On Saturday, June 13, you are welcome to attend the lecture by Vikram Prakash. He will talk about his father’s architecture in Chandigarh.

Born in colonial India, Aditya Prakash (1924-2008) – architect, painter, writer -joined the Chandigarh project in 1952 in response to Nehru’s call to build a new independent nation. He belonged to the first generation of modernists who sought to describe the entire cosmos of modern life for his country via art, architecture, design, planning, and theatre. Aditya was one of the Indian architects who collaborated with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret to turn Chandigarh – the famous modernist new capital for the state of East Punjab (India) – into a reality.

Based on the concept of Non-Aligned Modernism, Vikram Prakash’s lecture will discuss the work of mid-century modernists. Such as his father. With this he uncites to advance global modernist thinking beyond binaries like East–West, local–global, and regional–universal.

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