A visiting discipline

ideate Adda is when the studio shuts the laptops and pulls chairs into a loose circle for someone who has nothing to do with architecture. It started as an open-access decompression hour and has settled into something the team actually looks forward to: no agenda, no deck, just chai and a guest whose day job sits far from drawings and deadlines. A historian once walked everyone through a forgotten precinct in Delhi until the streets stopped looking familiar. A cook once turned the kitchen inside out, explaining what happens on the other side of the pass. Guests are chosen for relevance and range rather than resumes, and the only real rule is that the conversation stays loose. Adda is curiosity on a quarterly retainer, kept deliberately informal so people actually talk...