“I imagine a building growing like a plant, within a landscape. The way that a building relates to the surrounding landscape can reinforce our connection with Nature, and help in small ways to restore our awareness of ecological balance,” said Didi Contractor, a radical self-taught architect who built adobe homes and institutions in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, India with respect for local materials, traditions and environments.
I first came across Didi’s work in a magazine in 2013 when I was looking for alternative ways of building during my bachelor’s degree in architecture. The elegantly ...
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