The architecture of Hasmukh C. Patel
Subtitle: selected projects 1963-2003
By: Catherine Desai, Bimal Patel
Contributors: Patel, Bimal, author; Patel, Hasmukh C.
Publisher: Mapin Publishing; Grantha Corporation
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Ahmedabadi, India; Ocean Township, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781935677659
Subjects: Architecture; Public architecture; Buildings, structures
Notes: Hasmukh Patel's architectural practice spanned the transformative latter decades of the 20th century. Patel navigated the political and economic changes of his time and brought his talents to bear equally on institutional, private and speculative development projects in a way that was rare among his contemporaries. He recognised that with every commission, regardless of budget, scale or type, came opportunities to further architecture's formal, civic and social agendas. Patel rarely spoke about his approach to design. And yet, each of his projects is a built manifesto, an exploration of how architecture might enrich the lives of India's modernising citizens ... His buildings belong to a deep tradition of 20th-century modernist thinking, where the legibility of the architectural diagram is a primary concern. Included here are 51 of his buildings, many published for the first time. Each project has been meticulously redrawn from material in Patel's archive and is accompanied by photographs and text informed by his recollections from practice."--Jacket flap.

Includes bibliographical references (page 391).
Table of contents: title: The making of a master architect : Hasmukh C. Patel / Christopher Charles Benninger; title: The architecture of Hasmukh Patel / Bimal Patel; title: Selected projects; title: The turn at CEPT / Rahul Mehrotta in conversation with Catherine Desai; title: Mixed signals : a research mandate / Arindam Dutta; title: Purpose and integrity : the architectural practice of Hasmukh C. Patel / Bobby Desai; title: Biographical essay / Ismet Khambatta; title: Design collaborators.