Ateya Khorakiwala : architecture and scarcity in the early years of Independent India.

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Main entry:

Khorakiwala, Ateya speaker.

Title & Author:

Ateya Khorakiwala : architecture and scarcity in the early years of Independent India.

Publication:

[Montréal] : CCA, [2014]

Description:

1 streaming video file (1 hr., 9 min., 29 sec.) : sound, colour

Notes:
Supplied title.
Lecture.
Recorded and produced by the Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Speaker: Ateya Khorakiwala. Additional speaker during question period: Maristella Casciato.
Presentation in English.

Summary:

Ateya Khorakiwala discusses the political imagination and the food crises that drove decisions to build cities, manage rivers, and invest in infrastructure during the early years of India's independence. The aim was to sustain the lives of the state's subjects while transforming them into model citizens; however the path to modernity was never so straightforward.

Subject:

Architecture India 20th century.
Architecture Inde 20e siècle.
Architecture.
India.

Form/genre:

Lectures.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Streaming video.

Added entries:

Casciato, Maristella speaker.
Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body, organizer, host institution.
Centre canadien d'architecture. Enregistrements des événements.
Centre canadien d'architecture. CCAchannel.

Architecture and scarcity in the early years of Independent India
Title from presentation slide: Modernizing amid scarcity : architecture in the early years of Independent India

Holdings:

Location: Library internet resource 306953
Call No.: 306953
Status: Available

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