Contents
Foreword: Antoine Wilmering
Message from the Vice Chancellor
Message from the Registrar
1. Designing Chandigarh: An Exercise In Modernism and Nation-Building —Kiran Joshi
2. Panjab University: Institutions of Modern India —Sangeeta Bagga
3. The Planning Process —Shikha Jain and Vanicka Arora
4. The Architect Office at Panjab University: Chandigarh as Explored through its Archives —Harpreet Singh
5. Interpreting Jeanneret’s Vision for Gandhi Bhawan —Shikha Jain, Suchandra Bardhan and Vanicka Arora
6. Conserving Gandhi Bhawan: Physical Assessment, Testing and Prioritization of Interventions —Bhawna Dandona
7. Looking Beyond the Present: Upgradation and Reuse of Gandhi Bhawan —Manish Sharma
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Image Credits
About the Publication
Designed by Pierre Jeanneret in 1962 to evoke a lotus flower afloat in a pond, Gandhi Bhawan— dedicated to the work of Mahatma Gandhi—is a testament to the culmination of modernism as an aesthetic, historic and intercultural movem... Read More
About the Author
Dr. Shikha Jain is a founding member and Director of Preservation and Community Design at DRONAH. She has extensive experience in heritage conservation and serves as a senior consultant to the Ministry of Culture, India. Vanicka A... Read More
