Manit Rastogi

The delicate orange dust jacket to this monograph on India's Morphogenesis functions like a veil, shielding the photograph beneath it. With a pattern lifted from the British School, the cover hints at how the firm of Manit and Sonali Rastogi approaches context and sustainability: with a contemporary eye and an emphasis on passive design. The 27 projects across three sections (passive design, resource optimization, and contextual identity) reiterate this approach. About half of the projects are built and half are in-progress; the former – carefully documented with photos, diagrams and drawings – are much stronger than the latter, perhaps revealing that Morphogenesis's built reality exceeds what is depicted beforehand in renderings.… (mehr)