problems. Thus, under MIT'sguidance Kharagpur gave little importance to courses such as the history of architecture and evenless to a study of Indian society, for technology was universal and transcended cultural differences. Itwas not only the presence and importance given to technical courses that mattered in architecture,the study of design too was s subjected to the same deterministic attitude and reduced to functionalrationalism. A house was not only a machine to live in but its form was valid only to the extent of itscapacity to answer to certain programmatic criteria. Paradoxically, this created an interestingsituation; late Prof. Kurula Varkey, a Kharagpur alumnus was to remark that it was this absence ofhumanities and liberal arts
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