Non-Aligned Modernism

What does it mean to build a nation’s identity from scratch? This lecture traces the life of Aditya Prakash, one of India’s first Modernist architects. His son, Vikramaditya Prakash, explores his body of work that reflects the idea of non-aligned modernism — a third way of building a modern, internationalist identity of a newly independent nation, resisting allegiance to either capitalist or communist blocs.

Born in 1924 in colonial India, Aditya Prakash trained in London before joining the Chandigarh Capital office as a junior architect under Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Over the…