There are three questions to address in Kahlil's book club today. A Place in the Light, The Old Landscape & Other Essays. Is the title of the book I aspire to finish and distribute by the end of the year. It is hope for now. The three questions to think about are necessary therefore this discussion. How will you improve your book before it's written? What are the most valuable parts of your book? How will structure your book so that the value is immediate & apparent? I would like to build the book as a reference to Charles Correa's A Place in the Shade, The New Landscape & Other Essays. To locate when I began writing it would be when I signed in for medium in 2012. There was no particular direction but a way to think out ideas of concepts I had come across and extend a contemporary imagination of Indian Architecture. This assembling of the Kindle book is a culmination of that exercise. A recap you could say. It started with trying to outline how architectural imagination in the country had transformed in the last 20years and being part of the note-taking community highlighted a possibility of how this first document could as a compilation lead into a discourse on architectural practice. A way to start and continue a conversation on practice. The form of the book I will mirror exactly to Correa's document. Its got four sections, architecture, planning, education and ideas, and the new landscape. There are 32 essays excluding the introduction, sources and acknowledgments, and glossary. To improve the book, I have to tidy the list of essays into four sections. The value of the book is how it can guide the next full writing of a grand theory of architectural imagination from 2000 to 2019. Conceptually to imitate the structure is to tell the narrative of how architecture even though looks the same can be a completely different idea when interpreted from different contexts. Since it is editing all my notes, I have to see what my notes tell me is the status of my aspiration and when I can complete it.
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