"The City of Delhi: Architecture & planning pre- & post- independence" a talk by Ms. Pilar Maria Guerrieri at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 26th September 2014

Time : 3:00 pm Add to Calendar 26-09-2014 15:00:00 26-09-2014 16:30:00 68 "The City of Delhi: Architecture & planning pre- & post- independence" a talk by Ms. Pilar Maria Guerrieri Event Page : http://goo.gl/8VbHq3 Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Seminar on "The City of Delhi: Architecture and planning pre- and post- independence" a talk by Ms. Pilar Maria Guerrieri, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy.

Abstract :

Delhi is one of the largest mega-cities in the world. As a Third World city, its development is strongly influenced by the multiple forces of globalisation. It is therefore, a fertile ground to study the process of hybridisation taking place in local architecture and urbanism. This lecture examines this process of hybridisation through the study of archival records of photographs and drawings of the city’s architecture and urban development from 1912 to 1962. Looking back at this critical period of the city’s evolution gives us the opportunity to investigate the current phenomena in a more detached historical perspective. The lecture focuses on the analysis of architectural and urban elements by identifying how those were affected by «foreign» cultures and local responses from within. The proposition it explores is how even external influences were transformed and to what extent these transformations and translations of elements were due to both external and internal exchange processes. The architectural elements analysed are the colonial plans of the city of New Delhi and Delhi Masterplan of 1962, architectural styles, residential typologies, neighbourhoods/colonies and public buildings; entirely based on «factual elements» but also on primary sources. The analysis of the contamination/hybridization between cultures has always been seen as a two-way process, gives us the opportunity to rethink and revise issues such as tradition, identity of places, cities and territory.  The documents that will be shown have been collected from the State Archive, National Archives of India, INTACH Archives, Institute of Town and Country Planning Organization, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Institute of Town Planners, Delhi Development Authority, School of Planning and Architecture, Central Public Works Archive, Kanvinde office, Nehru Memorial Library, Lalit Kala Akademi, Alkazi Foundation for The Arts, Royal Institute of British Architects (London), The British Library (London), Ford Foundation Archive (New York).

Speaker :

Ms. Pilar Maria Guerrieri graduated with full marks from the Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy) in July 2011. An architect with a strong passion for the history of architecture, she is now working on a Ph.D. in Architectural Design and History of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano in affiliation with the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) – Delhi Chapter. Her research project is titled ‘The City of Delhi: Architecture and Planning Pre- and Post-Independence (1912-1962)’. She is interested in particular in the city of Delhi, the architecture of India, speculating on the effects of cultural exchanges on architecture and planning, and understanding the meaning of «tradition» and «identity» of places.

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