Non-place, dispossession, and the 2010 commonwealth games: An urban...
French anthropologist Marc Augé's concept of the ‘non-place’ is a useful tool for critiquing the excesses of modernity and capitalism, such as the destruction of small, egalitarian communities, and the...
View ArticlePlate 58. Daryá Khan's Tomb.
This tomb was erected in A.D. 1453, during his lifetime, by Daryá Khan, a talented but abandoned nobleman, who afterwards became a Wuzeer of Mahmood Begurra. It is remarkable for its immense size, the...
View ArticleUrban Growth and Municipal Development in the Colonial City of Madras, 1860-1900
Madras City, founded in the mid-seventeenth century, was the earliest colonial port city established by the British in India. Like the other port cities of Asia which were the creation of European...
View ArticleOf and For the Context: Achyut Kanvinde's Modern Indian Architecture
Architectural history of post-independent India published from 1980 onwards traces the triumph of the modernist project as it achieves an appropriate self-conscious regionalist expression. The rhetoric...
View ArticleBuilding the Non-Aligned Babel: Babylon Hotel in Baghdad and Mobile Design in...
Rising from the banks of the Tigris like a modern-day ziggurat, Babylon Hotel in Baghdad establishes a direct transhistorical link between Iraq’s ancient past and its modern identity. Its history,...
View ArticleEncountering materials in architectural production: the case of Kahn and...
The architectural discourse on materials frequently engages the legendary dialogue between architect Louis Kahn and the brick that wanted to be an arch to alert us to the role played by materials in...
View ArticleHijjas Kasturi and Harry Seidler in Malaysia: Australian-Asian Exchange and...
In 1980, months after his unsuccessful competition entries for the Australian Parliament House and the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank headquarters, Harry Seidler entered into collaboration with Malaysian...
View ArticleShrines and Satellites: Doshi's Aranya District, India
The word ‘aranya’, which means ‘forest’ in Hindi, is an apt name for the incremental mixed-income housing project in Indore designed by Balkrishna Doshi. It reveals the architect’s intention that the...
View ArticleWhose city is it anyway? Middle class imagination and urban restructuring in...
This article provides an overview of the way in which post-liberalization urban restructuring is determined by middle class imaginations and lifestyles in Kolkata, India. It charts how the conjunction...
View ArticleA new approach to tracking connections between the Indus Valley and...
Exchange and interaction between early state-level societies in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley during the 3rd millennium BC has been documented for some time. The study of this interaction has been...
View ArticleAdditional data on trauma at Harappa
I report unpublished details of trauma in adult skeletons excavated in 1987 and 1988 from Cemetery R37 at Harappa, Pakistan, the type-site of the Indus Valley Civilization. Lesions were observed in 6...
View ArticleMarg Magazine: A Tryst with Architectural Modernity - Modern architecture as...
Founded in 1946 on the eve of independence, Marg was the first Indian magazine to address modern architecture and town planning. As well as surveying classical and contemporary Indian art,...
View ArticleConstructing a Shared Vision: Otto Koenigsberger and Tata & Sons
Although Otto Koenigsberger (1908-1999) began working in India eight years before the country won independence, he was not part of the British Raj’s colonial enterprise. As Government Architect of the...
View ArticleLouis Kahn in Ahmedabad and Dhaka
Louis Kahn’s office began work on the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India, and the National Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1962. Rather than the work of a single architect, or even of...
View ArticleAn architectural link between masala dosas and war: The unlikely potentials...
[excerpt] In my experience, the process of conducting architectural historical research is not smooth. It cannot be accurately planned in advanced, or broken down into a precise schedule of hours to be...
View ArticleConfronting built heritage: Shifting perspectives on colonial architecture in...
From the 1990s to the present, newspapers in Indonesia, notably Sunday editions, have regularly featured articles appreciative of Indonesia’s colonial built heritage. Often the work of relatively young...
View ArticleThe Corporatisation of Global Anglicanism: Architecture, Organisation, and...
This article explores the corporate nature of missionary Anglicanism and its architectural consequences in Britain’s empire during the 19th century. It is argued that in highlighting the incorporated...
View ArticleKnowledge networks and postcolonial careering: David Oakley (1927-2003)
Though largely forgotten now, David Oakley (1927–2003) was a prominent player in his time within the milieu of British architects and planners that operated as “global experts” during the post-war era....
View ArticlePlates 60 to 62. Butwa.
Boorhán-ud-deen Kootub-ool-Alum was descended from the Syuds of Bokhára, and grandson of a famous saint who is buried at Ooch, on the Sutlej. He was attracted to the court of Ahmed Shah, and settled at...
View ArticlePunished by Surveillance: Policing ‘dangerousness’ in colonial India, 1872–1918
This article examines the way in which legal codification, the scrutiny of the high courts, and the expansion of the ‘native Bar’ restructured colonial ‘preventive policing’. Habitual Offender...
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