MAHENDRA RAJ - ENGINEERING AND DESIGNING MODERN INDIA
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Acm & ENAC Projeter Ensemble présentent à Archizoom:
MAHENDRA RAJ IN CONVERSATION WITH AURELIO MUTONI, ERIC LAPIERRE AND ARIEL HUBER.
Introduction by Vandini Mehta and Rohit Raj Mehndiratta.
Jeudi 6 octobre 2016 - 18:30
Project Room, bâtiment SG, EPFL
Mahendra Raj translated highly progressive and experimental structural systems into the Indian reality – in absence of the modern techniques and machinery available in the West at the time. His impressive oeuvre were calculated for a good part without the help of computers, and realised with simplest technical means and impressive manual skills.
In collaboration with some of the finest architects active in India at the time – Charles Correa, Balkrishna Doshi, Raj Rewal, Joseph Allen Stein and Louis Kahn to name a few – Mahendra Raj was able to realise an impressive oeuvre of spectacular structures, which helped define the architectural language of Nehru’s Modern India.
This lecture-debate on the creative collaboration between engineers and architects is a contribution to the ENAC programme 'Projeter Ensemble' aiming to train the future generation of engineers and architects to work together on the development of our built environment.
