Golconde: The Introduction of Modernism in India
Golconde: The Introduction of Modernism in India
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RAYMOND NAKASHIMA. Gupta, Pankaj vir, Christine Mueller, and Cyrus Samii
Pap. New Delhi. 2010
Book ID: 84643
Sited on the coastal edge of the Bay of Bengal, Golconde, a dormitory for the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, was designed by architects Antonin Raymond and George Nakashima. Golconde is a remarkable architectural edifice, seemlessly negotiating between the tenets of early modernist architecture while addressing the pragmatic impositions of a tropical context. Espousing radical economy and uncompromising construction standards, it proposes environmental sensitivity as a foundation for the design process. Completed in 1942, Golconde was the first reinforced, cast-in-place concrete building in India and celebrates the modernist credo: architecture as the manifest union of aesthetics, technology, and social reform.
100 pp., color, b&w images.
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