These essays “may be read not only as a chronicle of the gradual shift in my own positions on architecture – from a committed ‘modernist’ to a believer in the essential value of traditional wisdom – but also as a reflection of the currents and undercurrents within the mainstream on the larger canvas of architecture, not only in Pakistan, but within the region and at a global level. From these changing positions the issues of modernity and tradition have been examined against such questions as development, economic, political and cultural domination, national liberation and identity.”

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