- Title
- Postcolonial fabulations: 'Mandala' and 'Manusha' in Correa's work
- Creator
- Mand, Harpreet
- Relation
- 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand (SAHANZ XXIX 2012). Conference Proceedings: Fabulation: Myth, Nature, Heritage: 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand (Launceston, Tas 5-8 July, 2012) p. 661-672
- Publisher
- Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand (SAHANZ)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Charles Correa's architecture stands out for its perceptive theoretical interpretation and insight. Regarding his architectural practice as the decolonisation of Indian architectural history, Correa aims to reconnect Indian architecture through imaginative and ethical endeavours to its roots. In his work, ‘Mandala’, refers not to the religious diagrams, but modes of creating and interpreting order. He conceptualizes and creates a mythology of Indian architecture in the Gandhian sense as a moral fable that re-presents the ‘Manusha’ as central to the postcolonial Indian task. This paper argues that ‘Mandala’ and ‘Manusha’—tropes in Correa's architectural practice—create postcolonial fabulations to accomplish decolonisation of the imagination, to express postcolonial Indian modernity in architecture.
- Subject
- Charles Correa; architecture; Indian architectural; postcolonial
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1340744
- Identifier
- uon:28564
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781862956582
- Language
- eng
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