ISLE Silver Jubilee Lecture by Behr Champana on July 10, 2010 at Century Club at 1800 hrs
Abstract of the ISLE-KSC Silver Jubilee Lecture.
Many of the world great modern developments and future of architecture may or may not apply or be relevant to the Indian Subcontinent and to future growth in India. Issues for India are different. The lecture will focus on what should guide Indian government, developers, contractors, architects, planners, designers, engineers,etc..in a sensible approach. The sensibilities of the diverse regional Indian cultural heritage, their socio-economic factors, and how not to focus just on sustainable developments, but stress the need to grow sustainable "human" developments to educate and ensure the creation of a new generation with an "inherent will" to protect the resources, environment, the rich knowledge & educational talent pool etc., based on Indian traditions for all future generations to enjoy.
The Program had very good attendance with over 200 Architects, about 50 engineers and about 15 real estate developers. The Chief Guest of the program was Shri K.Jairaj, the Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Karnataka. Chairman IIA, Karnataka Shri K.Jaisim and Chairman ISLE, Karnataka Shri MSN Swamy chaired the program.
Shri Behr Champana quoted statistics and gave his analysis of the issues of developments and how the requirements differ from one country to another or even from one region to another due to cultural, religious, climatic, political and economic factors, taking examples from around the world. The presentation was supported with brief case studies of some development initiatives which succeeded, and many which have boomeranged. Deriving from the presentation he gave a few suggestions about the factors that Indian professionals - Architects and Engineers - should apply these factors to influence development. He highlighted the differences in the decision process between countries like UAE, China on one hand and in the democratic countries like India.
Another important highlight was his analysis on the manner in which India has come out unscathed from the global recession, due its non-dependance entirely on the developed world market.
Shri Jairaj, Additional Chief Secretary to the Government, gave the developmental picture in the state & highlighted the unparalled strides taken by Karnataka in the field of power and in particular the renewable sources. He appreciated the move of joint initiative from the IIA & ISLE. He gave the statistics of the development in Wind energy, Biomass, Micro Hydel. Now efforts are on to step up the development of SPV systems, with focus on the arid areas of Karnataka. The statistics about the solar heating systems was something not well known and the participants were thrilled to know that Bangalore has the distinction of having the largest area of solar water heating collectors among all the cities in the world.
Earlier it had been mentioned by Shri Bhavani Prasad that ISLE & IIA have taken the initial steps to form an apex association of all professionals, such as Architects, Structural Engineers, Electrical, Air-Conditioning, Plumbing, Fire protection, Horticulture & Landscaping professionals, who have to join together for improving the built environment. Prof.Jaisim mentioned that in February the first step of an event with Structural Engineering World Congress had been successful and that this is the second step with the lighting professionals. We would look forward to have similar activities with professionals of HVAC, Plumbing, Fire & Landscaping in the very near future.
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