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Letters To A Young Architect

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by Christopher Benninger


  Ashram 51,52,54,55,57,58

  Ashtadhyayi [Panini] 277

  Asian Development Bank 56,210

  Assemblages 118,280

  A Testament [Wright, Frank Lloyd] 43

  Athens Charter [CIAM] 204

  Athens, Greece 44,204,291

  Avatar 259,263,304

  Ayer, Freddie 52

  Azim Premji Foundation 128

  B

  Bacon, Edmond 51

  Bajaj, Rajiv 58,126

  Baker House, Cambridge, Massachusetts 49

  Baker, Laurie 49,54,253

  Baldevji 54

  Bank of China 145

  Bannister, Turpin C. 14,49

  Baroque 120,134

  Barthes, Roland 281,290

  Basaldella, Mirko 14,52

  CCTV Tower, China 165

  Central Place Theory 189

  Centre for Development Studies and Activities [CDSA] 48,56,94,105,190,222

  Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology [CEPT] 185

  Ceremonial Plaza, Bhutan 58

  Cervantes 137,142

  Chandigarh 13,49,52,83,126,171,174,177,320

  Charles River, Cambridge, Massachusetts 51

  Charter of the New Urbanism [Congress for the New Urbanism] 207

  Chauhan, Muktiraj 269

  Chennai, Tamil Nadu 13,42,53,56,81,211,232

  Chicago School 100,133,138,163,165,174,176

  Child, Julia 50

  Chocolate [Vanita, Ruth Mona] 301

  Choksi, Daraius 15

  Chorten 154,307

  Church Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 51,

  CIAM 26,138,147,162,171,175,204

  City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia 165

  Civilization 44,47,73,74,100,137,175,210,277,283,287,293,294,307

  Cladding 168,170

  Collage 280,281,283,288,289

  College of Engineering, Pune 58,102

  Combines 280

  Community Development Programmes 219

  Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture [Venturi, Robert] 290

  Conviviality 25,82,141,154,243,247,294,297

  Cooper, Thomas 52

  Correa, Charles 14,46,54,171,253

  Creager, Bruce 52

  Credo 39,42,43,122,123,242

  Bateson, Gregory 156

  Bauhaus, Germany 26,99,138,173,175

  Bawa, Geoffrey 253

  Beautiful Velvet Box 11,167

  Behrens, Peter 172

  Berkeley, California 44

  Berlage, Hendrik 171,174

  Bharat 209

  Bhathena, Adi 64

  Bhavnagar, Gujarat 53,105

  Bhutan 56,58,62,85,126,144,181,234,235,236,237,247,248,296,301,305

  Biblio [journal] 291,300

  Bilbao, Guggenheim 165

  Bird’s Nest 161

  Blake, Peter 145

  Bohr, Kenneth 53

  Boston, Massachusetts 44,290,302

  Bourgeois, Victor 173

  Brahmachari 48,49,51,307

  Braque, Georges 280

  Breuer, Marcel 171

  Broad Acre City [Wright, Frank Lloyd] 203

  Brown, Denise Scott 147

  Buddha 115

  Buddhism 247

  Buddhist 62,289,296,307,308

  Busti Improvement Programme, Kolkata 211

  Butler, Christopher 164,282,290

  C

  Cambridge, Massachusetts 17,48,50,51,52,55,289,290,291

  Candilis-Josic-Woods 146

  Cantonment model 288

  Carpenter Center, Harvard University 49,289

  Cartier-Bresson 45

  Crystal Palace 138,139

  Cummings, E. E. 50

  D

  Dattatreya 15

  Deconstruction 162

  Delirious New York 145

  Delos Symposium 51

  Derrida, Jacques 140,164

  Desai, Miki 269

  Descartes 136,137,142

  Deutscher Werkbund 26

  Development Control Regulations 212

  Dewey Decimal System 284

  Dhun House 267

  Dickens, Charles 172

  Dilli haat, New Delhi 102,307

  Disney, Walt 106,118,148,149,152,205,8,301

  Don Quixote [Cervantes] 137

  Doshi, Balkrishna V. 10,15,22,43,46,52,54,171,185,253,264

  Doshi, Girish 84

