Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
15 May 2003 to 14 September 2003
Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation
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Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
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
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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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
7 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Farhan Karim
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
1st December 2022
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Manu P. Sobti, Chandigarh, Pierre Jeanneret, landscape, photography, 1st december 2022
1 December 2022, 6pm
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Manu P. Sobti, Chandigarh, Pierre Jeanneret, landscape, photography, 1st december 2022
PH1988:0314
December 1854
PH1982:0287:001-003
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Photographs PH1982:0287:001 - PH1982:0287:003 comprise a set of three unmounted, uninscribed albumen prints.
architecture
1857
Panorama of the Moti Masjid [Pearl Mosque], Agra Fort, Agra, India
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PH1982:0287:001-003
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Photographs PH1982:0287:001 - PH1982:0287:003 comprise a set of three unmounted, uninscribed albumen prints.
architecture
PH1999:0003:001-021
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- Photographic panorama mounted on paper with letterpress title labels, backed with linen, bound with cloth, with photographer's credit, title and date on letterpress label. The inscriptions photographed are from the base of the four faces of the Brihadishvara, the main temple of the Great Pagoda.
architecture
March-April 1857
Panorama showing the inscription around the four faces of the Brihadishvara of the Great Pagoda Temple at Tanjore, India
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PH1999:0003:001-021
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- Photographic panorama mounted on paper with letterpress title labels, backed with linen, bound with cloth, with photographer's credit, title and date on letterpress label. The inscriptions photographed are from the base of the four faces of the Brihadishvara, the main temple of the Great Pagoda.
architecture
PH1999:0176
architecture
1857
Partial view of the Moti Masjid [Pearl Mosque] showing part of the façade and the portal, Agra, India
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PH1999:0176
architecture
PH1999:0177
architecture
1857
Partial view of the Moti Masjid [Pearl Mosque] showing part of the façade and the portal, Agra, India
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PH1999:0177
architecture