Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 186 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
Raj Rewal in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 186 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-949472-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Talking Architecture (Revised Edition) is one of the latest additions in the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's interviews of prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought. Focusing on the life, work, and ideas of Raj Rewal, one of India's leading contemporary architects, the dialogue flows effortlessly from Rewal's descriptions of his early life and experiences in Europe to discussions encompassing the aesthetic foundations of Indian architecture as well as the role of architecture in the twenty-first century. This revised edition includes an extended conversation between Rewal and Jahanbegloo and also about 40 additional visuals.
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- Innovation and Tradition: The Architecture of Raj Rewal
- PART I: FROM HOSHIARPUR TO PARIS
- A Temple within Self
- Gandhi and the Partition
- Discovering Architecture
- Discovering Europe
- Exploring Theatre
- An Unusual Marriage
- The Challenge of Le Corbusier
- PART II: THINKING ARCHITECTURE
- The Perennial and the Ephemeral
- What is Secular Architecture?
- City of Dreams
- A Senseless Ugliness
- Thinking Cities Today
- The Input of Heritage
- Builders or Architects?
- PART III: RASA IN ARCHITECTURE
- The Concept of Rasa
- Civilized Art and Primitive Art
- Celebrating Diversity
- BL Does an Asian Architecture Exist?
- PART IV: CLASH OR ASSIMILATION OF ARCHITECTURAL VALUES
- Globalization and the Ethics of Architecture
- An Indian Vision of the World
- Dialogue among Cultures
- The Spirit of Location
- The Ethics of Architecture
- The Game of Light
- The Dialectic of Interior and Exterior
- Spiritualizing
- Architecture
- Conceptualizing Islamic Architecture
- Living Architecture
- PART V: ICONIC FORMS AND SYMBOLS
- Credits
