Rehabilitation of the Street
Rehabilitation of the Street Why was this important? For convenience? For swanky Mediterranean aesthetics? Or did planning a city for the future, aimed at human unity, require a closer look at [...]
Re-View & Mobility
Need for a Re-view As earlier posts reveal, Roger Anger and his team were working with the 'givens' they received from the Mother, their ‘client’ and with the vision parameters set by her for a [...]
Water & Solar
WATER & SOLAR Before meeting the architect: Have you heard of Auroville?... Now I have my general plan, I am waiting for the architect….... This central point is a park…a park with water and [...]
Urbanism of Auroville by Mario Heymann
In this talk, Mario Heymann, Roger’s partner, who met the Mother in 1966 and visited the barren Auroville site, outlines their ongoing research for Auroville’s urbanism as they work on the [...]
UNESCO Presentation by Roger Anger
Excerpts from the talk by Roger Anger, at the UNESCO Conference in Paris, November 1966, soon after the Nebula plan was made. It marks the vision, process and guiding definitions of urbanism [...]
For Architects & Engineers
Auroville To the architects and engineers You are not here to discuss the project. You are here to build the city. This message by the Mother was given to the Auroville Archives by the [...]
The City The Earth Needs
Earth needs a place where men can live away from all national rivalries, social conventions, self-contradictory moralities and contending religions; a place where human beings, freed from all [...]
Starting with a City Plan
In 1965, the Mother invited the French architect, Roger Anger, to prepare the plan for this new city based on her vision. Often there is speculation as to who actually was behind the plan
An Introduction
Auroville completed its first fifty years in February 2018. In February 1968, the Mother read out a Charter to mark the birth of this new city aimed at human unity, across a barren plateau where [...]