Architecture in India: Since 1990

This is an illustrated study of the architecture of post‑1990 India, a period that marks the liberalization of the country's economy and reflects the contradictions, glamour and displacement wrought by globalization and rapid economic mobility. Showcasing a complex construct of disparate adjacencies in which bizarre forms of coexistence characterize the built environment, it brings to life, with vivid illustrations, a transformation in the construction of identities, which range from the pan‑national to those more fluid in their expression. Hybridity and pluralism reign over singular identities, their architecture being the mirror of the socio‑economic as well as the political fabric of a nation‑state. Four distinct genres of architectural expression will be presented, and the proponents of each, supported by exceptional examples of their contemporary projects, introduced.