How India’s push to modernise threatens its signature buildings
This story is from January 3, 2021
How India’s push to modernise threatens its signature buildings
The IIM Ahmedabad complex designed by Kahn
You say to brick, “What do you want, brick?” Brick says to you, “I like an arch.” If you say to brick, “Arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel over an opening. What do you think of that, brick?” Brick says: “I like an arch.” Louis Kahn
This odd imaginary conversation with a brick was often used by American architect Louis Kahn to explain to students how they must use material around them to find inspiration. So the irony was not lost on anyone when Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) director Errol D’Souza proposed the destruction of the Kahn-designed campus by describing the bricks as “second class” and having an “inbuilt efflorescence” (salt deposit on masonry).
“We are ready for an open debate. It is good to see the ministers in Uttar Pradesh uttering words like education, health, electricity and water for the first time. It feels good that for the first time in the last 70 years, these issues are being discussed in UP politics,” said Sisodia.
After a while, Sisodia and AAP Rajya Sabha member and party’s UP in-charge Sanjay Singh addressed a press conference where they hit out at the Adityanath government.
“In the last five years, since the BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh, the people of the state are asking what they got. In Delhi, where people chose Kejriwal five years ago, the government schools became better, but here the situation is terrible. In Delhi, students of government schools are outperforming. In Delhi, private schools have been not been allowed to increase their fees. Here in UP, the fees in private schools have increased manifold. In Delhi, 80 per cent people are getting free electricity,” Sisodia said as he pl
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Sure he will come forward : Sisodia dares UP minister to debate on education models
Sisodia who reached the state capital along with Aam Aadmi Party s Uttar Pradesh in-charge and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh flung the challenge at the UP minister with a touch of drama.
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LUCKNOW: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday dared Uttar Pradesh Minister Sidharth Nath Singh to join him in a debate on the state of education in India s most populous state vis-à-vis that in the national capital.
Sisodia who reached the state capital along with Aam Aadmi Party s Uttar Pradesh in-charge and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh flung the challenge at the UP minister with a touch of drama.