catalogue 2015-2016 Indian Architectural Travel Guides
CHANDIGARH DELHI jaipur varanasi
ahmedabad
goa
INDIA
With these useful pocket guides, visitors will discover the cities and its architecture through practical itineraries, as well as suggestions for other places you can visit on the outskirts of the cities. Each itinerary offers practical information to enjoy the architecture and visitors will be introduced to the culture and lifestyle of the cities along with the “Facts for the visitor� chapter. All projects are presented with maps, photographs, plans, practical information about how to get around the city, and an architectonical explanation text. We’ve selected the best experts from every city, architects who have been working on these cities for a long time.
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chandigarh Chandigarh is a unique city, besides being one of the newest cities of the twentieth century that is characterized by the seal of Le Corbusier. Visiting the city you will also find the work of a large team of modernist indian architects.
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ChD VikramAditya PrakAsh
chandigarh
Chandigarh city map
8 km to Sector 17
12 km to Sector 17
The Union Territory of Chandigarh: 11 Itineraries / points of interest buildings & places to visit
State Capital of Punjab & Haryana Area: 114 km² (44 sq km) 55 Sectors Density (2011): 9,252 persons per sq km Population (2011)*: 1,054,686 (* from Draft Chandigarh Master Plan - 2031, Chandigarh Administration)
I Capitol Complex & Sukhna Lake
V Government Housing II
IX East to West
VI Panjab University
X Leisure Valley
III Museum Complex
VII PGIMER & University of Tecnology
XI North to South
IV Government Housing I
VIII V4 Geri Route
II City Center
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ITINERARY IV GOVERNMENT HOUSING I (SECTOR 22) Starting Point Hotel Aroma. Sector 22C 1. Health Centre Sector 22C Jane. B. Drew 2. Kiran Cinema Sector 22D E. Maxwell Fry 3. Shops Cum Flats 1 & 2 Sector 22D E. Maxwell Fry, Jane B. Drew 4. House Type 11-F Sector 22D E. Maxwell Fry 5. House Type 13-D Sector 22D Jane B. Drew 6. House Type 13-J Sector 22D Pierre Jeanneret 7. House Type 11-JB Sector 22D Pierre Jeanneret 8. Nursery School 2 Sector 22D Pierre Jeanneret 9. House Type 10-JB Sector 22D Pierre Jeanneret 10. House Type 9-F Sector 22A E. Maxwell Fry 11. House Type 12-JB Sector 22A Pierre Jeanneret 12. Secondary School Sector 22A Pierre Jeanneret 13. House Type 10-JD Sector 22A Pierre Jeanneret 14. House Type 13-D Sector 22A Jane B. Drew 15. House Type 10-F Sector 22A E. Maxwell Fry 16. House Type 9-FB Sector 22A E. Maxwell Fry 17. House Type 9-FC Sector 22A E. Maxwell Fry
HIMALAYA MARG
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22 B
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V4 STREET
10 SECTOR 23
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STARTING POINT
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SECTOR 21
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HOTEL AROMA
4 SHASTRI MARKET
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22 C 5
JAN MARG
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Shopping Croma - electronics megastore SCO 1094-1095 Ground & 1st Floor, Sector 22B Khadi India - emporium (www.kvic.org.in) SCO 3003-04, Sector 22D
N SECTOR 17 UDYOG PATH
Shastri Market Sector 22D DAKSHIN MARG
SECTOR 35
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1. Health Centre Jane B. Drew - 1956
2. Kiran Cinema Maxwell Fry - 1956
Sector 22 C, V4 Street
Sector 22 C, V4 Street
ground floor plan
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ground floor plan
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One of Drew’s first Chandigarh buildings, this is a curiously defined structure. Although is essentially organized around a central courtyard, the plan, for such a small building, is very significantly nuanced to adjust for programmatic particularities. Two additional small courts are introduced for daylighting, a tuberculosis wing generates a blocked off corner and a special protruding examination room, one set of Doctor’s offices have corridors
on both sides and one on only one side and the auditorium has its own semienclosed court. In a sense plan belongs more to the pre-modern sensibilities of spatial planning, than the modernist ones of underlying structural and aesthetic orders. The buildings street presence, an entrance porch in the form of a thin extended cantilevered canopy, complete with a waiting bench, is a sculpture of dignity and precision.
This is a well preserved building with an elegant street façade that seems to be derived as much from the famous artdeco facades of the Bombay early C20 cinemas as it does from modernism - an arched frame, a protruding billboard panel and a curved ticket booth connected to a thin cantilevered entrance porch. Internally too, the plan displays art-deco sensibilities – while the main auditorium is designed with great care
to create a sense of theatre to it, all the other rooms seem to be pushed into the residual area with a several odd-shaped residual spaces and strangely shaped rooms (a for instance the projection room on the second floor). The interior is however beautifully finished in polished white terrazzo and teakwood panels that are gracefully illuminated with concealed built in lighting fixtures.
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242 pages with 228 colour photographs, 22 maps and 131 plans 5 x 7.25” (126 x 184 mm) ISBN: 978-84-942342-0-0 PVP: 27€ / 35 $ / 22 £ 11 itineraries, 185 buildings and places to visit Architects index, buildings index list Chandigarh’s bibliography Facts for the visitors chapter
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2015
ahmedabad
The architecture of Ahmedabad ranges from the ancient to the very modern, from the Mughals to the last works of the contemporary Indian architects, including Le Corbusier and L. Kahn buildings.
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AMD Riyaz Tayyibji
Ahmedabad
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2015
jaipur
Jaipur is a melting pot of Rajput, Mughal and several other cultures and is also the seat of a generous amount of vernacular tradition. The visitor will also find a contemporary architecture infusing new forms with the legacy of the past and the spirit of place.
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JAI Sanjeev Vidyarthi
Jaipur
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varanasi Varanasi located on the west bank of the river Ganga, is the spiritual capital of India. The riverfront is packed with ghats and temples side by side. Behind, the old city is a maze of alleyways and streets, temples, mosques, ashrams and vegetarian shops.
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VNS Teresa Garreta
Varanasi
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Delhi Delhi is a unique and interesting city, a mixture of eight cities, each built in a different era and culture, on a different site and each ruler leaving a personal layer of architectural identity.
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DEL Stuti Sareen
Delhi
Traveling the world through architecture is a way for us to understand life as we constantly question ourselves about the cultural diversity of society. From our house, our streets, our neighborhoods; these are what make up the city and we will explore this with the Indian Architectural Travel guides Collection, to introduce the ancient, modern and contemporary heritage and architects of India.
The first titles are: Chandigarh - CHD Jaipur - JAI Delhi - DEL Ahmedabad - AMD Varanasi - VNS Old Goa - GOI
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ChD AMD VikramAditya PrakAsh
Riyaz Tayyibji
chandigarh
Ahmedabad
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VNS Teresa Garreta
Varanasi
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JAI Sanjeev Vidyarthi
Jaipur
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DEL Stuti Sareen
Delhi
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Goi ARIADNA ALVAREZ
Old goa
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