20th Century Compulsions: Modern Indian Architecture from the MARG Archives

20th Century Compulsions Modern Indian Architecture from the MARG Archives edited by Mustansir Dalvi Published by MARG, 2016 The spirit of architecture completely transformed in the 20th century and MARG magazine, founded in 1946, was at the forefront of documenting that change. The leading lights of architecture in the world wrote significant short texts for MARG that set forth not just an agenda for architecture that would shape the new India, but the habitats of a new social order. This anthology comprises a selection of these essays, as relevant now as they were when they first appeared.

With writings by Mulk Raj Anand Durga Bajpai Andrew Boyd Le Corbusier B V Doshi Jane Drew Patrick Geddes Otto Koenigsberger Percy Marshall Eric Mendelsohn Louis Mumford Richard Neutra Emily Polk & A B Schwarz.

REVIEWS & MEDIA COVERAGE

Review by Nancy Adajania, published in TEKTON, Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2016