Talking architecture: raj rewal in conversation with ramin jahanbegloo

Iranian scholar Ramin Jahanbegloo interviews one of India's leading contemporary architects, Raj Rewal, and in the process, addresses issues encompassing architecture in the twenty-first century, the aesthetic foundations of Indian architecture, and Rewal's work to present challenging ideas on the role of an Indian architect in a global context. INDICE: PART I: FROM HOSHIARPUR TO PARIS-A Temple within Self; Gandhi and the Partition; Discovering Architecture; Discovering Europe; Exploring Theatre; An Unusual Marriage; The Challenge of Le Corbusier ; PART II: THINKING ARCHITECTURE-The Perennial and the Ephemeral; What is Secular Architecture?; City of Dreams; A Senseless Ugliness; Thinking Cities Today; The Input of Heritage; Builders or Architects? ; PART III: RASA IN ARCHITECTURE-The Concept of Rasa; Civilized Art and Primitive Art; Celebrating Diversity; Does an Asian Architecture Exist? ; PART IV: CLASH OR ASSIMILATION OF ARCHITECTURAL VALUES-Globalization and the Ethics of Architecture; An Indian Vision of the World; Dialogue among Cultures; The Spirit of Location; The Ethics of Architecture; The Gameof Light; The Dialectic of Interior and Exterior; Spiritualizing Architecture; Conceptualizing Islamic Architecture; Living Architecture

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806520-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 162
• Fecha Publicación: 08/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés