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Known as the revolutionary architect of India Raj Rewal made an impression worldwide embarking on his design philosophies which speak for himself. His love for geometric and grid systems breaks the monotony in architecture. The blending of the traditional inference to modern context is his trump card in design. He completed his education in Delhi and London, he also worked in Michel Ecochard’s office which is located in Paris before when he was to initiate his practice in Delhi. A man full of ambition the spaces speak for himself. Structures designed by him include pure structural expression and cubic masses. The design provides a certain honesty with the surrounding. They speak towards sensitive climatic changes. Beautifully crafted with geometric forms and grid pattern Raj Rewal speak for the Indians. He always attempts to blend traditional architecture with contemporary concepts. He has been influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier and Louis Khan. Constructed in 1982 in New Delhi, the Asian Games Village was designed to accommodate the Asian Games athletes, units that would later be sold to the public. The type-based design brief for 500 units in a 35-acre plot was created by an urban pattern of low-rise, high-density development representative of the typical Indian ‘mohalla ’ or community, creating cluster formations ideal for the Indian climate, stepping away from the norm of hitherto seen stereotypical units by introducing variance in scale and elements. The concept is based on arrangement of narrow shaded pedestrian streets sequentially linking clusters, open spaces and commercial and recreational areas. A sense of enclosure and continuity is maintained throughout the scheme with points of rest and changing vistas lending it visual interludes. With a mix of streets and squares a ‘theatre of the street’ has been created, where public interaction can spill from their immediate spaces as neighbours into a community, and works towards making them active participants and not just viewers. Located about 70 kilometres from Delhi, the Visual Arts Institutional Campus is in the suburbs of Rohtak, a city waking up to its potential and undergoing massive changes as an envisaged educational hub for its youth. The mammoth scheme is not only one of Rewal’s largest projects but also, he points out, one of the most interesting project briefs after the Parliamentary Library in New Delhi (AR October 2002). The ambitious programme combines state-of-the art teaching institutions for architecture, fashion, film and television and fine arts in a single campus. With the aim of being one of the best of its kind in north India, the project also sets out to build a cross-disciplinary culture of knowledge where students can intermingle and collaborate to expand their minds, ideas and resources. Read less