HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

SUMMITED BY :-
RUSHIKESH WADEKAR
VIKRANT VATHKAR

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
AR CRISTOPHER CHARLES BENNINGER
CCBA Pune.
GUIDED BY:-
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 VISION OF FIRM

 Christopher Charles Benninger Architects is a laboratory of exploration and experimentation. We search and
research for solutions to our clients’ problems and aspirations. We analyse the parameters and factors that
define physical products, which are affordable, durable, functional, ecological and beautiful.

 The firm has always functioned as a studio, only taking up projects involving study, analysis and exploration of
CCBA stands for Cristopher Charles Benninger visual, spatial, formal, social and technological ideas and concepts related to architecture, urbanism and human
and associates , an architectural firm based in settlements. As architects we bring to the context more than just these utilitarian goals…we seek the poetry in
Pune . The firm started as a small proprietorship the place, the lyricism in the built-forms and vibrancy in the inhabitants’ lives. Our endeavor is to create
design firm in 1995 by the Company Founder environments, ambiances and milieus, which enrich our clients’ lives and make living a meaningful experience.
ChairmanandPrincipalArchitect Prof.Christopher
Benninger along with Founder Managing Director
Mr. Ramprasad Akkisetti. With the changing
economic liberalization, and part of the expansion Pune, India
plan, Benninger Technical Services came into
being in 1999 that eventually morphed into
Christopher Charles Benninger Architects Private ‘India House’, 53 Sopan Bagh, Adjoining BJP Office, Opposite Bharati
Limited (shortened to be addressed as CCBA) in Vidyapeeth School, Balewadi, Pune 411 045
2000.
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Professor Benninger, is widely regarded as one of India’s foremost creative architects and is respected as a leading urban and
regional planner. He has been registered with the Council of Architecture since 1976 and is a Fellow of both the Institute of Town
Planners, India and the Indian Institute of Architects. He is a member of the Regional Science Association, India, the Institute of
Indian Geographers, the Pune International Centre, the World Society of Ekistics, the American Planning Association, the American
Institute of Architects, and the India Habitat Centre. He is a PIO cardholder, and an Indian taxpayer. Professor Benninger first came
to India in the mid-sixties as a Fulbright Scholar to carry out research at Balkrishna Doshi’s School of Architecture

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

In April 2010 Professor Benninger was awarded the Architect for the Decade Award his contribution to the profession of
architecture over that period. Over the past four years, on three occasions, the Indian Institute of Architects has honored him with
the award of Best Public Building of the Year for his designs of the Centre for Life Sciences, Health and Medicine, the YMCA
International Camp, Nilshi, India and for the Samundra Institute of Maritime Studies. The design for Suzlon One Earth has been
CHRISTOPHER CHARLES BENNINGER honored by the Architects, Engineers, Surveyors Association of Pune as the Best Architectural Work in the City in 2009 and it was
recently named the Most Sustainable Building in India, in a national competition. It is a LEED Platinum and Five Star Teri Griha
He is an American-Indian architect and planner. building. Christopher Benninger is currently the sixth winner in India of the Golden Architect Award for Lifetime Achievement
He started his career by working under the (2006) that was conferred in May 2007 by the A+D and Spectrum Foundation.
famous Spanish architect Jose Luis Sert and
learnt a lot from him. This experience brought
him in contact with the "European School" of
thought where abstraction, and a separation
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between nature and built form, played
important roles. He came to India on a Fulbright
Fellowship in 1968, and later as a Ford
Foundation consultant to set up the School of
Planning at Ahmedabad (1972) jointly with
Padmashree Balkrishna. V. Doshi. Since then,
he has been living and working in the South
Asian region for ovary forty years.

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Architecture for Modern India ARCHITECT
PROJECTS
UWC MAHINDRA NATIONAL
COLLEGE CEREMONIAL
Pune, Maharashtra, PLAZA
India Thimphu, Bhutan

LODHA JAMNALAL BAJAJ

BELMONDO INSTITUTE OF
Pune, Maharashtra, MANAGEMENT STUDIES
India Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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AWARDS
Pune, Maharashtra, India 1998 Inside-Outside Designer of the Year
Awards

1999 J.K. Cement-Architect of the Year

Location Built Up Area Site Area Awards
Pune, Maharashtra, India 19,973 Square Meters 120 Acres
Commendation Award for Public Building

2000 Journal of the Indian Institute of

The concept of the campus plan evolved from that of a mandala. It centers the plan of this diverse, micro cosmos, around an Architects
academic quadrangle with passages radiating out from it, offering points of encounter along the way, as well as views towards
the valleys in the distance and a series of interconnected, flowing spaces. Using the auspicious North-South axis to intersect the Anchor Award for Public Building Category
sun’s east-west movement in a plan centered on the academic quadrangle, a system of individual structures is laid out, each
having their own character and identity, yet integrated via connecting walls and a strong architectural language of masonry and 2000 The Business Week
terracotta tile roofs.
Architectural Record Awards of AIA, USA

2001 The Aga Khan Award for

Architecture Geneva, Switzerland
Finalist for, 8th Cycle

2002 The World Architecture Awards,

Berlin Finalist
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The interiors of India House
Pune, Maharashtra, India include various contemporary
and traditional art works and
folk crafts.

Location Built Up Area Site Area

Pune, Maharashtra, India 1,500 Square Meters 0.27 Acres

India House is a systematic

composition of three equal
sized volumes, with the
India House is conceptually derived from a traditional urban prototype called a haveli, or a Wada in Pune. Wadas form the middle volume left open as
urban fabric of Pune’s core, old city, where they enclose central courtyards, India House is a systematic composition of the atrium courtyard,
three equal sized volumes, with the middle volume left open as the atrium courtyard, admitting sunlight and breezes. This
atrium acts as the studio breakout space at for design teams, and an outdoor café for lunches, catalyzing communication
and interaction. Visiting student and professional groups meet here for discussions and lectures.

A lap pool in the courtyard and lotus pools in the promenade, cool the premises by creating a microclimate in the enclosed
spaces. The front main portal, or the Mahadwara, is an Eighteenth-Century wood door, salvaged from an ancient Moghul
haveli of north India. From this four-and-a-half-meter tall portal, with a small convenience door built into it, leading into
the atrium courtyard, one’s sightline is focused onto a large Shiva bust, sculpted in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.