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Mission to Civilize Colonial Initiatives to Conserve Indian Antiquities A G Krishna Menon Mission to Civilize Colonial Initiatives to Conserve Indian Antiquities A G Krishna Menon

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Mission to Civilize: Colonial Initiatives to Conserve Indian AntiquitiesA G Krishna MenonIndian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage,New Delhi 110003, India Biographical infoA G Krishna Menon is an architect, urban planner and conservation consultant practicing in Delhi for over 30 years. He has been simultaneously teaching in Delhi and in 1990 cofounded the TVB School of Habitat Studies in New Delhi. In 2007 this private School became the teaching department of the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He is actively engaged in research and has contributed extensively to professional journals and several academic books. He has also been actively involved in urban conservation and in 2004 drafted the INTACH Charter for the Conservation of Unprotected Architectural Heritage and Sites in India. Recently he has been associated with the formulation of The Delhi Master Plan2021, The National Capital Region Master Plan021 and is a Member of several statutory Committees set up by the Government. Currently, in addition to his professional consultancy work, as the Convenor of INTACH’s Delhi Chapter, he is advocating the case for inscribing Delhi as a World Heritage City. This project seeks to transform the urbanscape of Delhi and align it to the architectural heritage of the city.Recent publications:Thinking ‘Indian’ Architecture,in The Discipline of Architecture, Andrjez Piotrowskiand Julia Williams Robinson, Editors, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2001, pp 208The Contemporary Architecture of Delhi: The Role of the State as Middleman, in Delhi: Urban Space and Human Destinies, Veronique Dupont, Emma Tarlow and Denis Vidal, Editors, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2000, pp 143156.Inventive Mimesis in New Delhi: The Temples of Chhatarpur, in Architectural Imitation, Reproductions and Pastiches in East and WestEdited by Wim Denslagen and Niels Gutschow, Shaker Publishing BV, Maastricht, 2005.Afterlife of the Venice Charter in Postcolonial India in Venice Charter Revisited: Modernism and Conservation in the PostWar WorldEditor, Matthew Hardy, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, 2009Delhi A Living Heritage, Project Director, IGNCA and INTACH, 2010Several monographs on Conservation practice published by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.Regular publication of critical articles in professional journals.