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1. Hall of Nations, Transposed!

   ... It has become wearisome, this eight years' worth of near-identical conversation in professional circles, news reports, court cases built around the Hall of Nations, always with a referent in some entrenched branches ...

   Architexturez - 2017-03-17 07:30

2. Hall of Nations needs a Goan vacation

   ... Aζ South Asia architexturez.net Hall of Nations needs a Goan vacation ...

   Architexturez - 2018-06-18 07:05

3. Monuments to a nation’s journey

   ....  It seems reasonable, therefore, to expect that some of these facilities will require upgrading from time to time ... is how do we want to move forward, and what, if any, of the past do we wish to carry forward with us? It is ... and the journey by which to arrive at it. What do we know of the existing facilities, and how do we decide what to hold ...

   Architexturez - 2017-02-15 04:10

4. Tearing down an icon

   .... The death of the Hall of Nations may well be the death of the government’s slogan ... did not receive was a scheme that could have preserved the Hall of Nations while achieving the India Trade Promotion ...

   Architexturez - 2017-05-17 02:27

5. In fact: Why a landmark’s razing could be Delhi’s Penn Station moment

   *** Over the decades, however, the concrete fingers of the building have seen patinas of neglect and inertia coat ... the “non-building” Rewal designed along with the Hall of Nations, within whose grassy mounds and Buddhist imagery are ...

   Architexturez - 2016-03-09 15:06

6. Bharat Mandapam: Decoding the building

   Along with these political meanings, the Hall of Nations had inherent formal meanings. The building was a ...

   Architexturez - 2023-07-27 08:42

7. Take the Fire Exit

   Over the last eight months, the Hall of Nations has been in news for its imminent demolition. While ...

   Architexturez - 2017-03-29 11:17

8. Kids joining hands for something which is not free WIFI for the first time

   Throw back to a lot of insane compositions by waters & Gilmor when i got first introduced to this master piece of a project. we need you Hall of Nation [  #HON  ] Image by :  Pink Floyd  &  ...

   Architexturez - 2018-06-18 07:07

9. To win recognition, China's smaller cities bet on starchitecture

   From egg-shaped concert halls to skyscrapers reminiscent of big pairs of pants, China’s top cities are  famously full of curious monuments to architectural ambition . But as land ...

   Architexturez - 2017-03-19 06:32

10. Slumming India: A chronicle of slums and their saviours

    ... South Asia architexturez.net Slumming India: a chronicle of slums and their saviours (DOCX) Slumming India: A chronicle of slums and their saviours ...

    Architexturez - 2013-05-05 06:15

11. A Flawed MoMA Exhibition Erases the Social Context of South Asian Modernism

    Foregrounding the emergence of regional reinterpretations of Euro-American modernism, the ... demolition, lamented in the exhibition, of Delhi’s  Hall of Nations  and  Halls of Industries  at Pragati Maidan? ...

    Architexturez - 2022-02-07 04:11

12. Kanye West, the Concert

    Hall of Nations. ITPO doesn't want it, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry thinks it holds no currency, and the ...

    Architexturez - 2018-06-18 07:05

13. Why Bharat Mandapam is better than the pyramids

    In the case of the redevelopment of Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, criticism of the demolition of the Hall of Nations and other concrete pyramids designed by Raj Rewal ...

    Architexturez - 2023-07-27 08:37

14. China’s Ban on “Weird” Architecture Is a Global Power Play

    The Chinese Communist Party has always been keenly aware of the propaganda value of architecture. In the 1950s and 1960s, following Mao’s ... form, socialist content” became the planning motto of the day. .... The state’s priorities have shifted yet ...

    Architexturez - 2016-02-29 14:54

15. What makes an artless museum? [Archinect]

    ... are completely overtaken by them . One particular version of this took place during a 2010 visit to the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, where in the museum’s main hall, I wandered into Roman Ondák’s " It Will All Turnout ... replica of the interior of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The Tate’s interior is objectified as an art object, ...

