The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s School is an architectural marvel designed by Diana Kellogg of Diana Kellogg Architects and commissioned by CITTA, a non-profit organization that supports development in some of the most economically challenged, geographically remote, or marginalized communities in the world. Located in Salkha, Jaisalmer, India it is one of the most influential and iconic institutional buildings in modern-day India. It serves more than 400 girls, from kindergarten to class 10. The school also consists of a Medha – a performance and art exhibition space with a library and museum.
These are a few of many such architectural marvels built by great architects in the 21st century in India. In the last two decades, India has seen tremendous growth in architecture and construction. Architecture in the 21st century no longer only serves the purpose of safety and security, instead, it also represents the values of culture and community, tradition and modernism, Sustainability, and economic awareness. With technology advancing, the infrastructure is also moving at a faster pace.
Today India is constructing the tallest skyscrapers and smart buildings, planning cities and transit-oriented connectivity, at the same time it is designing contextual structures, sourcing materials locally, saving energy consumption and resources, and building green and eco-friendly buildings. This is the concept of modernism in architecture in the 21st-century India. Today India is no less than the developed countries in terms of Modern conceptual architecture to bring the people of the country together.
Architecture in India today is inspiring to bring people together, it is helping build a purpose of nation-building, a sense of responsibility, and ownership as a nation. Architecture is no longer a statement or a monumental building, it is about the essence of spatial quality and communication between the built and unbuilt. India has come a long way in evolving, Today in the 21st century the buildings of the country show the evolving graph.
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Text provided by Pooja Gosar -
An Architect aiming to redesign the idea of design. She believes that architecture is a story of built and unbuilt. The architecture we see is not the whole story, there are multiple layers to it. Pooja believes in unfolding these layers to the world and exploring architecture beyond perception.