Indian construction is mostly masonry with most buildings including single family residences employing reinforced concrete. precast panels, and plaster. The plastic, moldable nature of these materials has brought out incredible form and expression.
The art deco and moderne vocabulary of the buildings are awesome.
The operational and security components are mostly wood and metal work. And the craftsmen go nuts here. The designs are ornate, or simple but usually very forceful and beautiful. The labor component is something we can’t match in the west.
On top of it all is a layer of power and communications infrastructure that looks like an army of spiders have run amok through the cities leaving loopy, dangling threads everywhere.
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