For the first time this classic is available in a richly
illustrated edition. It is a must read for India freaks and serious
architects everywhere, the Second Edition of India's only
architectural book ever to rank in the Top Ten Best Selling
Non-fiction Books, entitled Letters to a Young Architect, is now
appearing with one hundred and thirty-two colour, and black and
white, illustrations. An all inclusive Index makes it easy for
readers to locate people, places and ideas they wish to study. The
author, Christopher Charles Benninger, is respected as one of
India's leading architectural theorists and practitioners. He has
won the Great Master's Award, the Architect of the Decade Award,
the Indian Institute of Architects Award, the American Institute of
Architects/Architectural Record/Business Week Award and many more.
This book was awarded the Best Architectural Book of 2012 by
Archidesign. The Chinese translation was released in January 2013
and the Gujarati version in November 2013. The book's narrative is
a poetic and sensitive memoir of a stranger's adventures in Asia
and his transformation in India. The book debates concerns about
architectural theory, design and contemporary urban planning.
Through the medium of written discourses and talks presented over
the past decade, a lucid collection of essays emerge that testify
the commonality of mankind's condition. This is a collection of
autobiographical narratives and ideas, reflecting a journey of the
spirit from America and Europe to India, and the philosophical
considerations that matured from these experiences. His travels are
not only stories of the dusty roads he traveled on, but also of the
passions and emotions of those he met along the way. Letters to a
Young Architect reflects on the role and direction of architecture
in framing a new man and a new society in the new millennium.
Benninger notes his encounters with gurus like Kevin Lynch, Charles
and Ray Eames, Jose Luis Sert, Walter Gropius, Arnold Toynbee and
Buckminster Fuller, and the manner in which their personal passion
for humanity shaped the lives of others. Benninger is a strong
believer in tradition, in gurus and in students and in a lineage of
values, ideals, principles and of practices which have been matured
from generation to generation. He is concerned with the education
of architects; the nature of architecture itself; and the role of
urbanism and planning in the creation of a new society. The role of
Indian masters like Balkrishna Doshi, who guided him in his search,
is a touching tribute to the Indian "Guru-Shishya" tradition.
Christopher Benninger prepared the Capital Plan for Thimphu,
Bhutan; for six cities in Sri Lanka and many towns and cities
across Bhutan, India, and Sri Lanka. His well known architectural
works include the Suzlon One Earth, the United World College of
India, the Samundra Institute of Maritime Studies, the Indian
Institute of Management at Kolkata, the Centre for Development
Studies and Activities in Pune and the Kirloskar Institute of
Advanced management Studies in Pune. He founded the School of
Planning at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India after a stint
teaching at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University
where he studied architecture.
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