Chandigarh travel guide
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Chandigarh Architectural Travel Guide Chandigarh is a unique city, besides being one of the newest city of the twentieth century that is characterized by the seal of Le Corbusier, who planned the city and was also the architect of its most emblematic buildings. In Chandigarh, you will also find the work of a large team of architects led by the partner of Le Corbusier,(...)
Chandigarh travel guide
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Chandigarh Architectural Travel Guide Chandigarh is a unique city, besides being one of the newest city of the twentieth century that is characterized by the seal of Le Corbusier, who planned the city and was also the architect of its most emblematic buildings. In Chandigarh, you will also find the work of a large team of architects led by the partner of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret who along with the British Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew conducted the master plan and built public housing and facilities much needed in the city.
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The 'Modernism in India' Series documents the extensive heritage of modernism and modern architecture in India.
January 2014
The architecture of Shivdatt Sharma
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The 'Modernism in India' Series documents the extensive heritage of modernism and modern architecture in India.
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Vikramaditya Prakash tells the fascinating story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Chandigarh. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the city, where he grew up as the son of one of the nine Indian architects who assisted in designing Chandigarh, Prakash brings to light stories of town planners, bureaucrats, and architects vying over the colonial past and(...)
Chandigarh's Le Corbusier : the struggle for modernity in postcolonial India
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Vikramaditya Prakash tells the fascinating story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Chandigarh. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the city, where he grew up as the son of one of the nine Indian architects who assisted in designing Chandigarh, Prakash brings to light stories of town planners, bureaucrats, and architects vying over the colonial past and the symbolic future of India.
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May 2002
Architecture Monographs
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This book ''deconstructs'' a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory. The information is presented along four vectors - atoms, labors, sources and ingredients. Though remarkably detailed, the book contends that a huge proportion of what we ''know'' about the house is unknowable, not because ou epistemological(...)
Architecture Monographs
March 2023
A house deconstructed: Office of (Un)certainty research
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This book ''deconstructs'' a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory. The information is presented along four vectors - atoms, labors, sources and ingredients. Though remarkably detailed, the book contends that a huge proportion of what we ''know'' about the house is unknowable, not because ou epistemological instruments aren't strong enough or calibrated precisely enough, but because things themselves are indeterminate, uncertain.
Architecture Monographs
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Spanning from 3,500 BCE to the present, and organized along a global timeline, this unique guide was written by experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts, and influences of architectural movements throughout history and around the world. Fully updated and revised to reflect current scholarship, this third edition features expanded chapter(...)
April 2017
A global history of architecture, third edition
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Spanning from 3,500 BCE to the present, and organized along a global timeline, this unique guide was written by experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts, and influences of architectural movements throughout history and around the world. Fully updated and revised to reflect current scholarship, this third edition features expanded chapter introductions that set the stage for a global view, as well as: an expanded section on contemporary global architecture, more coverage of non-Western cultures, particularly South Asia, South East Asia Pre-Columbian America, and Africa. New drawings and maps by the iconic Francis D.K. Ching, as well as more stunning photographs. An updated companion website with digital learning tools and Google Earth mapping service coordinates that make it easier to find sites. Art and architecture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in architectural history, will have 5,000 years of the built environment perpetually at their fingertips with "A global history of architecture, third edition".