Photo: Mahendra Raj in his Dehli office, 2015. © Ariel Huber
Conférence
6 octobre 2016
Engineering and Designing Modern India
L’éminent ingénieur structurel Mahendra Raj en discussion avec Aurelio Muttoni, Eric Lapierre et Ariel Huber
Introduction by Vandini Mehta and Rohit Raj Mehndiratta
This lecture-debate on the creative collaboration between engineers and architects is a contribution to the ENAC programme ‘Projeter Ensemble’ aiming to train the future generation of engineers and architects to work together on the development of our built environment.
Mahendra Raj translated highly progressive and experimental structural systems into the Indian reality – in absence of the modern techniques and machinery available in the West at the time. His impressive oeuvre were calculated for a good part without the help of computers, and realised with simplest technical means and impressive manual skills.
In collaboration with some of the finest architects active in India at the time – Charles Correa, Balkrishna Doshi, Raj Rewal, Joseph Allen Stein and Louis Kahn to name a few – Mahendra Raj was able to realise an impressive oeuvre of spectacular structures, which helped define the architectural language of Nehru’s Modern India.
Conférence organisée en coopération avec les Archives de la construction moderne (Acm) et ENAC Projeter Ensemble
A l’occasion de la publication du livre: “THE STRUCTURE Works of Mahendra Raj” par Park Books.
Disponible à la vente pendant la conférence
 Chennai Market. © Ariel Huber, Lausanne |