Tag: Roger Anger
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Aspiration View
Here in Auroville we frequently hear tell the memory revisited of being able to see the sea from Aspiration in decades past. Since the past few posts have been on the topic of Aspiration, we thought we’d post this image below, in which are visible the sea on the horizon, and a few aspiration huts…
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A Hut at Hope
As we at the Archives were posting about pakka buildings at Aspiration and the Aspiration huts from the late-1960s and early-1970s, we were reminded by Anupama Kundoo that an earlier prototype of these huts was designed and built by Roger Anger and his team at Hope, before the Aspiration huts started to be built. So…
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Photos by Indra Poddar of Pakka Aspiration Buildings
Continuing with the theme of Indra Poddar’s photos from early Auroville days, here are a few of his photos of pakka (permanent) buildings from the Aspiration area. These photos, some of buildings under construction and some of buildings just finished, were taken in the early 1970s. Aspiration was the first large community in Auroville, and…
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Plans and Sketches for the Inauguration
Planning for the inauguration included construction of the Amphitheater which would house and surround the Urn, as well as designing the exhibition at the Banyan tree. Roger Anger’s team drew maps to show the route from Pondicherry to the site of the inauguration, and the layout and positioning of activities and locations at the site.…
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1969 (?) Brochure With Galaxy Plan
By the time the year 1969 ended, many different brochures about Auroville had been printed. The one below (if it indeed is from 1969), is one of the first brochures to include an image of the Galaxy Plan. The Galaxy Plan was shown to the public during the inauguration ceremony of Auroville on 28th February…
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Inauguration Brochure
We continue with our look at early Auroville brochures. After 1966’s “Nebula” brochure and 1967’s “Macrostructure” brochure, in April 1968, a few weeks after Auroville’s inauguration ceremony, the brochure below was published, announcing the inauguration and enshrining some of the iconic photos from the event!
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4 Photos of Matrimandir Under Construction
Four photos of Matrimandir under construction, from different years.
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Auroville’s second brochure, featuring the “Megastructure Plan”
After showcasing Auroville’s first brochure in the weekly dose a couple of weeks ago, we now present Auroville’s second brochure, published a year later in 1967! The first brochure featured the Nebula Plan, and this second one features the Megastructure Plan. In this way, these early brochures, which were published and distributed even before the…
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Origin of the Galaxy Plan’s Crown and Circulation Network
Since the topic of the Crown is very much in focus in Auroville these days, we thought we’d explore the origins of the Crown as an urban design element in the Galaxy Plan. This exploration necessarily also includes the overall circulation network of the Galaxy Plan that the Crown is a part of. What is…
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Auroville’s first brochure, featuring the “Nebula Plan”
The idea to establish Auroville started to coalesce around end-1964/beginning-1965, and the Mother asked prominent French architect Roger Anger to design the township for her in March 1965. While the famous model of the Galaxy Plan was ready by Auroville’s inauguration day on February 28th 1968 and displayed to the public during the ceremony, there…
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