Lilavati Lalbhai Library. Critique
Of differences and similarities.Mehta, Jaimini.Lilavati Lalbhai Library. Critique. Vadodara, 2015. CEPT University; Contemporary Trends in Indian Architecture; Design Aesthetics; Indian Starchitects;...
View ArticleMaking a Campus for Creative Learning: An Exhibition of Prof....
Making a Campus for Creative Learning: An Exhibition of Prof. B.V.Doshi's Architectural Studies, Drawings and Models of CEPT Campus, 1962-2012. Ahmedabad: Students' Council, Faculty of Architecture,...
View ArticleFuture Expansions at Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus
Doshi, Balkrishna.Future Expansions at Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus. Ahmedabad: Vāstu Shilpā Consultants, 2014. Amdavad ni Gufa; CEPT University; Contemporary Trends in Indian Architecture; Kanoria Centre...
View ArticleStudy Model towards a design proposal for Premabhai Hall
In 1957, Kenzo Tange visited Ahmedabad especially to see Corbusier’s buildings accompanied by Professor Yoshikatsu Tsuboi, a structural engineer. During the visit, Tange talked about his collaboration...
View ArticleArchitecture and Attitudes
In the Bhadra area of Ahmedabad, we designed the Premabhai Hall. This is the area where the city of Ahmedabad started growing first. Located on the bank of the river, this area included the Azam Khan...
View ArticleDesign Proposal for India Tower, Mumbai
Koolhaas, Rem.Design Proposal for India Tower, Mumbai. Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), 2008. High-Rise Buildings; Mumbai; Residential Building
View ArticleCurtain details at Premabhai Hall, study sketches for the aluminium sliding...
... considerations while designing the project were the functions, which were many. However, we had to explore how the quality of the building could be changed to look light and articulated enough...
View ArticleSri Ram Centre for Art and Culture
Chandigarh created a spine of architecturally conscious communities from Delhi down to Ahmedabad, Baroda and Bombay. This project, a centre for dance, drama and music, is a bold statement of urban...
View ArticleThe Ayodhya dispute: The absent mosque, state of emergency and the jural deity
The Ayodhya dispute is located neither solely within the institutions of the nation state, nor within networks of religious associations, but at the crossroads of secular and religious culture in...
View Article'Goods, Chattels and Sundry Items': Constructing 19th-Century...
One of the most common assumptions regarding the culture of British colonialism in India is that the Victorian ideal of separate spheres for men and women found an exaggerated expression in the...
View ArticleOrnament Styles of the Indus Valley Tradition : Evidence from Recent...
Recent excavations at Harappa and Mehrgarh, as well as other sites in Pakistan and India have provided new opportunities to study the ornaments of the Indus Civilization. A brief discussion of the...
View ArticleLe Cimetière néolithique de Mehrgarh (Balouchistan pakistanais) : apport de...
The funerary practices implied by the graves of Mehrgarh Period IB show the presence of a society in Pakistani Baluchistan that was already well-organized by about 6000 ВС. Statistical (factor)...
View ArticleStabilité et évolution des pratiques funéraires néolithiques à Mehrgarh...
The rules that regulated the funerary practices of Mehrgarh at about 6000 B.C. seem to result both from a heritage of continuing prescription and from innovation with respect to the funerary rules that...
View ArticleLes Parures en pierre de Mundigak, Afghanistan
Among the slone ornaments discovered at Mundigak and kept at the Musée Guimet, fragments of unfinished pieces, unworked and worked raw material as well as waste, suggest a local production,...
View ArticlePaléodémographie et archéologie funéraire : les cimetières de Mehrgarh, Pakistan
Paleodemographie analyses of the two largest funerary areas of Mehrgarh (Baluchistan, Pakistan) are presented with a view relevant to an archaeological perspective. As a matter of fact, if our methods...
View ArticleShell working Industries of the Indus Civilization : A summary
The production and use of marine shell objects during the Mature Indus Civilization (2500-1700 B.C.) is used as a framework within which to analyse developments in technology, regional variation and...
View ArticleSkeletal Variation among Mesolithic People of the Ganga Plains: New Evidence...
Rethinking new perspectives in South Asian archaeology necessitates wider appreciation for insights derived from the bioarchaeological analysis of prehistoric human skeletons. Since the 1970s,...
View ArticleChitradurga: Spatial Patterns of a Nayaka Period Successor State in South India
South Indian historical accounts, inscriptions, and literature describe many attempts at state formation and political independence by local elites between the collapse of Vijayanagara control of its...
View ArticleContext, Content, and Composition: Questions of Intended Meaning and the...
The Asokan edicts are a familiar and common form of archaeological and textual evidence frequently cited in discussions of the Mauryan polity. This paper is an attempt to move toward a more nuanced...
View ArticleUrban Class and Communal Consciousness in Colonial Punjab: The Genesis of...
A cornerstone of Wallerstein's (1974) theory of the capitalist world system is that economic development occurs in certain (core) regions of the world system at the expense of development in other...
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