Water and Architecture in Indian Subcontinent. Tradition and innovation

Infinite repetition characterizing an Indian existence serves as inspiration for a vision based on figures taken from everybody reality, fixed images that observe the landscape around them, conscious of being part of it. Immobile, static, hieratic presences that merge with the cyclic motion of nature and its very existence within the city. It is sometimes hard to distinguish animate from inanimate in these places where searching for a polished stone corresponds to researching the origin of life and where every object exists in its symbolic essence. Everyday existence only knows present time, and lives it with constancy through the sign of a past memory, that is also future. The present not only lives on fragments and instants, but optains support from past experiences that suggest what is to come. The metropolises appear in the name of different occupations, they do not conceal but declare their strata, underscoring the succession of uninterrupted contemporariness. Everything becomes the building blocks of a possible tomorrow, and this becomes evident to anyone who stroll through the winding alleys of the old towns and venture into the labyrinthine itineraries between the dwellings, shreds of public spaces that teem with everything and everyone. Abandoning oneself to the image of the city therefore means to be able to capture a vision on an everyday existence that yearns to communicate. The city takes the form of an immense container with ephemeral borders, a stage where persons and objects may interrelate. The outwards appearance of every object conceals significances that evoke others, suggesting a multiple reading that corresponds to the very idea of divinity.