Diary of a Young Indian Architect: Space, Time and Life

By Karan Gupta

"So, you're an architecture? What is it that you do? Oh you make maps, don't you? Can you please check the leakage problem in my house? Why should we pay you millions for a couple of drawings? Why did you spend 5 years in college if you had to just make lines on paper?" Comments like these and many more are a staple diet for an architecture graduate in India.

Hey, I'm an architect and I reside in India, a country where design is as alien as the women's rights to men. I, unlike most of my schoolmates, decided to step into the most unknown college degree ever in India, Bachelors in Architecture. Little did I know this spontaneous decision was the tipping point to the most adventurous journey of my life. Hailing from a middle-class Indian family, I was destined to become either an engineer or a doctor and since I couldn't stand the sight of a paper cut, so engineering it was supposed to be. But destiny flipped my mind, messed up my entrance exams, and led me to grab a seat at one of the most prestigious colleges in Architecture in India i.e. School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal. The transition from a technical engineering background to a creative arts study was painful.

But 7 years later, here I am, an architect, visual designer, writer, and now an author narrating my roller coaster journey through this book. It's not an architecture guide for you to follow in school nor a fiction novel for you to dive in a fantasy. It's a collection of eye-opening, brutally honest, captivating stories written over a period of 5 long years in India and France. It's about the never revealed stories of life in an architecture college, my encounters of Architecture internship at an award-winning french firm, never heard before travel stories through french cities, never explored before concepts in Architecture and Planning, and immersive experiments on storytelling through Architecture.

Explore the world with a whole new perspective through my thoughts in this concise book 'Diary of a Young Indian Architect'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08VY8XC7R
• ISBN13: 9798701924800
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"