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Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed for post-independence Ahmedabad that now faces an uncertain future. This book examines Sanskar Kendra both as a physical artifact and as a site of broader cultural debates.



Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed for post-independence Ahmedabad that now faces an uncertain future. This book examines Sanskar Kendra both as a physical artifact and as a site of broader cultural debates.

Originally conceived as a Citizens' Cultural Center to serve India's emerging modern society, the building was intentionally designed as an alternative to colonial and European museum models. Today, however, the abandoned structure seems increasingly disconnected from the rapidly changing city growing around it. Through detailed analysis of the project's ambitious beginnings and the debates surrounding its potential demolition, the collection explores themes ranging from concrete construction techniques to questions about who gets included—and excluded—from public cultural spaces. The essays bring together local and international perspectives on pressing contemporary issues: how we care for and maintain our built environments, what it means to create truly participatory public spaces in an age of market-driven development, and how design can serve as a tool for social change. Two of the chapters take a visual approach to these questions. Award-winning architectural photographer Randhir Singh contributes a photo essay that captures the building's current state, while another chapter presents speculative architectural designs that imagine alternative futures for Sanskar Kendra. The book concludes with renowned architect B.V. Doshi's reflections on the architect's responsibility to society.

This book will appeal to scholars, educators, and students working in architectural theory, history, and design education. It's also valuable for readers interested in visual culture, urban studies, museum and curatorial studies, and South Asian studies.

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This volume of essays brings into critical focus the future of twentieth-century modern architecture in India. The essays illustrate the complex relationships between tangible and intangible realities that shape the spirit of our cities and inform our understanding of Indian urbanism.

Brinda Somaya, Principal Architect, Somaya Sampat; A.D. White Professor-at-Large Emerita, Cornell University; Founder Trustee: The HECAR Foundation

This book on Le Corbusiers Sanskar Kala Kendra, more generally known as the Museum of Knowledge, in Ahmedabad, India, is a rare set piece of the type of interdisciplinary scholarship that brings into conversation architectures deeply situated nature.

Mark Jarzombek, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, MIT

Positioning Sanskar Kala Kendra metaphorically, the book expansively unpacks the disjunctures that aesthetic modernity as a proposition grappled with in a landscape where social and economic modernization remains an incomplete projectone now overrun by the tyranny of images circulating globally.

Rahul Mehrotra, John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

A building as an indeterminate discourse, an architect as a provocateur, and a collection of essays thickening the brew, Building and Unbuilding the City Museum will become a critical compass in navigating the life of a civic building in shifting ideologies.

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Architect and architectural historian

A searing account of the complex process through which modern architecture is evolving into a form of archaeological knowledge. Sarosh Anklesaria and Lily Chi present a powerful framework that challenges us to reconsider whetherand howthis archaeological knowledge can be made relevant to the communities of the future.

Farhan Karim, Arizona State University

0. Introduction A Walk through Sanskar Kendra (Sarosh Anklesaria) The
Terms of Debate (Lily Chi) Dormant City Museum: A Photo Essay (Randhir Singh)
Part One: Situating Sanskar Kendra: Histories and Context
1. Negotiating the
Local and the Universal, the Client and the Architect at Sanskar Kendra
(Daniel Williamson)
2. Reading the Museum as Infrastructure: From the
Mundaneum to Sanskar Kendra (Sarosh Anklesaria)
3. Similarities and
Differences of Le Corbusiers Museums at Ahmedabad, Tokyo, and Chandigarh
(Maria Cecilia OByrne)
4. Exposing Concrete: The Constructional Legacies
of the City Museum (Gauri Bharat and Mallika Nyshadham) Part Two: Critiques
and Redirections
5. Ahmedabad: The Middle-Class Megacity (Mona Mehta)
6.
Sanskar Kendra: Re-membering the Cultural Centre (Shubhra Raje and Riyaz
Tayyibji)
7. Reflections on the Making of the Bihar Museum and the
Conflictorium (Batul Raaj Mehta and Avni Sethi)
8. Sanskar Kendra Today: Is
my Modernism Your Millstone? (A Conversation with Mrinalini Rajagopalan) Part
Three: Learning from Sanskar Kendra
9. Disarticulating Architecture (Lily
Chi)
10. Refractions on Sanskar Kendra (Lily Chi and Sarosh Anklesaria)
11.
B.V Doshi on the Responsibilities of the Architect (A Conversation with
Students).
Sarosh Anklesaria is an Associate Teaching Professor and Track Chair of Carnegie Mellon Universitys Master of Architecture program. Educated at CEPT University, Ahmedabad (Dip.Arch.), and Cornell University (M.Arch.), he has practiced in the United States, Switzerland, and India. His research and design advance architecture at the intersection of spatial justice and ecology in the built environmentrecent projects address aging modernism in South Asia and architectures of just transitions in post- and deindustrializing contexts.

Lily Chi is an Associate Professor of Architectural Design, Theory, and History at Cornell University. She received her B.Arch. in Canada and her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory at Cambridge and McGill Universities. Her current work examines the agency of built space as posed in post-war efforts to counter the effects of industrial capitalism on the urban everyday. Chi is co-editor of Seeding Urban Transformation (2026).
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