| Publication |
Mumbai, Roli Books, 2016.
|
| Description |
295pWhite spine
|
| Summary/Abstract |
This book presents a treasury of Art Deco buildings comprising residential, commercial and civic architecture created during the glamorous and optimistic era of the mid 1930's and 1940's. The architects, a small list of first generation Indian architects and builders, were mostly educated in English schools and trained in western architectural traditions, if not actually in the West. Impatient with the British reluctance to shed the Gothic and Indo - Saracenic architectural styles that had dominated Imperial Bombay's urban landscape, these visionaries were determined to imbue the city with a new modern style.
|
| Contents |
Foreword / David Vinnels and Brent Skelly
Preface / Michael D. Kinerk, Dennis Wilhelm
Bombay : Asian city with a European past
Dawn of art deco Bombay
Bombay art deco motifs
Buildings
Bombay-Miami beach (BoMi) deco
Building and district index
Glossary
Bibliography and suggested reading
Includes: Map of the Victorian gothic and art deco ensembles - Foldout
|
| Standard Number |
9788174364470 Hb.
|