i havent had breakfast...

" u all have a walk through jury.. its cut throat competetion... your sheets should speak for themselves... you all will not make it to a final round of jury ..... "
some or all of the criteria for the drawings atleast were met by the class...
in comes our faculty... 5 strong heads ... 2 wanting to do it their "way" and the hungry juror his ....
so everyone is standing at their places as instructed ... and a faculty member ( cool dude wearing heels !!) who hardly ever shows up in college is marking the whole class internally ...
in comes the jury ... a hungry fellow ... all he says ( i mean the intelligent stuff relevant to what he was doing in college ) the cappucino is great .. boss aur ek cup milega ? then , staring at a plate of upma.... " i havent had breakfast " !!! wtf ??

thats that ...

i discover amongst the jury is a lady who has been told not to contradict herself by an outsider on more that one occassion ( once myself too !!)
one guy reminds me of kaiwan ... and another lady i do not know...
and off course the hungry guy ..

the walk through jury is reduced to design critts .. just like what we get on the table with our respective guides .... the only (seemingly ? ) intelligent guy is busy eating or just walking coz he has been told its a walk thru ..
and the self explanatory sheets start speaking a language that is alien to the fantastic four !!

what re ... we are asked to explain things tht are already there thru models and/or drawings ...

at the end of the day 2 comments wrapped up the jury for me ... i felt disgusted at the end of what had just occured...
1. you should have spend more time in making ur building look good, and less in design delevopment

2. you have no process.. i would have failed you if your building wasnt as nice ...

both by the hungry guy .....
the hungry guy dint read the brief .. and doesnt know wat the aims of the studio are : " its not just making beautiful buildings .... things have changed since u left col .. "

i would like to say thanx to all the faculty ........
and...
hungry guy get some food and a practice if possible !!

"yeh hai mumbai - meri jaan..." i love this place .. everything about it ... these are a few pictures of one of the most peaceful places around, and others .. sitting here with feet dangling over the masonnry work .. the tetrapods seperating the vast arabian sea over which the city sits gives promise and hope....