{"id":41905,"date":"2022-02-23T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/feb\/22\/south-asian-architecture-moma-exhibition"},"modified":"2022-02-23T00:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:30:14","slug":"they-were-transforming-their-countries-south-asian-architecture-after-british-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41905","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They were transforming their countries\u2019: South Asian architecture after British rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MoMA exhibition takes a new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independence<\/p>\n<p>Light lands softly on concrete walls in a series of silver gelatin prints by an unknown photographer. These small, souvenir-like snapshots give glimpses into the houses of Sri Lanka\u2019s first female architect, Minette de Silva. Here, there are no architectural drawings or models \u2013 those have been lost to time. What we see are the personal artifacts of De Silva\u2019s mentee Anuradha Mathur \u2013 documents that have been newly uncovered as part of the exhibition The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947\u20131985, at the Museum of Modern Art.<\/p>\n<p>De Silva\u2019s work \u2013 shown though this unconventional medium from an unconventional source \u2013 sheds light on the architect\u2019s regional modernist architecture that has been largely ignored by institutions in the west. It is among many such materials now being brought to light both literally and metaphorically.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/feb\/22\/south-asian-architecture-moma-exhibition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MoMA exhibition takes a new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independenceLight lands softly on concrete walls in a series of silver gelatin prints by an unknown photographer. These small, s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465,546,91,327,71,90,62,60,61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-bangladesh","category-culture","category-exhibitions","category-india","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41906,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41905\/revisions\/41906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}