"Architectural homogenization is gradually stripping buildings of their contextual vocabulary, resulting in buildings that fade away with time and are ignorant of their environments. For countries such as ours, aspiring for universal measures of comfort derived from the West to create solutions for the Indian context is potentially disastrous. It became self-evident to us at Studio Lotus that looking inwards and discovering extant systems, evaluating climatic responses and employing local building practices was the path forward -- and that is where for us became about reinterpreting vernacular wisdom and celebrating context", says Ambrish Arora