Review: Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture and Identity and One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash

Book Review| June 01 2022 Review: Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture and Identity and One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash Vera Simone Bader, ed. Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture and Identity Berlin: ArchiTangle, 2019, 224 pp., 64 b/w illus. $39/€24 (cloth), ISBN 9783966800013Vikramaditya Prakash One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash Ahmedabad: Mapin, 2021, 292 pp., 337 color and 59 b/w illus. $65 (cloth), ISBN 9788189995683 Peter Scriver, Peter Scriver University of Adelaide Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Amit Srivastava Amit Srivastava University of Adelaide Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2022) 81 (2): 250–252. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.2.250 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Peter Scriver, Amit Srivastava; Review: Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture and Identity and One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2022; 81 (2): 250–252. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.2.250 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In the growing discourse on the architectural history of modern India, if not the global South more broadly, an evolving pattern of inquiry and associated publications has become increasingly discernible. It was almost four decades ago that the earliest monographic treatments of contemporary Indian architects, including Charles Correa, Raj Rewal, and Balkrishna Doshi, began to appear in glossy volumes published or distributed internationally. Products in part of the liberalizing economic turn of that moment and broader associated strategies of cultural commodification, these monographs began to articulate distinct identity claims for contemporary “Indian” architecture that would simultaneously align it with and distinguish it from the masterworks of celebrated international modernists in the Indian subcontinent. Up to that point, the new architecture of the region had been documented almost exclusively through the lens of the latter, in near context-free ignorance of local professional developments. Efforts to extend and interpret the identity claims... You do not currently have access to this content.