In 1965, The Mother invited the French architect, Roger Anger, to prepare the town plan for Auroville. She worked with him through several trials, several models till she was satisfied that [...]

This updated video recounts how and why Auroville was founded as a city with a city plan and a charter on Feb 28 1968, and their role in Auroville's aim and realization.

In this session we will explore the task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo’s vision as entrusted to the Mother. The Galaxy model was conceptualised for the creation of a new world, a new [...]

Exploring Auroville's Unique Mobility Plan.

Auroville the vision takes shape Given its idealistic vision, Auroville has widely been mistaken as a utopian project. In truth, Auroville was conceived as a laboratory - a living laboratory - [...]

Contrary to all our fears, the Crown was imagined very differently, right from the start, for much of the reasons described in the previous post. It was not to be a thoroughfare with six lanes [...]

Each part of Auroville’s city plan is linked to the other, either through overlapping, interwoven areas, with interdependent facilities and purpose, shared intentions and of course, by its [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]