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Architect
Anant
Damoda
r Raje (September 26
1929 - June 27,
2009)
Life & Times
Anant Raje was born in Mumbai, India. He studied at the Sir J. J. College of Architecture
He worked with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia, where he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania.
For over thirty years he has taught at the School of Architecture Ahmedabad.
He also taught at the University of New Mexico, in The United States of America, and was a visiting
professor at many universities in America and
Europe.
His well known works include the :
The Executive Management Centre at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India
The Forest Management Institute in Bhopal, India
Farmers Training Institute, Palanpur, Gujarat, India
The Institute of Statistics, New Delhi.
Management
Development Centre,
Ahmedabad
The Management development centre is the last
important element to be added
to Louis Kahn's campus for the
IIM left incomplete at his death.
Anant raje has shown due respect for that powerful context
by assiduously employing Kahns
brick vocabulary.
He has taken Kahns ideas on the order of the materials and
light further.
The play of light can be seen in the elegant shaft that pierce the
central academic block of the
complex.Interior court(junction of east wing and
central block)
Despite a masterful
fidelity to the
formal language
of Kahn, this
intimate
introverted
composition is a
refreshing
exception to the
overbearing
weight and
masculinity of
the earlier
campus
buildings-a
landmark in its
self.
Guest room wing flanking upper and lower courts
Lower courts
Plan
Indian Institute of Forest
management
Anant Raje has conceived this large govt. project with the combination of
Romanticism and Monumentality
unprecedented in recent Indian
architecture.
Contemporary images are secondary and there influence of the design; the
primary inspiration is historical, and
comes from the ruined palace of
Mundu.
The plan is a palimpsest: a formal base order half effaced by an overlay of
autonomous, sometimes colliding
geometries, like successive
archaeological deposits on a single site.
The dense congregation
of structures
creates a
romantic
sequence of
semi enclosed
and open to
sky spaces
intimate
enough in
scale to be a
useful, sun
protected
extension of
the building.
Exterior view dormitory complex
Viaduct linking library and
teaching wing
Viaduct,
detail
the model ,academic
complex
FARMERS TRAINING INSTITUTE,
PALANPUR, GUJARAT
The campus accomodates15-20 trainees, who, monk-like, are encouraged in their studies by the self contained isolation of the institute. Sleeping, eating, instruction, social activity, and all daily functions revolve around the tiny cloister.
This monastic analogy extends to the architecture in various respects; spatial orientation is consistently inward looking.
The curve sweep of the east wall decisively seals off the most public exposure of the building. A small gap is there to enter.
The dining loggia and casual activity spaces look in on the central quadrangle
In a manner reminiscent of monks cell in European charterhouses, the L-shaped
dormitories look in on semi contained verandas in lieu of direct views of rural
landscape.
CONSTRUCTION: It is simple and powerful. Rough dressed stone bearing walls with
clearly rendered slabs, arches and lintels in reinforced concrete.
All large spaces, such as the dining hall, are open to loggias which are in turn closed
owing to the perennial infiltration of hot winds and dust.
CONCLUSION
Anant raje plays of composition/light/form in a
truly unbelievable manner.
His deep veneration for Louis Kahn is
undisguised, but he has allowed himself
exceptional license to distort and enrich Kahns
idiom.
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