WANT TO INDIA ... Among tasty foods and spicy oriental perfumes and summer heat is very similar to Indian qulla, it was concluded, Thursday, July 1, the series "Cinema & Architecture "Order of Architects of Varese. For one night, the garden and the hall of the headquarters of the Order
have become a microcosm of India, where everything, from beginning to end, smelled of East India. To begin, the guests could taste some delicious Indian outdoors; the evening then continued inside, where Sandro Rolla and Arun Hazarika presented by internationally renowned architect of India: Balkrishna V. Doshi. In fact, for the architect, there were only two speakers, but also a series of videos and documentaries about India.
"That evening we opted for a particular presentation, a little linear and fragmented," said Sandro fact Rolla "considering it as the best solution to describe a country that is not at all linear.
excerpts of documentaries from the sixties as "Notes for a Film on" Pier Paolo Pasolini, interspersed with falsh of contemporary films like "The Millionaire" by Danny Boyle, showed the many faces of India, out of extreme poverty in the slums, to life completely separate the upper social classes, from ancient traditions, the great desire for modernity. And this desire led to the reconstruction, in the fifties, one of the most famous cities of India, Chandigarh, for which they were called the great architects as Le Corbusier: Create modernity, in fact, and erroneously, meant, in those years, to rebuild Western forms, which were unsuitable over time in eastern countries, with traditions and different needs.
Witness this city, founded on a regular basis and concepts
typically Western, which unfortunately does not belong to the Eastern view. Despite this, its inhabitants, even if convinced he is unable to live better, are proud of their city, recognizing the importance and value of buildings created by talented people like Le Corbusier e. Doshi. It is therefore the Indian architect Balkrishna V. Doshi, who was given the evening of Thursday, the arduous task of carrying forward the project for the city designed by Le Corbusier, with whom he worked in Europe and from which he drew important teachings.
These and many other aspects that emerged from the two movies where the protagonist is Doshi: known for having designed the main school of Architecture in India (Center for Environmental Planning & Technology, CEPT), the video appears not only in the guise of an architect, but mainly as a man of deep spirituality in a long conversation, tells his life, marked by the architecture, which he regarded as research, "a search that always starts somewhere and ends somewhere else" and as a method of processing, but also deals with transcendental issues, citing the Kharma, destiny, what is irrevocable and to which no one can steal. "If you allow life to take its course, you land where you want":
Doshi's speech on the Kharma concludes the evening dedicated to him and also closes the loop "Cinema and Architecture," to which the organizers, architects Rolla and Sandro Emanuele Brazzelli, have bravely given a particular cut, not only architectural , but also aesthetic, social and philosophical. A series of evenings that by tackling unusual subjects, enriched by the remarks of speakers qualified Italian and foreign, has allowed the public to do, every Thursday, for one month, small space travel through six cities in the world, time shifts, over a century history, and cultural experiences through music, food, videos, and of course, architecture!
To see the complete video of the evening, go to the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Ordinevarese
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