Warm modernity
Subtitle: Indian architecture building democracy
By: Maddalena D'Alfonso ; contributors: Paolo Brescia [and 3 others]
Contributors: Brescia, Paolo, contributor; Museo diocesano (Milan, Italy); Triennale di Milano (21st : 2016 : Milan, Italy)
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9788836634354
Subjects: City planning; Democracy and architecture; Architecture; History
Notes: Volume issued on the occasion of exhibition within the XXI Triennale di Milano, at the Museo diocesano, April 12 September 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Storytelling / Maddalena d'Alfonso ; Tropical costants : maps / Anna Nurra; title: Importing modernity. Architects of interest : timelines ; The Indian paradigm : the definition of the modern tropical landscape / Maddalena d'Alfonso ; Establishing an architectural identity in an age of globalization / Paolo Brescia ; Urban tropical landscape : photographs / Marco Introini; title: Modernity as a tool. Interpretative filters ; An industrial city : Jamshedpur / Maddalena d'Alfonso ; Modern times / Anna Nurra ; Dialogue with Balkrishna V. Doshi ; A capital city : Bhubaneswar / Maddalena d'Alfonso ; Urban mandala / Elisa Fiscon ; Dialogue with A.G. Krishna Menon ; A town for refugees : Faridabad / Maddalena d'Alfonso ; Players and playgrounds / Maddalena d'Alfonso; title: Exporting modernity. Redrawing Chandigarh : photographs by Marco Introini ; What are we talking about when we speak about participatory architecture? / Maddalena d'Alfonso ; A further dialogue : maps ; Tools of participation : the role of design manuals in colonial and postcolonial history / Jacopo Galli ; Indigenous technologies and self-construction / Ingrid Paoletti ; Architects in the tropics : maps + timelines ; Dialogue with Rahul Mehrotra.