    Architexturez - 2015-06-24 15:22

16. The Unexpectedly Tropical History of Brutalism

    ... breath, or a heart pumping blood through an infinite loop of ventricles. “I decided to make no dead ends,” the ... overnight demolition two years ago of Raj Rewal’s Hall of Nations, a Brutalist masterpiece completed in New Delhi in ...

    Architexturez - 2018-11-14 05:06

17. Are copies coming in from the cold?

    .... By charting the institutional fortunes of architectural plaster casts, from the genesis of architectural museums in the early 19th century to the ... collection (left to the nation in 1837) to the Hall of Architecture at the Carnegie Museum of Art, ...

    Architexturez - 2018-02-07 04:12

18. Another Nehruvian legacy is under attack – Delhi's iconic buildings, says photographer Ram Rahman

    ... Modern Moment” in Mumbai last month, Ram Rahman spoke of this iconic Delhi architecture – built between the 1950s ... built in the early 1970s – which includes the iconic Hall of Nations and the Nehru Pavilion. For Rahman, these plans ...

    Architexturez - 2016-01-04 16:32

19. Brash abominations or architectural evolution?

    Adity Chakravarti’s labour of love documenting old houses in her blog has finally been ... the urges of those powers who guided the destinies of nations, and are thus invaluable too. The faux Rajput Hotel ... A case in point is the now-obliterated Chanakya cinema hall. ... There is also talk of reducing the Lutyens Bungalow ...

    Architexturez - 2017-02-19 14:40

20. Urban India didn't care about migrant workers till 26 March, only cares now because it's lost their services

    ... a workforce as huge as the one in India, what do you think of the communication of governments to workers? We gave a nation of 1.3 billion human beings four hours to shut down their ...

    Architexturez - 2020-05-11 05:37

21. Sataire: BAIT UR ROUF MOSQUE: AN AESTHETIC AND INCLUSIVE SPACE

    In the increasingly dense neighbourhood of Faidabad, Uttara, a humble brick structure outshines the ... brick walls ensure that the temperature inside the prayer hall is significantly cooler, a welcome relief in the ... sometimes women come and pray to the side of the prayer hall or in the small space upstairs (earmarked for a library ...

    Architexturez - 2017-05-26 01:27

22. Cities - How Dakar (Almost) Got Its First Municipal Bond to Market

    ... first for cities in Senegal, as well as the great majority of Africa's nations. Dakar was about to sell a municipal bond. A launch ... was planned for Thursday afternoon at Dakar's City Hall. But before it could begin, celebration turned into ...

    Architexturez - 2015-02-21 14:38

23. Outrage: Louis Kahn’s IIM dormitories face demolition

    ... disaster capitalism, then enroll at the Indian Institute of Management of Ahmedabad (IIMA). They use the Harvard ... worried. A couple of years ago  Raj Rewal’s magisterial Hall of Nations (1973) in New Delhi was demolished in murky ...

    Architexturez - 2020-12-27 08:51

24. Re: [in-enaction] The Farrel Review: Berkeley’s response to the Farrell Review:

    ... We work together with other people to tackle the shortage of good quality homes, and we make a lasting contribution to ... to building enough to house the entire population of Cambridge. Between 2008 and 2012, 96% of Berkeley developments were on brownfield land. In the last ...

    Architexturez - 2013-09-29 09:00

25. CFP - Building Practices in Transcontinental Migration

    ... the built environment as a whole and a ‘global history of building practices’ gains pace, agents other than the ... transnational practices often tangential to the discipline of architecture; geographical and professional boundaries ... Transcontinental mass migration, an essential conduit of such practices, has been little considered in the history ...

    Architexturez - 2014-05-03 04:51

26. Break in India

    ... Delhi is a wasted derelict pile. Besides serious problems of pollution, overcrowding, insecurity, lack of utilities, ... code. The recent demolition of architect Raj Rewal's Hall of Nations, a concrete structure built to commemorate 25 years ...

    Architexturez - 2017-05-09 03:50

27. CONF: Architektur als Streitsache / Architecture as Matter of Contention (Aachen, 29-31 Jan 15)

    ... conference “Streitsache: Architecture as Matter of Contention” intends to probe the complex relation ... instances in which architectural objects become objects of conflict, ‘bones of contention, a Streitsache. Conceiving of architecture as a ...

