Architecture of Modern India - Christopher Benninger

Book – Architecture for Modern India – Christopher Benninger

Architecture of Modern India - Christopher Benninger

Architecture of Modern India - Christopher Benninger

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This large format monograph traces architectural practice, through Benninger’s work, over the past five decades of economic transformation and social change. Benninger’s experience begins in the socialist, closed economic era, when India was a rural society. It blends into the present free market, urban society of the world’s largest global economy. Each of Benninger’s creations, whether in urban planning or architecture is a benchmark of India’s evolving character and persona.

Christopher Benninger: Architecture for Modern India
Edited by Rosa Maria Falvo and Ramprasad Akkisetti
Trim Size: 9-3/4 x 11-5/8
Hardcover: 384 pages
ISBN: 978-88-572-2687-3

Distributed in USA, Canada,Central & South America by
Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, USA.
Distributed elsewhere in the world by
Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, United Kingdom


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