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History of Architecture-II (AP-313)
REGIONALISM in INDIA
&
SEARCH FOR INDIAN-NESS
LECTURE 7
[Online]
History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Regionalism and Nipesh P Indian-ness
Search for Narayanan
WHAT IS REGIONALISM?
• 1964
– Exhibition at MoMA (NY)
[Online]
Hyderabad, Pakistan
History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Regionalism and Search for Indian-ness
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PAUL OLIVER SHELTER SIGN & SYMBOL
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1977
History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Regionalism and Search for Indian-ness
HASSAN FATHY VERNACULAR PRACTICE
• Traitional Craft
Modernism/Internationalism Vs Regionalism
Renaming Roads
Removal of Statues
Renaming Roads
Removal of Statues
• Post-Independence India
– Nehruvian vision of a modern India
• Modernism in India
– Le Corbusier, Otto Königsberger etc.
• Mahatma Gandhi
– Romance of the village
– “India lives in its villages”
• Mahatma Gandhi
– Romance of the village
– “India lives in its villages”
• Revival of literature
– Sanskrit and the Vedas
• Mahatma Gandhi
– Romance of the village
– “India lives in its villages”
• Revival of literature
– Sanskrit and the Vedas
Jaisalmer
REGIONALISM IN INDIA – RAJ REWAL
Morphology
CONCRETE
Jaisalmer
REGIONALISM IN INDIA – RAJ REWAL
Terraces
CONCRETE
Jaisalmer
REGIONALISM IN INDIA – RAJ REWAL
CONCRETE
Street
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CONCRETE
Cluster
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Artist Village, Belapur, Navi Mumbai (1983)
History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Regionalism and Search for Indian-ness
REGIONALISM IN INDIA – CHARLES CORREA
CONCRETE
Cluster
Space
Space
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British Council, New Delhi (1987)
History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Regionalism and Search for Indian-ness
REGIONALISM IN INDIA – CHARLES CORREA
ABSTRACT
• Modernizing India
– Technical & Higher Education
• Modernizing India
– Technical & Higher Education
• Post-Partition Migration
– Housing and Infrastructural needs
• Post-Partition Migration
– Housing and Infrastructural needs
• Decentralized Industries
– Industrial Towns
• Post-Partition Migration
– Housing and Infrastructural needs
• Decentralized Industries
– Industrial Towns
• Post-Partition Migration
– Housing and Infrastructural needs
• Decentralized Industries
– Industrial Towns
• Extended Bureaucracy
– New Government offices
– Institutional Interventions
Urban Vs Rural
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Rabindra Bhawan, Habib Rehman (1961)
History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Regionalism and Search for Indian-ness
BILATERAL TIES WHICH GOT IN ARCHITECTS
• 1945 - AICTE
– All India Council for Technical Education, formed on RIBA
framework
• 1962 - CEPT
– Center for Environmental Planning and Technology – B V Doshi
& Bernard Kohn
– Christopher Alexander was a visiting faculty and work on
‘Pattern Language’ started by studying villages of India.
Jon Lang, Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai. 1997. Architecture and Independence.
s.l. : Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195639006.