The Sheltering Angle

Speaker: Asha and Prabhakar Baste

Date: November 3, 1997
Venue: NCPA, Mumbai

Asha and Prabhakar Baste are Mumbai-based architects who have been doing mainly residential projects in the hot, humid Western coastal region of Maharashtra and Goa for the last twenty years.

A family of sloping roofs huddled amidst natural surroundings constitutes the image of `home’ in this region. The essence of Bastes’ very contemporary buildings is in providing a sense of shelter, both physical and emotional while keeping in step with the vernacular images of the region.