'The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985' @themuseumofmodernart looks at how post-independence architects and engineers in South Asia embodied political and social aspirations and new national identities. The show, with superb exhibition catalog, is reviewed @nytimes by @michael_kimmelman He writes, "'The Project of Independence' — organized by @martino.stierli and a team of curators and advisers — surveys Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh in the wake of the dissolution of the British Raj. It’s a sweeping, occasionally heartbreaking exhibition full of big ideas and beautiful work, too much of it not widely known." Pictured here in detail: 1. In 1956, a woman carries cement at Le Corbusier’s Capitol Complex, Chandigarh, India, in front of the Secretariat. 2. After a flood displaced slum communities in Lahore, Pakistan, the architect Yasmeen Lari created Anguri Bagh Housing (1972–73). She used local labor to construct its 787 apartments, their walls made of community-produced bricks. Interlocking spaces provide light and ventilation. 3. Minnette de Silva, climbing a ladder in 1951 to inspect concrete pillars at a house in Colombo, helped create a new architecture for the newly independent Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). 4. The Wijenayake House, designed by Minnette de Silva to respond to the tropical climate. It “treated European modernism as another tool in a toolbox already stocked with local traditions, materials and techniques" according to the Times. 5. The edenic Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Bangalore, by the architect Balkrishna V. Doshi (1977–92). Bangalore is called the Garden City of India, and Doshi built a campus where one could see and experience nature. 6. Interior view of the Hall of Nations in New Delhi, 1974. Demolished in 2017. Full review via linkinbio. #projectofindependence #postcolonialarchitecture #corbusier #chandigargh #capitolcomplex #yasmeenlari #AnguriBagh @barefootsocialarchitecture @minnettedesilva #minnettedesilva #colombo #WijenayakeHouse #tropicalarchitecture #iim #bangalore #balkrishnadoshi #balkrishnavdoshi #gardencityofindia #hallofnationsnewdelhi https://www.instagram.com/p/CapO7sYrOxb/?utm_medium=tumblr
