COURSE TITLE: Contemporary Architecture L -3 T -0 P -0 Cr 3

COURSE CODE: ARC316

CA CATEGORY: A23
EXAM CATEGORY: 55
WEEK NO.: 4 LECTURE NO. # 10

LECTURE DETAIL :

POST MODERN ARCHITECTURE

(ACHYUT P.KANVINDE)

COURSE INSTRUCTOR: MOSTAFIZUR UID: 19838

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Padma Shri Achyut P. Kanvinde

occupied unique position in the
history of contempory Indian
architecture.

He was an Indian architect , teacher,

writer and a committed
modernist as he always desired to
take Indian architecture to be
global and to the height of
international style.

1916-2002
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Birth : 1916 Died : 6 december 2002

Early life and education:
-He was born in 1916 in Konkan region of Maharastra
-His father was an arts teacher in bombay.
-He finished his B.Arch from sir J.J. School of arts (1935-1940),
-Later he studied design in Havard university under walter gropius.
Career:
He return to India in 1948 and worked on the planning and design of several
laboratories for the council of scientific and industrial research. He set up his pvt. firm with
Shaukat Rai, a civil engineer in 1955.
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PRINCIPLES
1. Functionalism
• there buildings were always conceived with first priority given to its
functions, and the social values when designing spaces.
• He rejected symmetry
2. modern architecture and brutalism
• Elimination of unnecessary detail. Visual expression of structure, as
opposed to the hiding of structural element.
• Developed to create functional structures at a low cost, but
eventually designers adopted the look for other uses such as college
buildings
3. Regionalism
• local climate, building material
• social condition, sound climatological principles

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 FUNCTIONALIST STYLE OF DESIGN

• Functionalism was an approach to design as per

the concept that the space and form of a
building should emerge out of the logical
arrangement of space inside and not from any
predetermined idea like symmetry.
• Functionalist believed a building should only
have features that were functionally necessary
and no non-functional Decoration.
• They lead to humane space that is space where
you felt welcome and comfortable. They used
lastest technology and industrial materials like National insurance
door and windows and RCC. Academy at pune

 LOGIC OF LIGHTNESS

The complete focus on the materials to be used in

construction Kanvinde always try to develop such an
aesthetic for a heavy mass construction that looks
light.
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IIT,
 RATIONALIST
KANPUR
• Kanvinde reveal the internal functional.
• In a building as separate masses and then
arranged in a ways that were functional
from inside and elegant from outside.

 SENSE OF SPACE

• Human-ness is all about size and scale,

Kanvinde always tried to bring down NIBM
buildings to humane scale and connection
to the built heritage in a locality.

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 His buildings were simple and he used to tell the students”

ARCHITECTURE IS NOT A MUSEUM OF MATERIAL”.

PHILOSPHY
Kanvinde plays with space and forms. His designs are slender, balanced,
proportionate, neat and well crafted.
 The building is important but most important is the gate of the user. Example is
“Isckon Temple”.
 He gave much more importance to the natural light. He gave such a form to the
building that it can solve the problem of ventilation as well as excessive heat .
 He believed in Vernacular Architecture.
 He believed that the image should be such that can set the mood and interest
for which the building stands for.
 Both inherent values and historical influences contributed towards good
architecture.

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DESIGN CONCEPTS

 An art can be to nourish the senses. Art is purely an aesthetic exercise.

He believed that a grid of columns forming a matrix giving structural and
spatial aspect would turn a design to more sophisticated and faceted.
 He treated his building with “VASTUSHASTRA”.
 He also used Vernacular Architecture in foreign.
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ISKON TEMPLE, DELHI
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ISKON TEMPLE, DELHI

• Built in 1988
• 3 acre sloping site
• Deity space at highest level
• Assembly hall for 400 people
• Reinforced concrete framed structure with red white clad finish
• Service space like kitchen, dining for devotee, offices are located at the lower level

OTHER ACTIVITIES
• Multimedia cultural centre
• Auditorium
• Animistic presentation museum
• Dormitories for devotee
• Small shopping area
• Restaurant and offices
• Temple is around an informal space and sunk garden
• There are cascade all around and water fall to create ambience

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1. The Temple
2. The Museum of Vedic Culture
3. The Center for Vedic Studies
4. The Vedic Center For the Performing Arts
5. The Asrama
6. Krsna Jayanti Park

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IIT KANPUR

IIT KANPUR
BY - ACHUYT KANVINDE
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IIT KANPUR
• IIT-Kanpur is located on the Grand Trunk Road, 15 km west of Kanpur City and
measures close to 420hectares. This land was gifted by the Government of Uttar
Pradesh in 1960 and by March 1963 the Institute had moved to its current location.

