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The Structure

Works of Mahendra Raj

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Sixty years of engineering: Mahendra Raj's extraordinary structures in India and the Middle East


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Title Details
Edited by Vandini Mehta, Rohit Raj Mehndiratta, Ariel Huber
2016
Hardback
428 pages, 267 color and 303 b/w illustrations
19 x 25 cm
ISBN 978-3-03860-025-1

The Structure explores the work of Mahendra Raj, India’s most significant structural engineer. Examining Raj’s sixty prolific years of practice, this volume looks at his unusually inventive and intuitive work and how he has offered pioneering engineering solutions for buildings in exposed concrete. As this book shows, many of his structures can be seen as monuments narrating the history of architecture in post-independence India.

The Structure features twenty-eight of Mahendra Raj’s buildings in detail through rich photographs and color reproductions of archival plans. Essays are contributed by Raj himself and by the architects Neelkanth Chhaya and Jaimini Mehta. Also included are interviews with Raj by the architect Sanjay Prakash and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, a conversation with the architect BV Doshi, and an illustrated complete list of Raj’s works.

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