Christopher Benninger : architecture for modern India / editor, Rosa Maria Falvo ; curator and editor Ramprasad Akkisetti.

Title & Author:

Christopher Benninger : architecture for modern India / editor, Rosa Maria Falvo ; curator and editor Ramprasad Akkisetti.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Milano : Skira editore S.p.A ; Balewadi, India : India House Art Gallery, 2015.

Description:

383 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-379).
Forty-four years in India / Christopher Benninger -- Work spaces -- Public spaces -- Institutions -- Current projects -- Competition projects -- Planning and urbanism.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

American born and raised, Christopher Benninger is one of India's most highly decorated architects. His career spans four decades in prominent roles : as an institution builder, UN and World Bank consultant advising governments, expert in social planning and low cost housing in Jamnagar, Chennai, Hyderabad, and master architect, designing major institutions in India. His award winning projects include the Mahindra United World College of India, Samundra Institute of Maritime Studies, YMCA Camp Site at Nilshi, Suzlon One Earth, and his own studio residence, India House in Pune. Graduating in architecture from Harvard University where he later taught, Benninger completed further studies in urban planning at MIT and settled in India in 1971, founding the School of Planning in Ahmedabad where he remains an active distinguished professor. His name appears alongside Geoffrey Bawa, Charles Correa, and Balkrishna Doshi as one of the few recipients of the Great Master Architect Award in India presented every three years-- Source other than Library of Congress.

ISBN:

9788857226873 (cloth)
8857226875 (cloth)

Subject:

Benninger, Christopher, 1942-
Benninger, Christopher,
Christopher Charles Benninger Architects.
Architecture India History 20th century.
Architecture India History 21st century.
Architectural design History.
Architecture Inde Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Inde Histoire 21e siècle.
Design architectural Histoire.
Architecture History India 20th century.
Architecture History India 21st century.
Architectural design.
Architecture.
Architecture and Planning.
India.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Falvo, Rosa Maria, editor.
Akkisetti, Ramprasad, curator, editor.
Benninger, Christopher, 1942- Works. Selections. 2015.
Falvo, Rosa Maria editor.
Akkisetti, Ramprasad curator, editor.
India House Art Gallery, issuing body.

Architecture for modern India

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292493
Call No.: BIB 236811
Status: Available

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