.

  8. SOLDIERING SUSTAINABILIT Y

  1. I am grateful to K. Sivaramakrishnan for encouraging me to consider this point.

  2. The work of Guha and Martinez-Alier (1997) provides a useful overview here, but there are vast literatures on all of these points. Again, I grateful y acknowledge K. Sivaramakrishnan for highlighting this point.

  184 Notes

  3. See, for instance, Srinivas 2015.

  4. For example, see Pickett, Cadenasso, and McGrath 2013.

  5. To further note that many good design examples were derived from non-city settings highlights the recurrence of a rather stark experiential binary in which nature in its most intact forms is sought in places separate from the city rather than embedded within them.

  Environmental architects in training went to nature—a “nature” removed from the city, and in many ways the city’s opposite—in order to learn environmental architecture. They actively sought guidance for the city of the future by leaving it altogether, in search of purer forms of nature.

  6. Appadurai 2015, 481.

  7. See Appadurai 2000. As Appadurai (2015, 482–3) further notes, this speculative territory is the “zone where the visible and the invisible come together,” the joining of the visible city to the processes that will activate its now invisible future form.

  8. See Buck-Morss 2000; Humphrey 2005 for a more detailed treatment of the relationship between utopian aspiration, built form, and ideology.

  9. I draw here from Sivaramakrishnan (2015) and Pandian and Ali’s (2010) Ethical Life in South Asia, which emphasize the moral dispositions and everyday lived practices that characterize social life.

  10. See, for example, Connol y 2013; Barua 2014; Whatmore 2003.

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