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[[File:Golconde Ashram.jpeg|thumb|Golconde dormitory of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry]]<br />
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'''Golconde Dormitory''', or '''Golconde''', is a private residence for the [[Sri Aurobindo Ashram]] in the town of [[Puducherry (city)|Puducherry, India]] designed by architect [[Antonin Raymond]], completed in 1942. Raymond designed the building to mitigate the effects of the hot and humid climate using [[reinforced concrete]], the first building in India to use this technique, recognized as "The first modernist building in India".<ref name="Metropolis">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.metropolismag.com/architecture/golconde-the-first-modernist-building-in-india/|title=Golconde: The First Modernist Building in India|last=Sharma|first=Komal|magazine=Metropolis Magazine|date=14 February 2017|access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref><br />
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Raymond first came to Japan in 1919 to work as project architect for [[Frank Lloyd Wright]]'s [[Imperial Hotel, Tokyo|Imperial Hotel]] in Tokyo. [[George Nakashima]] worked for Raymond to conduct site visits in Japan, and was later assigned to supervise the Golconde project, along with Czech architect Francois Sammer.<ref name="Golconde book">{{cite book|title=Golconde: The Introduction of Modernism in India|publisher=Urban Crayon Press|year=2010}}</ref><br />
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