  Doxiadis, Constantinos 14,45

  Drew, Jane 14,45,52

  Duchamp 164

  Dulles International Airport 49

  E

  Eagles, The 280

  Eames, Charles 14,45,49,175

  Eames, Ray 14,45,49,175

  Earth Charter 229

  École des Beaux-Arts 133,140,167

  Economically Weaker Section (EWS) 231

  Effete 11,133,176,282

  Effetism 100,138,140,163,165,174,176,254

  Eiffel Tower 29,139

  Einstein, Albert 76

  Ekistics [journal] 183,291

  Emblematic 144,277

  Empirical 21,23,136,137,226,278,285

  Employment Guarantee Scheme 162

  English Channel 44

  Erzurum, Turkey 44

  Ethical 253

  European Biennale 62,157

  Eyck, Aldo van 146,162

  F

  Falling water 83

  Femina [magazine] 300

  Five Year Plans 209,219

  Ford Foundation 54

  Ford Foundation Building, New York 49

  Formative 48,145,284,287

  Foucault, Michel 290

  Free University 146

  French Academy 139

  Friedman, Yona 14,45

  Fry, Maxwell 14,45,52

  Fulbright Fellowship 17,53

  Fuller, Buckminster 14,45,51,171

  Functional Linkage Matrix 189

  G

  Gainesville Florida 206

  Galbraith, John Kenneth 14,51

  Galileo 136,283

  Galleries des Machines 139

  Gandhi, Mohandas 26

  Gans, Herbert 14,51

  Garden Cities Movement 203,8,234

  Garden City 287

  Gehry, Frank 164

  General Motors 147

  Generation X 287

  Gharana 13,18,26,43,48,52,86,308

  Global Shelter Strategy 229

  Gloucester Place, London 52

  God’s Own Junkyard [Blake, Peter] 145

  Graham Foundation 17

  Grameen Bank 222

  Granada, Spain 101,141

  Great Man Theory 146,176,257

  Greece 44,45,51

  Gropius, Walter 14,18,50,51,52,99,171,173,289, 305

  Gross National Happiness 247

  Grove Hall, Gainesville, Florida 49,50

  Guggenheim Museum, New York 49

  Gujarat 214,232,232,237,267,268

  Gujarat Housing Board 56

  Gurus 13,14,22,25,43,48,52,54,58,99,241

  H

  Harvard Science Center 51

  Harvard University 289

  Heterosexual Construct 286

  Herat, Afghanistan 44

  Hieroglyphics 276

  Hilton, Paris 161

  Himalayas 153,157,302,304

  Hotel California [song] 280

  Housing and Urban Development Corporati
on 56,209,216,231,232

  Howard, Ebenezer 204

  HUDCO 209,211,231,232

  Hungarian 51

  Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 8,55,223,232,233

  Hyderabad Urban Development Authority 55,232

  Hypothesis 87

  I

  Ideal City [Leonardo da Vinci] 143

  Image of the City [Lynch, Kevin] 150,281,290

  Imagineering 11,142,145,146,148,156,291

  Imperial Hotel, Tokyo 41

  INDIA HOUSE 321

  Indian Institute of Management 58,126,248,263

  Input-Output 189

  International Exhibition, Chicago 133,163,176

  Irving Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 50

  J

  Jaali 169

  Jain, Kulbhushan 269

  Jain, Prem Chand 44

  Jambudweepa 107

  Jameson, Frederic 164

  James, William 50

  Jamnagar, Gujarat 53,231,232,233

  Jensen, Norman 14,49,50

  Johnson, Philip 45,49

  Joshi, Madhav 15,84

  K

  Kabul, Afghanistan 44

  Kahn, Louis 14,17,18,46,56,107,126,157,257,258,259,263,268,269

  Kakuzo, Okakura 41

  Kallmann, Gerhard 14,52

  Kamuben 263,267

  Kanade, Navnath 84,268

  Kanade, Shankar 84,268

  Kandahar, Afghanistan 44

  Kanvinde, Achyut 15,22,46,54,171,253

  Khadpekar, Vivek 15,270

  Khakkar, Bupen 300

  Khyber Pass, Afghanistan 45

  Kirloskar Family 126

  Kiszonak, Louis 52

  Koenigsberger, Otto 15,45

  Kolkata, West Bengal 13,53,54,58,81,85,94,102,105,126,197,2,211,255

  Kolonaki Square, Athens, Greece 51