    Architexturez - 2015-01-17 07:27

28. Living with the future in South Asia

    .... What would a similar approach to the archives of modern architecture reveal? It should, in the first place, ... this grim reckoning in his catalogue essay. The demolished Hall of Nations, he writes, is now a “lost temple” to Indian ...

    Architexturez - 2022-02-07 04:09

29. Introduction to Whitewash!

    The government line is 'unity in diversity', of secularism of religious faith and personal beliefs, something that also ... is said that the 20th century was the most creative period of human history; its 100 years saw changes in governance, ...

    Yogesh Patel - 2013-05-31 05:46

30. Architectural Training and Research in the Foreign Aid-Funded Knowledge Economy, 1950s-1980s

    ... the 1950s to the late 1980s, the politics and economies of foreign aid – instigated by both the ‘capitalist ... to a whole infrastructure destined to assist the progress of ‘developing countries’ on their ‘path to ... various North-South exchanges that took place in the name of ‘development’ have left a deep imprint on the ...

    Architexturez - 2021-01-21 15:17

31. Charles Jencks, historian of late-modern architecture, dies

    ... , written in 1969 with George Baird,  The Language of Post-Modern Architecture  written in 1971,  Adhocism ... 1993,  The Iconic Building  from 2005, and  The Story of Post-Modernism  from 2011. architexturez_net ... Aζ South Asia architexturez.net Charles Jencks, historian of late-modern architecture, dies ...

    Architexturez - 2016-02-10 13:52

32. Society of Architectural Historians 2020 Annual International Conference

    Architects on Stage: Alternative Sites of Discursive Formation This session looks at the medium of lectures, talks, and speeches as an alternative site of discursive formation that challenges the primacy of ...

    Architexturez - 2019-04-04 01:55

33. Society of Architectural Historians 2018 Annual International Conference

    LIST OF PAPER SESSIONS A Matter of Life and Death: Spaces for ... the Peruvian government in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program illustrates the latter. This ... The Weather Project  filled Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with the sublime atmosphere of a setting sun. While the ...

    Architexturez - 2017-04-30 04:39

34. CfP: EAHN 4, Dublin, 2-4 June 2016, deadline 30 Sept 2015

    ... dans l’antiquité”, and that by studying the ruins of Pompeii first-­‐hand “one immediately knows more than ... at Urbana-Champaign 611 Lorado Taft Dr. 117 Temple Buell Hall, MC-621 Champaign, IL  61820 USA +1 217 333 1331 cupers ... as geographical referent may not be so easily separated. Nations and regions, rather than continents, have tended to ...

    Architexturez - 2015-04-19 08:19

35. Session at CAA: "Design Museums: The New Wave" (New York, 15 - 18 Feb 17)

    ... that time, they were most often assembled under the rubric of decorative or industrial art and aimed towards audiences of design students and the artisan and manufacturing classes. Beginning in the mid-1970s with the establishment of the Museum der Dinge and the Cooper Hewitt, and more ...

    Architexturez - 2016-08-18 03:43

36. Indore's Habitat Improvement Project: success or failure?

    ... in Indore, a million plus city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, was implemented during 1990-97 at a cost ... work started in March 1990 23 , the first community hall was inaugurated in August 24 and by December, 40 ... management with reference to the fact that the community hall inaugurated with much fanfare remained unused for months ...

    Yogesh Patel - 2013-05-31 09:30

37. Notes on the Ethics of Studying Vernacular Architecture

    Introduction The study of vernacular architecture is a discipline with a relatively short history, beginning in the second half of the twentieth century with seminal milestones such as the ... House, Form and Culture . Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Rudofsky, B., 1964. Architecture Without Architects: A ...

    Architexturez - 2013-05-19 10:54

38. Halocaust: the architecture of counter insurgency

    27.01.2011, Chabaurji Lahore: It was the hand of the victim pointing towards the car in the middle of the busy road that lead people to identify where the shots ... a certain action from the pedestrians who took charge of the situation as they arranged themselves around the crime ...

    Architexturez - 2013-05-30 19:09