Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma by Vikramaditya Prakash First book of the Modernism in India Series Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma (Mapin Publishing Ahmedabad, India) is released, by Mr. K. K. [...]
“On the 17th of December 2010 Muhammed Bouazizi set himself on fire and precipitated protests that spread throughout Tunisia and then the region. Bouazizi’s protest suicide took place not [...]
Small and mid-sized cities are where most of the urban growth will take place in the coming decades. Yet literature tends to focus only on X and XL cities. Mega-cities, I would submit, capture the [...]
Cityscapes – Chandigarh – YouTube. Here is a recent video made by the Government of India’s Ministry of External Affairs on Chandigarh….the official party line. [...]
Source: Uploaded by user via Vikramāditya on Pinterest An archival image of the chairs of Tagore Theatre, with the architect, Aditya Prakash, sitting in them watching a play – he is in the [...]
VIDEO PART I VIDEO PART II Its mostly in Hindi and Panjabi, but this is a good discussion on representative democracy, and lack of, in Chandigarh. Historical issues, specifically the creation of [...]
Here is a video of the dis-assembly of a model of Le Corbusier’s Assembly building. The model was made by a class of students in a seminar on Indian Modernism. I have matched the video to [...]