Vikramaditya Prakash (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)

Broschiertes Buch

Le Corbusier's Chandigarh Revisited

Preservation as Future Modernism

Beschreibung

Written by an esteemed scholar and former resident of the city, this fascinating book re-evaluates Le Corbusierâ s work in Chandigarh in terms of the pressing challenges of the present, in particular climate change, globalization, neo-nationalism and information technology.

Autor

Vikramaditya Prakash (BArch, Panjab University, India; MA, PhD, Cornell University, USA) is Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle, with Adjunct appointments in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Planning and in Digital Arts and Experimental Media. Vikram is host of the ArchitectureTalk podcast and co-design lead of the conceptual design practice O(U)R: Office of (Un)certainty Research. His books include Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India; Colonial Modernities (co-edited with Peter Scriver); The Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma; Chandigarh: An Architectural Guide; One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash; Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial (co-edited with Maristella Casciato and Daniel Coslett); and A House Deconstructed (co-authored with Mark Jarzombek). Vikram was recognized as ACSA Distinguished Professor in 2021.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 142mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781032447254
• ISBN-10: 1032447257
• Artikelnr.: 68100424