  Koolhaas, Rem 145,148

  Krishnayya, Jaswant 54

  Kundera, Milan 142,156,255,290,291,299,301

  kund-like 105–111,105

  Kundu, Amitabh 223

  L

  La Cité Industrielle [Garnier, Tony] 173

  La Cité Moderne [Bourgeois, Victor] 173

  La Città Nuova [Sant'Elia, Antonio] 173

  Lakhangs 154

  Land Tenure 211,227,232

  La Tourette, France 49

  Learning from Las Vegas [Venturi, Robert, et. al.] 151

  Le Corbusier 11,17,18,49,50,51,56,83,107,126,144,162,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,204,8,257,258,263,268

  Lefaivre, Liane 14,42

  Leonardo da Vinci 142,143

  Le Plan Voisin [Le Corbusier] 173

  Lever House 49

  Levittowns 148,152

  Liberal Humanism 162

  License Raj 216

  Lima, Peru 195

  Linnaeus, Carl 284

  London, United Kingdom 44,45,52,81,168,172,244,246,263,291,302

  Loos, Adolf 172

  Los Angeles 44,45

  Love at the Time of Cholera [Marquez, Gabriel Garcia] 299

  Low Cost Housing 53,55,269

  Lutyens, Edwin 203

  Lynch, Kevin 14,51,150,154,254,281,290

  Lyonchen Jigme Thinley 22,296

  M

  Mackintosh, Charles Rennie 26,173

  Madras Metropolitan Urban Development Authority 232

  Mahadwara 107,108

  Maharashtra 64,84,214,216

  Mahindra, Anand 126

  Mahindra, Harish 57,126,238

  Mahindra United World College of India 10,57,75,77,105,111,126

  Maki, Fumihiko 14,18,45,52,254

  Mandala 107,155

  Mangaldas, Kamal 46

  Mangin, William 198

  mani 154

  Maratha 285

  Marin County Civic Center, California 49,

  Marxist 164

  Marx, Karl 172,245,290

  Mashhad, Iran 44

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] 49,50,51,57,242,289,290,291

  McNulty, Thomas 49

  Mead, Margaret 14,51,291

  Mehta, Anuradhaben 46

  Mehta, Sanat 46,232

  Memories of my Melancholy Whores [Marquez, Gabriel Garcia] 299

  Merritt, Harry 14

  Metabolist Group 175

  Metropolitan Regional Plan 212

  Michelangelo 142

  Mickey Mouse 148

  Minimum Needs Programme, India 88

  Mistry, Keshuvbhai 269

  Models of Habitat Mobility 199

  Modern 23,26,50,51,52,55,57,98,100,107,116,118,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,161,163,165,167,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,189,204,8,225,246,254,255,269,281

  Modern Architecture Research Society [MARS] 175

  Modern Project 134

  Mojave Desert, California 44

  Montage 281

  Montgomery, Roger 14,52

  Montreal, Quebec 44

  Morse Code 285

  Mount Abu, Rajasthan 21

  Moussavi, Farshid 167

  Mumbai, India 31,44,58,69,211,214,215,216,217,220,233,263,302,307,308

  Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority [MMRDA] 233

  N

  Nairobi, Kenya 56,269

  National Capitol Complex 296

  National Housing Bank, India 56,209,216

  National Institute of Design, India 99,175

  National Organization of Students of Planning [NOSPLAN] 191

  Nemo 165

  Neotia, Harsh 102

  Neutra, Richard 44

  Nervi, Pier Luigi 171

  New Canaan, Connecticut 45

  New Delhi 54,102,105,203,8,208,239,289,291

  New Imperialism 284,285

  New Man 172,173,175,176

  New Society 172,177

  New Urbanism 147,148,149,151

  New York 49,79,84,145,148,155,168,244,246,289,290,291

  Niemeyer, Oscar 18,49

  Nip the Bud; Shoot the Kids [Oe, Kenzaburo] 299

  Norton, Elliot 50

  O

  Ocean Empires 284

  Oe, Kenzaburo 277,289,299,300

  Ong Giao Ki 40

  Order 276,278,279,286,290

  Ordering 288

  Ordering Project 275,276,276,278,278,281,281,283,283,284,284,285,285,287,287,288,288

