Golconde: The Introduction of Modernism in India

A generous and carefully wrought illustration of modern architecture, this is an in-depth, critical study of Golconde—a little-known building in Pondicherry, India, designed by Antonin Raymond and George Nakashimha in 1935 and constructed between 1936 and 1942. Golconde was the first reinforced, cast-in-place concrete building in India and celebrated the modernist credo: architecture as the manifest union of aesthetics, technology, and social reform. Not simply a survey of a single building, this volume explores the entire founding of modern architecture in India by focusing on every aspect of the site from construction through historical reflection.