Talking Architecture

Innovation and Tradition: The Architecture of Raj Rewal p.vii, Part I-From Hoshiarpur to Paris p.1, A Temple Within Self Gandhi and the Partition • Discovering Architecture • Discovering Europe • Exploring Theatre • An Unusual Marriage • The Challenge of Le Corbusier p.2-16, 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? p.17- 42, Part III: Rasa in Architecture: The Concept of Rasa • Civilized Art And Primitive Art • Celebrating Diversity • Does An Asian Architecture Exist? p.43-60, 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 Game of Light • The Dialectic of Interior and Exterior • Spiritualizing Architecture • Conceptualizing Islamic Architecture • Living Architecture p.61 - 144

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