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Meanwhile, architectural exploration within the modernist realm continued in different parts of the country. The Matri-mandir in Auroville designed by Roger Anger displayed a spiritual ideology, as do a number of other buildings there.
Laurie Baker's work in Kerala is low cost, self-help, culturally and climatically responsive as can be seen in his center for developmental studies. Satish Gujral's Belgian embassy building in New Delhi is sculptural with ...
More than five hundred years have passed since the first encounter between Indians and Non-Indians took place with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in what quickly became known as the New World. Throughout those five hundred years disease, pestilence, war, atrocities, greed, discrimination, relocation-intolerance, and misunderstanding have characterised many of the actions and attitudes of Non-Indians to the peoples they found inhabiting this vast hemisphere. ...