On the occasion of the opening of How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh the two featured photographers Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma join a conversation with the exhibition curators. They discuss how inhabitants take ownership of the city and urban life in Casablanca and Chandigarh.
27 November 2013
In conversation: Yto Barrada & Takashi Homma
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On the occasion of the opening of How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh the two featured photographers Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma join a conversation with the exhibition curators. They discuss how inhabitants take ownership of the city and urban life in Casablanca and Chandigarh.
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Casablanca/Chandigarh," 2013-2014.
March 2013
In the outskirts of Chandigarh, India
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Casablanca/Chandigarh," 2013-2014.
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Casablanca/Chandigarh," 2013-2014.
March 2013
In the outskirts of Chandigarh, India
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Casablanca/Chandigarh," 2013-2014.
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Casablanca/Chandigarh," 2013-2014.
March 2013
Covered stall, Sector 22, Chandigarh, India
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Casablanca/Chandigarh," 2013-2014.
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Casablanca/Chandigarh," 2013-2014.
March 2013
Street market with shop-cum-flats in the background, Sector 22, Chandigarh, India
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Casablanca/Chandigarh," 2013-2014.