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Bombay art deco architecture : a visual journey,1930-1953 / Navin Ramani ; edited by Laura Cerwinske.
LIBRA NA1508.B65 R36 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramani, Navin.
- Series:
- Roli books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art deco (Architecture)--India--Mumbai.
- Art deco (Architecture).
- India--Mumbai.
- Buildings--India--Mumbai.
- Buildings.
- Physical Description:
- 295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New Delhi] : Lustre Press, Roli Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- Bombay Art Deco 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. That style shares its provenance with the Art Deco architecture of Miami Beach, termed Tropical Deco by author Laura Cerwinske in her seminal 1981 book. Built in the same era, the Art Deco architecture of the two cities exhibits similar scale, geometry, tropical vocabulary, and love of romance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 8174364471
- 9788174364470
- 9788174364487
- 817436448X
- OCLC:
- 85485409
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