Talking Architecture: Raj Rewal in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo

by Ramin Jahanbegloo

Overview

Talking Architecture (Revised Edition) is one of the latest additions in the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's interviews of prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought. Focusing on the life, work, and ideas of Raj Rewal, one of India's leading contemporary architects, the dialogue flows effortlessly from Rewal's descriptions of his early life and experiences in Europe to discussions encompassing the aesthetic foundations of Indian architecture as well as the role of architecture in the twenty-first century. This revised edition includes an extended conversation between Rewal and Jahanbegloo and also about 40 additional visuals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199494729
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/28/2019
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	9.58(w) x 7.31(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher, currently vice-dean and director at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.

Table of Contents

Innovation and Tradition: The Architecture of Raj Rewal PART I: FROM HOSHIARPUR TO PARIS A Temple within SelfGandhi and the PartitionDiscovering ArchitectureDiscovering EuropeExploring TheatreAn Unusual MarriageThe Challenge of Le CorbusierPART II: THINKING ARCHITECTURE The Perennial and the EphemeralWhat is Secular Architecture? City of DreamsA Senseless UglinessThinking Cities TodayThe Input of HeritageBuilders or Architects?PART III: RASA IN ARCHITECTURE The Concept of RasaCivilized Art and Primitive ArtCelebrating DiversityBL Does an Asian Architecture Exist?PART IV: CLASH OR ASSIMILATION OF ARCHITECTURAL VALUES Globalization and the Ethics of ArchitectureAn Indian Vision of the WorldDialogue among CulturesThe Spirit of LocationThe Ethics of ArchitectureThe Game of LightThe Dialectic of Interior and ExteriorSpiritualizingArchitectureConceptualizing Islamic ArchitectureLiving ArchitecturePART V: ICONIC FORMS AND SYMBOLSCredits