This Exhibition Assembles: This exhibition assembles construction drawings, architects' letters and journals, and extensive photographs of this extraordinary building.
Espousing radical economy and uncompromising construction standards, it proposes environmental sensitivity as a foundation for the design process.
Completed in 1942, Golconde was the first reinforced, cast-in-place concrete building in India and clearly celebrates the modernist credo: architecture as the manifest union of aesthetics, technology, and social reform.
This exhibition assembles construction drawings, architects' letters and journals, and extensive photographs of this extraordinary building.
This exhibition draws on his archive of 40,000 negatives in the RIBA British Architectural Library Photographs Collection.
The exhibition will take place between 10 March - 22 April 2006. |