Urban Topical Landscape

Marco Introini’s artistic vision makes it possible to discern a new code in architecture and in the design of the urban landscape. The new tropical architecture was developed to adapt modernity to a luxuriant natural setting and mitigate the rigors of an inhospitable climate, while establishing new standards and finding new means of formulating conventions of participation and cooperation. The warmth of this landscape of tropical modernity was to become part of the collective imagination. It was the first step in the creation of a democratic and transnational version of modernity that has spread through the marginal regions on the periphery of the world. Content of the book A protocol drawn up long ago in 1945 by Otto Koenigsberger, adopted in nearly one hundred instances in India and in more than half the world, provides the framework and rules for the planning of the prototypes of planned cities, and tells us that the so-called “Participative Architecture” aimed at intercultural inclusion, originated in the post-colonial territories between India and Africa. The catalogue, the fruition of a 5-year long Italian-Indian research, illustrates the consequences of democratic choice in independent India, its factual existence and its globalized outcomes, present even today. Presented in the installation, are four examples of Democratic New Towns – Jamshedpur, Bhubaneswar, Faridabad and Chandigarh- outcomes of the interface between the experiences of Frey, Drew and Le Corbusier and the ideas of their Indian counterparts, Varma, Doshi, Correa, Rewal. The cities are analytically described and documented through photographs of their present condition, preserved as the modern protected areas in Europe. Texts by: Maddalena d’Alfonso, Paolo Brescia, Anna Nurra, Elisa Fiscon, Jacopo Galli, Ingrid Paoletti Conversations with: Balkrishna V. Doshi, A.G. Krishna Menon, Rahul Mehrotra Milan, Museo Diocesano, April – September 2016 Official event of XXI International Exposition of Triennale di Milano, Design After Desig