Building and Unbuilding the City Museum

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Building and Unbuilding the City Museum

From Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad

Chi, Lily; Anklesaria, Sarosh

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2026

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9781032973586

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0. Introduction A Walk through Sanskar Kendra (Sarosh Anklesaria) The Terms of Debate (Lily Chi) Dormant City Museum: A Photo Essay (Randhir Singh) Part One: Situating Sanskar Kendra: Histories and Context 1. Negotiating the Local and the Universal, the Client and the Architect at Sanskar Kendra (Daniel Williamson) 2. Reading the Museum as Infrastructure: From the Mundaneum to Sanskar Kendra (Sarosh Anklesaria) 3. Similarities and Differences of Le Corbusier's Museums at Ahmedabad, Tokyo, and Chandigarh (Maria Cecilia O'Byrne) 4. "Exposing" Concrete: The Constructional Legacies of the City Museum (Gauri Bharat and Mallika Nyshadham) Part Two: Critiques and Redirections 5. Ahmedabad: The Middle-Class Megacity (Mona Mehta) 6. Sanskar Kendra: Re-membering the Cultural Centre (Shubhra Raje and Riyaz Tayyibji) 7. Reflections on the Making of the Bihar Museum and the Conflictorium (Batul Raaj Mehta and Avni Sethi) 8. Sanskar Kendra Today: Is my Modernism Your Millstone? (A Conversation with Mrinalini Rajagopalan) Part Three: Learning from Sanskar Kendra 9. Disarticulating Architecture (Lily Chi) 10. Refractions on Sanskar Kendra (Lily Chi and Sarosh Anklesaria) 11. B.V Doshi on the Responsibilities of the Architect (A Conversation with Students).
Sanskar Kala Kendra;Ahmedabad;City Museum;Le Corbusier;Citizens' Cultural Centre;post-colonial;modern architecture;urban heritage;cultural heritage;Museum;conservation;agency;nation building;urban sociology;neoliberal development;design;spatial agency;india