A.G.K. Menon: Architecture and Modernism, Postcolonial Mediations (Part 1)

24/04/2020 25 min
A.G.K. Menon: Architecture and Modernism, Postcolonial Mediations (Part 1)

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Episode Synopsis

A G Krishna Menon is a senior architect, urban planner and conservation consultant based in Delhi. He is one of the eminent thinkers and writers in the country, and extensively written on education, practice and history. He is also the principal author of INTACH Charter of conservation.

Through the three-part podcast series, Menon introduces the listeners to the disunity of modernist ideas and local context in the form and space-making in architecture. Using the example of shopping complexes, AGK Menon, analyses the architectural failures and explores much the needed reforms in practice and education. He argues for heterogeneity in architectural response, and accentuates the braiding of the modernist ideas with the local context architecture.