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AB -  would ensure its proper cataloging and preservation, feats that would be difficult to achieve in India. A visit to the Chandigarh City Museum demonstrates how Le Corbusier's drawings have been treated and makes Correa's choice understandable. The exhibition, designed by David Adjaye and curated by Irena Murray, was spread over two floors. On the lower level a series of timber plinths painted in delightful hues of paprika, turmeric, and saffron invoked the Jawahar Kala Kendra project that Correa realized in Jaipur between 1986 and 1991. Although this dramatic introduction to the work led one to expect something really special, the exhibition failed to do justice to this enigmatic architect. Exhibitions of architecture are peculiar affairs, not least because they usually feature not architecture but the machinery created as a result of, or to enable the production of, the artifact in question--what Correa himself calls the trail left by a snail. The gap between drawing and architecture is especially apparent in an exhibition of Correa's work. The buildings and spaces ("the empty center," in Correa's parlance) need to be moved through, set against an open sky, and, as Adjaye suggests in the catalogue, absorbed through the soles of the 
TI - Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Geschichte und Poesie
JF - Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
DO - 10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.155
DA - 2014-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-california-press/karl-friedrich-schinkel-geschichte-und-poesie-pLG6t0AEku
SP - 155
VL - 73
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -