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Tagore Theater: Name To Design Or Design To Name

Posted in Architecture, Discussion, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Tagore Theater of Chandigarh in India, designed by Ar. Aditya Prakash, is one of the master prices of modern architecture and symbolic of Chandigarh’s architecture style.
Dr Vikramaditya Prakash of University of Washington shares the very interesting story of how the Tagore Theater of Chandigarh was designed,  built, and named. The key players here were Ar. [...]

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Aditya Prakash: The Indian Modernist

Posted in Architecture, News Ink, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 27, 2008 | 10 Comments »

On August 12, 2008 city of Chandigarh (India) lost an eminent architect, designer, painter, a theater enthusiast, academician, Le Corbusier’s associate. He was Ar. Aditya Prakash.
News Release- Aditya Prakash, Indian Modernist
He was on his way to Mumbai for staging the play Life Never Retires, created by G.S. Channi, in which he played the central [...]

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Piano to Build at Corbu’s Ronchamp Chapel

Posted in Architecture, Discussion, Historic Preservation, News Ink, Peoples' Places, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Construction plans for the site of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre Dame du Haut (1954) in Ronchamp (France) commissioned by the Association Oeuvre Notre Dame du Haut (the same organization that commissioned the chapel by Le Corbusier), has ignited a serious debate and disagreement between organizations seeking to preserve Le Corbusier’s legacy.

The New Plan. The [...]

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