Architecture has been a driving force in building the twin ideologies of innovation and growth. Architecture has become the materialization of global capital. Capital’s voracious appetite forces architecture into a regime of “never enough.” Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny propose the path of “abundance” to call for a paradigm shift in architecture. They see Anupama Kundoo’s lively architecture as an ecological, material and spatial embodiment of abundance. With careful consideration of local resources, building skills, climate, and environment, she makes buildings that embody spatial beauty and soothing materiality.

Essays by international authors consider such topics as architecture and capital, carbon colonialism, extractivism, modernist utopias in urban planning, as well as architectures of caring and provide insights into Indian architectural discourses.