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Explores how modern architecture in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have given shape and manifestation to proclaiming autonomy, articulating national identities, and enacting social progress.--Cristina Kiran Piotti Architectural Digest A new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independence.... A major contribution.--Matt Shaw Guardian A standard reference not only for architectural historians but also for future urban planners in societies undergoing transformation.--Jonathon Keats Forbes: Media Filled with unsung triumphs and overlooked discoveries, the show is set to cast the architectural legacy of these South Asian countries in a renewed light.--Pei-Ru Keh Wallpaper* Impresses the role architecture played in articulating and actualising what it meant to be politically sovereign after centuries of foreign imperial rule.--Cleo Roberts-Komireddi Art Newspaper It's a sweeping, occasionally heartbreaking exhibition full of big ideas and beautiful work, too much of it not widely known.--Michael Kimmelman New York Times: Arts

A rigorous revisionist deep-dive into a moment in history where Modernity promised more than it could ultimately deliver.--Suleman Anaya ""PIN-UP"" Steeped in longing for a return to a more hopeful time when architects made nation-states. The drawings, models, and photographs on display reflect a willingness on the part of mid-century architects to collaborate with nation builders, no matter the cost.--Ateya Khorakiwala ""The Architect's Newspapaer"" Explores how modern architecture in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have given shape and manifestation to proclaiming autonomy, articulating national identities, and enacting social progress.--Cristina Kiran Piotti ""Architectural Digest"" A new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independence.... A major contribution.--Matt Shaw ""Guardian"" A standard reference not only for architectural historians but also for future urban planners in societies undergoing transformation.--Jonathon Keats ""Forbes: Media"" Filled with unsung triumphs and overlooked discoveries, the show is set to cast the architectural legacy of these South Asian countries in a renewed light.--Pei-Ru Keh ""Wallpaper*"" Impresses the role architecture played in articulating and actualising what it meant to be politically sovereign after centuries of foreign imperial rule.--Cleo Roberts-Komireddi ""Art Newspaper"" It's a sweeping, occasionally heartbreaking exhibition full of big ideas and beautiful work, too much of it not widely known.--Michael Kimmelman ""New York Times: Arts""

A new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independence.... A major contribution.--Matt Shaw Guardian A standard reference not only for architectural historians but also for future urban planners in societies undergoing transformation.--Jonathon Keats Forbes: Media Filled with unsung triumphs and overlooked discoveries, the show is set to cast the architectural legacy of these South Asian countries in a renewed light.--Pei-Ru Keh Wallpaper* Impresses the role architecture played in articulating and actualising what it meant to be politically sovereign after centuries of foreign imperial rule.--Cleo Roberts-Komireddi Art Newspaper It's a sweeping, occasionally heartbreaking exhibition full of big ideas and beautiful work, too much of it not widely known.--Michael Kimmelman New York Times: Arts

"A rigorous revisionist deep-dive into a moment in history where Modernity promised more than it could ultimately deliver.--Suleman Anaya ""PIN-UP"" Steeped in longing for a return to a more hopeful time when architects made nation-states. The drawings, models, and photographs on display reflect a willingness on the part of mid-century architects to collaborate with nation builders, no matter the cost.--Ateya Khorakiwala ""The Architect's Newspapaer"" Explores how modern architecture in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have given shape and manifestation to proclaiming autonomy, articulating national identities, and enacting social progress.--Cristina Kiran Piotti ""Architectural Digest"" A new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independence.... A major contribution.--Matt Shaw ""Guardian"" A standard reference not only for architectural historians but also for future urban planners in societies undergoing transformation.--Jonathon Keats ""Forbes: Media"" Filled with unsung triumphs and overlooked discoveries, the show is set to cast the architectural legacy of these South Asian countries in a renewed light.--Pei-Ru Keh ""Wallpaper*"" Impresses the role architecture played in articulating and actualising what it meant to be politically sovereign after centuries of foreign imperial rule.--Cleo Roberts-Komireddi ""Art Newspaper"" It's a sweeping, occasionally heartbreaking exhibition full of big ideas and beautiful work, too much of it not widely known.--Michael Kimmelman ""New York Times: Arts"""

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Martino Stierli is The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sean Anderson, Associate Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Director-General, Bengal Institute Da Hyung Jeong Evangelos Kotsioris, Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Nonica Datta Prajna Desai, C-MAP Fellow for Asia, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Farhan Karim, Assistant Professor of Architectural History, Architecture Department, School of Architecture & Design, The University of Kansas Saloni Mathur Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Anoma Pieris, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne Mrnalini Rajagopalan Peter Scriver, Associate Professor, and Amit Srivastava, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide Devika Singh, Affiliated Scholar, Centre of South Asian Studies of the University of Cambridge; Member of Global Art Prospective, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris Amit Srivastava

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