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The architecture of Hasmukh C Patel : selected projects 1963-2003 / Catherine Desai, Bomal Patel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ocean, NJ : Grantha Corporation, 2017Edition: 1st editionDescription: 394 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781935677659 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23  720.95475 DES 023417
Contents:
The making of a master architect : Hasmukh C. Patel / Christopher Charles Benninger -- The architecture of Hasmukh Patel / Bimal Patel -- Selected projects -- The turn at CEPT / Rahul Mehrotta in conversation with Catherine Desai -- Mixed signals : a research mandate / Arindam Dutta -- Purpose and integrity : the architectural practice of Hasmukh C. Patel / Bobby Desai -- Biographical essay / Ismet Khambatta -- Design collaborators.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 391).

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

"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.

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