Benninger, Christopher  <br/><br/>
Letters to a young architect  

 -  India House  2011 
 - 302  ‎ 19.05 x 1.85 x 23.5 cm 
<br/><br/>Born an American, celebrated in India as a leading architect and urbanist, Benninger possesses a sense of timelessness that spreads across oceans and over mountains. Letters to a Young Architect is a sensitive memoir of his life in India and his personal concerns about architectural theory and contemporary urban issues. The book represents a mature reflection of lessons learned along an ardous journey. Through the medium of articles and lectures presented over the past decade, a lucid collection of essays emerges to testify to the commonality of the human condition. The book documents a fifty-year passage, beginning in America in the 1960s, studying under the great master Jose Luis Sert, and continuing in the Indian subcontinent through a critical period of Indias ascendance. This is a collection of autobiographical narratives and ideas reflecting a mans journey of the spirit from America to India and the philosophical considerations that matured from his experiences. Letters to a Young Architect reflects on the role and the direction of architecture in framing a new man and a new society in the new millennium. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788192156804 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture<br/>Biography<br/>Land use planning<br/>Memoir<br/>Urban planning
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>ARCH  / BEN