Talking Architecture Raj Rewal in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo

Talking Architecture (Revised Edition) is one of the latest additions in the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's interviews of prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought. Focusing on the life, work, and ideas of Raj Rewal, one of India's leading contemporary architects, the dialogue flows effortlessly from Rewal's descriptions of his early life and experiences in Europe to discussions encompassing the aesthetic foundations of Indian architecture as well as the role of architecture in the twenty-first century. This revised edition includes an extended conversation between Rewal and Jahanbegloo and also about 40 additional visuals.

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher, currently vice-dean and director at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.

Innovation and Tradition: The Architecture of Raj Rewal
PART I: FROM HOSHIARPUR TO PARIS
A Temple within Self
Gandhi and the Partition
Discovering Architecture
Discovering Europe
Exploring Theatre
An Unusual Marriage
The Challenge of Le Corbusier
PART II: THINKING ARCHITECTURE
The Perennial and the Ephemeral
What is Secular Architecture?
City of Dreams
A Senseless Ugliness
Thinking Cities Today
The Input of Heritage
Builders or Architects?
PART III: RASA IN ARCHITECTURE
The Concept of Rasa
Civilized Art and Primitive Art
Celebrating Diversity


· Does an Asian Architecture Exist?
PART IV: CLASH OR ASSIMILATION OF ARCHITECTURAL VALUES
Globalization and the Ethics of Architecture
An Indian Vision of the World
Dialogue among Cultures
The Spirit of Location
The Ethics of Architecture
The Game of Light
The Dialectic of Interior and Exterior
Spiritualizing
Architecture
Conceptualizing Islamic Architecture
Living Architecture
PART V: ICONIC FORMS AND SYMBOLS
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