Rahul Mehrotra in Conversation with Jarrett Ley
Jarrett Ley, a current student in the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices Program at Columbia GSAPP, speaks with Indian architect Rahul Mehrotra, founder of RMA Architects, on the occasion of the Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture he presented on November 8, 2017. \nThey discuss Mehrotra\u2019s Magic Bus project, an educational campus which uses ordinary materials found in informal settlements in order to help young students feel more at ease while training away from home. Mehrotra also touches on permanence in architecture and the architect\u2019s role as negotiator and advocate between a project\u2019s different clients. \u201cHow do you design a house for ten years? How do you recycle everything? What\u2019s the material geography? How does the material come in? Where does it go out? I think we talk about sustainability, but in our pedagogy it doesn\u2019t find its way.\u201d \n\u2014Rahul Mehrotra \nMore information on RMA Architects at http://rmaarchitects.com\nMore information on the Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture at https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/732-the-kenneth-frampton-endowed-lecture-rahul-mehrotra