Architectural photographer Edmund Sumner has shared a set of images of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad by architect Louis Kahn, which was recently saved from demolition.
Sumner took the photos of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), which faced an international outcry over its plans to demolish 14 buildings on the site, over a series of visits between 2008 and 2016.
Dormitories at IIMA were under threat of demolition
"I first photographed the Indian Institute of Management in 2008 as part of a story on Ahmedabad's modernist legacy, the weather was brutally hot but the building and its immediate environment were cool and its shaded corridors refreshingly cool with its semi-tropical vegetation offering a further respite from the brutal sun," Sumner told Dezeen. "Anyone who has travelled to India will know how frantic and hectic the pace of life is, in short, it can be overwhelming. I planned to spend an hour maybe two at IIMA but ended up staying all day and have returned on many occasions since."
Edmund Sumner photographed the campus between 2008 and 2016
The management school in Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat came under pressure after it revealed that it intended to replace a series of crumbling dormitories designed by American architect Kahn with new buildings.
Following international pressure, including a petition organised by UK magazine the Architectural Review, the school's board of governors announced it ...