The Architectural Review, March 1st, 1995
The five-day 'Theatres of Decolonization' conference was held in Chandigarh, India. Sociologists, architects, historians and litterateurs discussed infrastructures and collectibles inherited from several countries and also pondered on the new systems of thought and control invading modern times. Star speaker Gayatri Spivak made a keynote speech on Architecture Agency Urbanism.
'M. Le Corbusier...I think of him all the time', witnessed Balkrishna Doshi from under the Open Hand at Chandigarh, 'I accepted him totally as my guru'. Doshi, himself a guru for recent Indian architecture, was in the P...
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