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IITK

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FEATURES

• The IITK campus occupies a 1055 acre area.

• The Academic Complex is located centrally at the site and free from traffic noise.
• Academic buildings: 13 departments, PK Kelkar Library, Computer Centres faculty offices,
laboratories and administrative buildings
• Around 7000 students, 390 faculty, and 1000 staff members (and their families) reside on
campus
• No. of buildings: 108
• 10 boys hostel and 2 girls hostel
• With Sports complex, Housing for faculty
• The site is flat with the canal on one side and transportation route on the other side.
• Pedestrian and vehicular traffic are completely segregated.

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CONCEPT AND IDEOLOGY

• The residential campus is planned and landscaped with a hope for environmental
freedom.
• Halls of residence, faculty and staff houses and community buildings surround the
central academic area to provide flexibility in movement and communication.
• Core Pedestrian island which consist of lecture halls surrounded by landscaping and
water body forming the main focus of the campus.
• The academic area is well connected by a long corridor which links all the major
buildings
• The academic area is set up in vicinity of Hostels to provide quick accessibility to
students
• Conventional type of buildings were designed as isolated islands of departments
• Activities which students and faculties share are designed to encourage meeting and
interaction

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Academic Area
• Institute's Academic Area comprises academic buildings and facilities including the 
PK Kelkar Library, Computer Centre, National Wind Tunnel Facility and SIDBI
Innovation and Incubation Centre. It also houses faculty offices, laboratories and
administrative buildings. The academic area is connected by a long corridor which
links all the major buildings.

SIDBI INNOVATION & INCUBATION CENTRE

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P.K. KELKAR LIBRARY

• Established in 1960 as Central Library. Renamed as P.K. Kelkar
Library in 2001. „
• Four-storied building (covered area: 5730 sq. m.)
• Basement - 700 sq m
• Ground floor - 700 sq m
• First floor -1630 sq m
• Second floor - 2700 sq m
• Staff strength – 40
• Exposed brickwork:
reduces maintenance
costs and enhances
aesthetic appeal

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P.K. KELKAR LIBRARY

 The library forms an important part of the whole complex.
 It is a framed structure based on grid.
 The whole building is built in R.C.C with a brick facade.

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Structural design
Of library Connecting corridors
P.K. Kelkar library

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IIT-K
• The residential campus is planned and landscaped with a hope
for environmental freedom.
• Halls of residence, faculty and staff houses and community
buildings surround the central academic area to provide
flexibility in movement and communication.
• Taking into consideration the reality that research work in the
present time is a collaborative work of varied disciplines,
curriculum of studies is worked out, with that goal in mind.

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HALL OF RESIDENCE

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Kanvinde’s expressive architecture was

variously interpreted as "an
architectural expression that reflected
the culture and aspirations“.
In retrospect, that style shows a
remarkable similarity with the brute
morphology of vernacular
architecture in parts of India.

Expressed Concrete structure in

combination with brick became the
dynamic determinant of form and
order. 
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SPLIT LEVEL CORRIDOR SYSTEM

• Minimize the walking distance, improving connectivity
• Create spatial expansion
• Give the impression of one large space hence space is used as a tool

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IIT KANPUR

• Elevated pedestrian walkway

• Sheltered and yet openness
• Protection from hot sun yet
allowing breezes
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VISUAL EXPRESSION OF THE

STRUCTURE RATHER THAN
HIDING ITS STRUCTURAL
COMPONENTS

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ORIENTATION

VISITORS HOSTEL
LIBRARY

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SECTION

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IITK
• Reveals the internal functions in a building as separate masses.
• Arranged in ways that were functional from inside and elegant from
outside.
• Kanvinde strongly believed that the elevation of a structure should be
defined by the functions inside.

Terrace
Research Research
Conference
Computer
Research Computer
Terrace

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MATERIALS
• In Kanpur, the local availability of high quality brick and the prevalent
labour and construction practices made Kanvinde go for reinforced
concrete for structural frames and brick as infill's .
• reinforced-concrete post-and-slab construction, with a series of flat
slab-floors and a flat roof-slab carried on concrete columns or posts

bricks

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CONCLUSION
• His works are generally raw and unemotional. Yet he managed to
make his designs appealing and welcoming.
• His designs were distinct and unique yet having one thing similar-
functionalism.
• His designs appear to be built with a large amount of thought
having been given to making them functionally efficient and
practically feasible. 
• Conventional type of buildings were designed as isolated islands
of departments.
• Activities which students and faculties share are designed to
encourage meeting and interaction.

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SKETCHING

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