TY - GEN AU - Prakash, Vikramaditya TI - One continuousline : art, architecture and urbanism of Aditya Prakash SN - 9788189995683 U1 - 720.92-P PY - 2020/// CY - Ahmedabad PB - Mapin Pub. KW - N1 - 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 ER -