Becoming Hafeez Contractor: The Making of an Architect by Harshad Bhatia. Published in 2019 by HarperCollins Publishers, A-75, Sector 57, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201301; website: www.harpercollins.co.in. Pp: xii+ 375. Price: Rs 699.
Hafeez Contractor has undoubtedly been one of the most illustrious and forceful characters on the architecture scene in India over the last couple of decades, and surely his biography should have been no less than a thriller. I say this with deep thought because the practice of architecture is indeed a roller-coaster ride maneuvering between the present time, ideas, land politics, political vagaries, economic developments and social changes. Plus,......