  Oswal, Dr. Gunvant 83,113,114,115

  Otta 82

  Oxford Mississippi 152

  P

  Pandya, Kiran 269

  Panini 277

  Parekh, Dr. Bhanuben 53,105

  Paris, France 44,45,280,280

  Patel, C. Hasmukh 15,22,46,54

  Patil, Sanjay 84

  Pattern 105

  Paxton, Joseph 138,139

  Penjor, Dasho Lam 15,22

  Periodic Table of Elements 284

  Perkins Hall, Harvard University 50

  Perlman, Janice 223

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 17,46,25

  Picasso, Pablo 258,280

  Pictography 276

  Planning Commission, Government of India 56

  Pluraform 301

  Postmodern 11,128,133,134,140,141,143,165

  Poverty 18,51,56,59,73,152,185,187,191,219,223,226,227,229

  Prague 163

  Principles of Intelligent Urbanism [PIU] 11,144,181,207,8,234,235,247,321

  Problematique 296

  Prototypes 86,97,241,278,286


  Psomopoulos, Panayis 14,51

  Pune, Maharashtra 5,8,48,56,58,61,64,79,81,84,94,102,105,113,212,217,236,237,244,263,285,290,291,303,320,321

  Pyatok, Michael 52

  Q

  Queer Words [Benninger, Christopher C.] 300

  R

  Rahman, Habib 46

  Raje, Anant 11,14,22,46,54,257,258,259,260,269

  Rand, Ayn 204,8,205

  Rao, Raj R. 300

  Rauschenberg, Robert 280,290

  Reeves, Blaire 14,49,50

  Replicability 221

  Richardson, H. H. 167

  Rishi 48,57,308

  Rockefeller Center 145

  Rohe, Mies Van der 49,171,172,174

  Ronchamp, France 49

  Rotis 45

  Row, Arthur 15

  Royal Government of Bhutan 126

  Rudofsky, Bernard 287,290,291

  Rudolph, Paul 49

  Ruskin, John 26,173

  S

  Sagara, Piraji 14,22

  Sahyadri Mountains 74,105

  Salvadori, Vieri 270

  Samsara [Benninger, Christopher C., unpublished] 300

  Samskara 279

  Samundra Institute of Maritime Studies [SIMS] 58,126

  San Simeon, California 44

  Sant’Elia, Antonio 173

  Sarabhai, Mrinaliniben 46

  Sarabhai, Vikram 14,22,46,126

  Sathe, Rahul 15

  Schnebli, Dolf 14,18,44,45,52

  School of Architecture, Ahmedabad 17,49,171,185,263

  School of Planning, Ahmedabad 27,53,54,55,57,185,188,190,194,232,238

  Semantic Analysis 162

  Sert, Jose Lluis 14,17,18,50,51,52,107,144,162,171,254,305

  Seth, Vikram 300

  Shah, R. I. 222

  Shastras 203

  Shishya 18

  Signifiers 280,281,282,287

  Sivaramakrishnan, K. C. 54

  Sixteen Emptinesses 62

  Slowness [Kundera, Milan] 156

  Slum Improvement Scheme 211

  Smart Growth 147

  Social Net 24,190,227,228

  Socrates 50,283

  Socratic Method 31

  Soleri, Paolo 14,45,49

  Soltan, Jerzy 14,51,253

  SOS Children’s Village 53

  Spanish Steps, Rome 108

  Sparoza, Attica, Greece 51

  Special Area Development Programmes 219

  Special Economic Zones [SEZ] 237

  Special Habitat Zones 237

 

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