Dear Reader,

Good Morning.

On Sunday 7 December we will host the Bombay Imagined second edition book launch at the Urbs Indis Library. If you are in Bangalore, please consider joining us! The afternoon will begin at 12 noon with an informal meet and greet and a book signing, followed by an interactive Walkthrough at 3 pm. This Walkthrough will be the first that directly explores the links between Mumbai’s unbuilt past, and the built present that is our home I studio I library in Krishnappa Garden, Bangalore.

We are very excited about this new experience, and to understand why I need to share a bit of the backstory….

Earlier this year, Ruturaj Parikh of Matter called and asked if I would be open to speaking at the Frame Conclave in Goa. The theme of the conference was “To Draw.” Over the months that followed, I crafted a presentation that connected my earliest experiences of focused blind contour drawing, in high school, to speculation sketches for Bombay Imagined during the Pandemic, and then closed with more recent architectural drawings. As the presentation evolved, I slowly discovered that many ideas embedded in Bombay’s unrealised past have quietly, and in their own unique way, found expression at the Urbs Indis Library in Bangalore. With trembling, as always, I shared these thoughts in Goa, and after the conference Ruturaj Parikh sent me the following note:

And just like that, a new world opened in my mind. A world in which architecture and writing, buildings and books, are not separate, but are complementary creative pursuits that enrich one another. The Bombay Imagined second edition launch at the Urbs Indis Library will attempt to extend this revelation into the flesh as an interactive Walkthrough.

We hop you can make it! Register here.​

Incase you are not able to make it for the launch, we hope to see you at a book-related event, or a Walkthrough soon:

Sunday 7 December: Book Launch and Walkthrough at UIL, Bangalore​
​Sat 3 January: Walkthrough #26 at UIL, Bangalore
​Friday 16 January: Illustrated Talk in Navi Mumbai
​Thursday 29 January: Talk in Vadodara
​Sunday 1 February: Illustrated Talk in Bangalore
​Sunday 8 February: Walkthrough #27 at UIL, Bangalore
​Saturday 21 February: Illustrated Talk in Goa

Feel free to get in touch if you would like to organize a talk in your town / space!

I hope to see you at one of these events soon!

Smiles,
Robert

PS: If you have not preordered your copy of the Bombay Imagined second edition, you can do so here. Prices go up from Monday, and books ship in the first week of December.