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How India’s push to modernise threatens its signature buildings
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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).
Outrage as IIM-A to raze iconic dorms designed by Louis Kahn
The new buildings are also expected to accommodate more students in place of the existing dorms, which can accommodate 500 students, the plan is to build 800 student rooms in a new hostel complex. Updated: December 25, 2020 9:41:11 am
Designed by Louis Kahn on the old campus. (Express Photo: Nirmal Harindran)
A controversy has erupted over a decision by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, to bring down 18 student dormitories built by legendary American architect Louis Kahn on the old campus also called “heritage campus” and replace them with new buildings.
The plan to replace the buildings, built in the 1960s, with new ones are on the ground that they have suffered structural damage over the years, including in the 2001 earthquake. The new buildings are also expected to accommodate more students in place of the existing dorms, which can accommodate 500 student
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