Contents
Acknowledgements 11
Foreword by Maristella Casciato 15
Chronology 18
Timeline 19
INTRODUCTION 24
FROM MUZAFFARNAGAR TO LONDON 32
The Franconia 40
London 41
Return to India 46
The Chandigarh capital project team 52
Interrogating the ‘modern Style’ 66
Learning From the ‘master’ 72
Frame Control and the Indian Modular 76
Tagore Theatre 86
Structure and its Expression 94
Furniture 98
DESIGNING THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION 106
Campus Planning and Design 111
Argus and Rolleiflex 118
The Urge to Sculpture 132
Beginning to Paint 138
PRINCIPAL, CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE 148
Research Cells 154
Energy Crisis: The Self-Sustaining Linear City Vision 164
The Animal 172
Writing in Free Verse 185
Abhinet and Tagore-iterates 188
The Painting Studio 201
The Undoing of Postmodemism 214
ON HIS OWN 222
Arcon Architects 226
The Animal, Again 232
Indic Motifs 240
The Female Form, and the Lingam 250
The New Millenium 259
Our Get-Together 264
Zindagi Retire Nahin Hoti 265
CONCLUSION: GLOBAL MODERNISM 270
Nehruvian Global Modernist 273
Diffractive Modernism 277