Koodaaram: the Pavilion at Cabral Yard, Kochi Biennale 2018

During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, an open structure inspired by the traditional Koothambalam served as a space for performance and lectures as well as one for conversations, to exchange thoughts and ideas, and engage in debate and discussion. Designed by Madhav Raman, Anagram Architects in conversation and in collaboration with the curator of the 2018 Biennale edition, Anita Dube, this structure is not only an example of technological and craftsmanship experiments but also how an idea struggles and gains fruition through a design as it develops into a building

Critic Kaiwan Mehta in his review says “The pavilion comes as a new journey from an old conversation — when the architects at Anagram and the artist Anita Dube discussed, debated and designed an artist-house which would also be a homely museum space, and a cultural space for collectives, located in one of the urban developments on the outskirts of Delhi. The emergent design there challenged many ideas — what is a home? How do we respond to new urban situations emerging today, positively? How do we understand safety and culture? How does our culture connect and disconnect — with people, with colleagues, with neighbours? How does the artist think architecture, and how does the architect take forward the challenge to rethink architecture? What does architecture tell us about the contemporary?”