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ISBN | 9788189995683 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2020 |
Bib. Info | 292 pages, 337 colour photographs and 59 drawings; 29cm. includes index. |
Product Weight | 2080 gms. |
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Aditya Prakash (1924–2008) belonged to the first generation of Indian modernists that came into its own in the Nehruvian era. Built around a multidisciplinary oeuvre that was unique amongst his peers, Prakash’s life was dedicated to finding the “one continuous line” which linked art— as the search for the beautiful, architecture—as the enabler of life, and planning—as the ethic of protecting the interests of poor. Interspersed with a series of visual essays, this book is conceived as an introduction to Prakash’s vast body of work. Besides practising architecture, he was an academic, a prolific painter, sculptor, furniture designer, stage set-designer, poet and public speaker. This volume documents Prakash’s education as an architect in Delhi and London, his early modernist works, his deep artistic impulses, his love of theatre, and his eorts to rally a culture of academic inquiry. The narrative describes his successes and failures, his arguments for and against modernism, postmodernism and globalization, and his passion for sustainable urbanism, the animal and the acoustic. The book concludes with an interpretive essay on Prakash’s life and legacy, along with lavish illustrations of a portfolio of select works.