Sarosh Anklesaria Writes on Recent Campaign Against Demolition of IIM Buildings by Louis Kahn
Anklesaria reflects on the larger ethics of care, maintenance, and worldbuilding.
Professor Sarosh Anklesaria coauthored a longform essay in Scroll.in, one of India's most widely circulated English news magazines with a readership of over 4 million readers per month, with Shubhra Raje and Riyaz Tayyibji. The authors reflect on a recent campaign to stop the demolition of dormitory buildings at IIM, Ahmedabad designed by Louis Kahn.
The article calls for an ethic of empathy, care, and maintenance in the context of aging modernisms. It resituates the legacy of the IIMA project away from the hagiography surrounding Kahn and points to other ways of worldbuilding. In doing so, it also acknowledges the larger context of secular institution building in post-independence India.
Some of the drawings featured in the article were produced in collaboration with CMU SoA students Shariq Shah and Leah Kendrick. Professor Kai Gutschow was also involved in helping with early drafts of the appeal to save the buildings.