101. On Anant Raje and Creative Legacy with Shubhra Raje

Original Drawing by Tori Haynes

“...You sort of wilt, not enough sun, you’re too much in the shade...you begin to think like the person and you don’t know what your own thoughts are...and for that you need a little bit of distance...of course, you carry things with you...but you do need to, in all that, find out what your own voice is.”

Shubhra Raje

Today we talk to Shubhra Raje, Academic and Architect…and also the daughter of Anant Raje, faculty member of CEPT in Ahmedabad and an architect who also worked closely with Louis Kahn on the IIM project. Today, we focus the conversation on Shubhra’s relationship with her father, how he has influenced her life and how this relationship has been formative in her own architectural and creative identity.

Timestamp Outline 

00:45    Introducing Shubhra Raje, Architect and Scholar

1:12    Anant Raje, Louis Kahn, and the IIM

2:20    Aditya Prakash explored in One Continuous Line

8:30    Chandigarh, India

9:30    Discussion of their fathers’ legacies

9:50    CEPT and Ahmedabad, India

12:45    “...You sort of wilt, not enough sun, you’re too much in the shade...you begin to think like the person and you don’t know what your own thoughts are...and for that you need a little bit of distance...of course, you carry things with you...but you do need to, in all that, find out what your own voice is.”    SR

13:15    “How did you find your own voice?”    VP

14:57    The question of legacy

16:00    a monograph publication of Anant Raje’s work

18:19    design thinking as thought in action    VP

28:30    Marathi Theatre

30:30    Mandal Riots

32:00    “How would you generate a critique of your father?”    VP

33:35    “Architecture begins with ideas…”    SR

43:00    “My father’s drawing sets were the most wonderful kind of narratives about how this building will be built…”    SR

43:30    UPenn Archives of Anant Raje