Tropical Modernism: The Chandigarh Experiment and Post-Colonial India
Global Design Forum
20 Sept 14:00 – 14:50
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre
London
SW7 2RL
Hear Vikramaditya Prakash in conversation with Christopher Turner, curator of Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence.
Chandigarh was the first modernist city to be built from scratch and was intended as a symbol of Nehru’s new India. Prakash, whose father was one of the Indian architects working on the scheme, will discuss the importance and ambiguities of modernism to the post-colonial project.
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