PONDICHERRY ARCHITECTONICAL HERITAGE GUIDE

About the author

Dr. Raphaël Malangin is a specialist of the historyof the French and Indian relations during the late 18th century. Graduated from the University of Nantes (France), he settled in Pondicherry in2005 and has collaborated with the Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient, and INTAC on several projects related to Pondicherry’s heritage.

He teaches studios, lecture courses and seminars on issues in global architecture and urbanism and postcolonial history and theory at the University of Washington in Seattle (USA). He is the Director of the Chandigarh Urban Lab, a multi-year project that studies Chandigarh, historically and today, as a case study in contemporary midsized urbanization in India.