One is to One: Stories, Practice, and Collaboration of Kamal Mangaldas and Devendra Shah
This fascinating catalogue emerges from rigorous archival investigation, offering an intimate portrait of two architects whose creative synergy shaped modern Indian design. Kartikeya Shodhan and Bhavya Jain have meticulously assembled the story of Kamal Mangaldas and Devendra Shah, born in the same year, forged as friends at Gujarat College, and later bound by professional ambition. What makes this publication genuinely compelling is how it refuses simple narratives. Rather than chronological trudging, each chapter explores a distinct dimension of their collaborative ethos through carefully selected projects, sketches, photographs, and personal recollections. You'll discover how their contrasting training (one steeped in Cambridge and Yale's architectural traditions, the other grounded in structural engineering across American universities) somehow produced harmonious rather than fractious outcomes. Establishing Design Associates in 1964, they went on to realise nearly 400 commissions spanning diverse building types and scales. This catalogue doesn't celebrate their work uncritically. Instead, it contextualises their output within broader ideological frameworks, revealing how their partnership functioned as genuine intellectual dialogue rather than mere professional arrangement. For anyone interested in design history, collaborative practice, or the subtle mechanics of creative partnership, this is unexpectedly absorbing. The publication treats its subject with scholarly rigour whilst remaining genuinely human in tone and scope.
- Author: Kartikeya Shodhan [Author] & Bhavya Jain [Author]
- Publisher: CEPT University Press
- Genre: Architecture
- ISBN: B0D41NLSCG
- Pages: 158 pages