Inde
WARM MODERNITY / INDIAN ARCHITECTURE BUILDING DEMOCRACY - (D'ALFONSO MADDALENA)
Code EAN 13 : 9788836634354
date de parution :
21/05/2016
éditeur :
Silvana Editoriale
langues :
Anglais
format :
19 x 25 cm
nbre de pages :
224
Fruit
d'une recherche italo-indienne de cinq années, cet ouvrage montre les
conséquences de la démocratie depuis l'indépendance indienne dans le
domaine de l'urbanisme. Il entend aussi décrire la nature de la nouvelle utopie participative de l'aménagement: une approche motivée à la fois par des idées nobles devant composer avec une dure réalité; et en même temps par une idéologie paternaliste visant à enrayer le spectre de la pauvreté; ou encore par un effort personnel s'efforçant de trouver une nouvelle voie en dehors de toute oppression historique. De quoi parlons nous lorsque nous évoquons l'architecture participative? This book describes the nature of the new utopia of participatory planning and design: an appoach at times motivated by noble ideas that has had to reckon with a harsh and unforgiving reality; at others driven by ideology in a paternalistic attempt to banish the specter of poverty; or finally an effort driven by a sense of personal responsibility to find a new way out of a history oppression. A protocol drawn up long ago in 1945 by Otto Koenigsberger, adopted in
nearly one hundred instances in India and in more than half the world,
provides the framework and rules for the planning of the prototypes of
planned cities, and tells us that the so-called Participative
Architecture” aimed at intercultural inclusion, originated in the
post-colonial territories between India and Africa. The catalogue,
the fruition of a 5-year long Italian-Indian research, illustrates the
consequences of democratic choice in independent India, its factual
existence and its globalized outcomes, present even today. Presented
in the installation, are four examples of Democratic New Towns -
Jamshedpur, Bhubaneswar, Faridabad and Chandigarh- outcomes of the
interface between the experiences of Frey, Drew and Le Corbusier and the
ideas of their Indian counterparts, Varma, Doshi, Correa, Rewal. The
cities are analytically described and documented through photographs of
their present condition, preserved as the modern protected areas in
Europe.