Golconde: The Introduction of Modernism in India

This monograph brings critical focus to bear on a little-known building in Pondicherry, India, designed by Antonin Raymond and George Nakashima in 1935, and constructed between 1936 and 1942. More than simply of historical import, Golconde serves to encapsulate something of Nakashima's professional career in particular; drawing on the strengths of his work in furniture that followed, but here exposed in architecture. As the many photographs, drawings and notes clearly demonstrate, the accomplishment evident in the biulding is in itself worthy of broader explosure. However more importantly, Golconde invites consideration within a broad critical frame that extends beyond the local achievements of the building itself.