Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Maristella Casciato
Chronology
Timeline
INTRODUCTION
1. FROM MUZAFFARNAGAR TO LONDON
2. FROM MUZAFFARNAGAR TO LONDON: The Franconia
3. FROM MUZAFFARNAGAR TO LONDON: London
4. FROM MUZAFFARNAGAR TO LONDON: Return to India
5. THE CHANDIGARH CAPITAL PROJECT TEAM
6. THE CHANDIGARH CAPITAL PROJECT TEAM: Interrogating the ‘Modern Style’
7. THE CHANDIGARH CAPITAL PROJECT TEAM: Learning from the ‘Master’
8. THE CHANDIGARH CAPITAL PROJECT TEAM: Frame Control and the Indian Modulor
9. THE CHANDIGARH CAPITAL PROJECT TEAM: Tagore Theatre
10. THE CHANDIGARH CAPITAL PROJECT TEAM: Structure and its Expression
11. THE CHANDIGARH CAPITAL PROJECT TEAM: Furniture
12. DESIGNING THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
13. DESIGNING THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION : Campus Planning and Design
14. DESIGNING THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: Argus and Rolleiflex
15. DESIGNING THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: The Urge to Sculpture
16. DESIGNING THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: Beginning to Paint
17. PRINCIPAL, CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
18. PRINCIPAL, CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE: Research Cells
19. PRINCIPAL, CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE: Energy Crisis: The Self-Sustaining Linear City Vision
20. PRINCIPAL, CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE: The Animal
21. PRINCIPAL, CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE: Writing in Free Verse
22. PRINCIPAL, CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE: Abhinet and Tagore-iterates
23. PRINCIPAL, CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE: The Painting Studio
24. PRINCIPAL, CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE: The Undoing of Postmodernism
25. ON HIS OWN
26. ON HIS OWN: Arcon Architects
27. ON HIS OWN: The Animal, Again
28. ON HIS OWN: Indic Motifs
29. ON HIS OWN: The Female Form, and the Lingam
30. ON HIS OWN: The New Millenium
31. ON HIS OWN: Our Get-Together
32. ON HIS OWN: Zindagi Retire Nahin Hoti
CONCLUSION: GLOBAL MODERNISM
CONCLUSION: GLOBAL MODERNISM: Nehruvian Global Modernist
CONCLUSION: GLOBAL MODERNISM: Diffractive Modernism
About the Publication
Aditya Prakash (1924–2008) belonged to the first generation of Indian modernists that came into its own in the Nehruvian era. Built around a multidisciplinary oeuvre, which was unique amongst his peers, Prakash’s life was dedicate... Read More
About the Author
Vikramaditya Prakash, an architect, architectural historian and theorist, is Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle.
