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082			_aARCH _bLAN
100			_aLang, Jon
245		2	_aA Concise History of Modern Architecture in India
260			_aNew Delhi _bOrient Blackswan _c2010
300			_a214 _c7.87 x 5.51 x 1.57 inches _rPaperback
504			_aThis is an invaluable book for those who want to understand the geography of their cities, as well as for students of Indian architecture. In lucid language that speaks to laymen and architects alike, Jon Lang provides a history of Indian architecture in the twentieth century. He analyses its tangled developments from the founding of the Indian Institute of Architects during the 1920s to the present diversity of architectural directions. He describes the often contradictory tugs of the international and the local as he reviews architects efforts to be up-to-date in their work. Lang examines the early influences on Indian architecture both of movements like the Bauhaus as well as prominent individuals like Habib Rehman, Jawaharlal Nehru, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. He looks at monuments, museums, resettlement colonies, housing, offices and movie halls all over India in his wide-ranging survey.
650			_a20th century architecture
650			_aArchitecture
650			_aArchitecture history
650			_aIndia
942			_cBKS
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