Chandavarkar, Prem. The Death of Architecture?. Banguluru: Musings on Architecture & Urbanism, 2019.

When we were in our late 20s, my wife and I were backpacking across Europe.  On one of our train journeys, we struck up a conversation with a middle-aged Austrian gentleman who was curious to know the places we had chosen to touch on our journey.  When we revealed that we had devoted considerable time to Paris, his eyes lit up, enthusiastically professing that Paris is a city that holds a special place in the hearts of all Europeans (this was eight years before the European Union came into being).  This sentiment is not confined to Europe.  For centuries, artists from all over the world wer