Word: ahmedabad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buildings that every intelligent architect must reckon with. Among the most recent are the Salk Institute at La Jolla, Calif. (1965), the lately opened Phillips Exeter Library, the Kimbell Museum and two unfinished complexes in Asia-the capitol for Dacca in Bangladesh and the Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, India...
...first principles. Kahn's use of brickwork, often stretched in warm massive curves, goes back to medieval Siena. The immense cylinders, arcs and courts at Dacca were inspired by the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. At times, Kahn's forms possess a superb and primal practicality. The Ahmedabad dormitories, for instance, with their stairs set in a thick vertical silo flanked on either side by dark openings, are both a celebration of the sun and a defense against it. Structure is to architectural history as history is to instinct. The unique power of Kahn's work...
...sacred hair of Mohammed from a mosque in Kashmir sparked three months of turmoil throughout India and East Pakistan. Two years ago, 1,000 Indians were dead and 30,000 homeless after a week of rioting that followed an incident in the modern industrial city of Ahmedabad. The provocation: a procession of Moslems had collided with a herd of sacred cows being led through the streets by a group of Indian sadhus (holy...
...Even the Syndicate, the Congress Party's conservative branch, has taken note of the fact that the idea of socialism exerts irresistible magic in Indian politics. A week before Indira's faction met in Bombay, the rival Syndicate gathered in Ahmedabad and found it expedient to shift markedly to the left in its own economic sloganizing. Syndicate leaders, however, were seriously considering talks with a couple of right-wing Indian parties to form an anti-Indira coalition. In public, some of the faction's orators savagely attacked the Prime Minister. Mrs. Tarakeshwari Sinha, for example, won heavy...