Cosmic Dance in Stone

Ramu Katakam has been a practicing architect for the last 40 years. For the past decade, he has been conducting research on the traditional architecture of India. His first book, Glimpses of Architecture in Kerala: Temples and Palaces, was published in 2006. After working and living in different parts of India, he is now settled in Goa. Clare Arni is a photographer based in Bangalore, India. Her work encompasses architecture, social documentary, and cultural heritage. She has contributed to magazines like Tatler, Wallpaper, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Design, as well as many Indian publications. She has exhibited internationally at the Essl Museum in Vienna, Austria; Grosvenor Vadehra, London; Bose Pacia, New York; and Berkeley art museum, California, and is in the permanent collections of the Saatchi Gallery, London; the Freer/Sackler gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington; and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Joginder Singh, an architect by training, specializes in architectural photography. Though he enjoys photographing modern Indian architecture, his interactions with architectural heritage leave him enchanted and enriched. Regional response, material expression, and spatial complexity coupled with an attention to detail form a part of his visual dialogue. His published works include Glimpses of Architecture in Kerala and Forts and Palaces of India.