Title:
Auroville Architecture
Subtitles / Reproduction:
Towards New Forms for a New Consciousness
Keyword:
Architektur - Allgemein
Binding / Picture Size:
Brosch.
Place of publishing:
Auroville
Year of publication:
2011
Book Details / Size:
Gr.8°, 169 S., zahlr., meist farb. Abb.
Description:
4. Aufl. - «Auroville (City of Dawn) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district mostly in the state of Tamil Nadu, India with some parts in the Union Territory of Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (known as "the Mother") and designed by architect Roger Anger. [...] At its Annual Conference in 1964 and with Mirra Alfassa as its Executive President, the Sri Aurobindo Society in Pondicherry passed a resolution for the establishment of a city dedicated to the vision of Sri Aurobindo. Alfassa was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who believed that "man is a transitional being". Alfassa expected that this experimental "universal township" would contribute significantly to the "progress of humanity towards its splendid future by bringing together people of goodwill and aspiration for a better world." Alfassa also believed that such a universal township will contribute decisively to the Indian renaissance» (Wikipedia).