The Structure explores the work of Mahendra Raj, India’s most significant structural engineer. Examining Raj’s sixty prolific years of practice, this volume looks at his unusually inventive and intuitive work and how he has offered pioneering engineering solutions for buildings in exposed concrete.
As this book shows, many of his structures can be seen as monuments narrating the history of architecture in post-independence India.
The Structure features twenty-eight of Mahendra Raj’s buildings in detail through rich photographs and color reproductions of archival plans. Essays are contributed by Raj himself and by the architects Neelkanth Chhaya and Jaimini Mehta. Also included are interviews with Raj by the architect Sanjay Prakash and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, a conversation with the architect BV Doshi, as well as an illustrated complete list of Raj’s works.
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- "Save the Hall of Nations" - An exhibition of photographs and drawings by Raj Rewal and Mahendra Raj, Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 02:15
- Presentation, Hall of Nations and Nehru Pavilion. Permanent Exhibition Complex, Delhi, 1971-72. New Delhi: Kiran Nader Museum of Art, 2017.
- Hall of Nations and Nehru Pavilion. Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, 1972.