India Modern: Traditional Forms and Contemporary Design

by Herbert J. M. Ympa and Herbert J.M. Ypma

India Modern is a visually stunning compilation of modern Indian design and architecture. This beautiful book examines contemporary sub-continental design and craft, to identify it within the context of native traditions and history. It explores the vast range of roots and themes from village societies to Mogul palaces, to illustrate how traditional forms and methods are reinvigorated in contemporary arts. Herbert Ypma travelled across India to bring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071483646X
• ISBN13: 9780714836461
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.9" x 11.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Amazing Pictures

Amazing pictures of contemporary India. It represents truly what India is...a unique mixture of the modern intersped with the traditional. The architecture represented within is the best of a vernacular response to westernization. Suggested is reading on each of the topics touched topically. Also suggested is getting the "smaller" version of the book...; with cuter images and the classic pocketbook appearence. This one is just a bigger copy of the other. Personally these are the best images of India I can come across and all my office collegues are amazed by them.