Parallel Structures of Decentralisation in the Mega City Context of Urban...
This paper attempts to understand how decentralisation unfolds in the mega city context of urban India as a result of shifts in policy and practice since the 1990s through a study of recent civil...
View ArticleApplication of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory to Teaching Architectural...
Design studios of architectural schools in India conventionally use the ‘design project’ as the primary vehicle of learning. The theoretical basis of this is ‘Problem-Based-Learning’ (PBL), which...
View ArticleTowards Total Integration in Design Studio
Transmission of knowledge has been defined as “bringing the right knowledge by the right route at the right time to the right places.” In this context there is need to analyze the various pedagogical...
View ArticleACOMPARISON OF TRADITIONAL SETTLEMENTS IN NEPAL AND BALI
THE PROCESSES OF COLONIZATION AND MODERNIZATION HAVE CHANGED THE FORMS OF TRADI tional settlements in much of South and Southeast Asia. Fortunately, a few places remain where patterns of living and...
View ArticleRELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF...
This is a study of the interrelationships between religious traditions and domestic vernacular architecture. Through a comparative study of two religious groups — the Zoroastrians and the Muslims — in...
View ArticleRetrieving the Chalukyan Past: The Politics of Architectural Reuse in the...
Wagoner, Phillip B.."Retrieving the Chalukyan Past: The Politics of Architectural Reuse in the Sixteenth-Century Deccan."South Asian Studies 23, no. 1 (2007): 1-29.
View Article"Sultan among Hindu Kings": Dress, Titles, and the Islamicization...
Phillip B. Wagoner challenges the enduring stereotype of the Vijayanagara empire of early modern South India as "a Hindu state" that preserved itself in the face of a growing Islamic presence in the...
View ArticleThe Shrine in Early Hinduism: The Changing Sacred Landscape
Archaeological data forms the primary source material for this paper on the early Hindu temple in South Asia. The paper traces the study of the temple from its ‘discovery’ in the nineteenth century to...
View ArticleThe Dīptāgama and Installation Ceremonies
The Dīptāgama Project aims to produce the critical edition of the Dīptāgama an unpublished Sanskrit treatise belonging to the Southindian Śaivasiddhānta tradition. The project is a joint venture of...
View ArticleIndian Institute of Architects vs Council of Architecture on 21 June, 2011
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View ArticleRajan Lakule vs The Council of Architecture on 18 October, 2008
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION No. 971 OF 2008 Rajan Lakule, Age 45, Principal, Sir, J. J. College of Architecture, 78/3, Dr. D. N. Road,...
View ArticleBalbir Verma and Ors. vs Council of Architecture and Ors. on 26 May, 2010
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View ArticleKedarnath disaster 2013: causes and consequences using remote sensing inputs
Kedarnath was devastated on 16th evening–17th morning (June 2013) due to landslides and flash floods that killed more than 5000 people in Uttarakhand. What really happened on 16th evening through next...
View ArticleBuilding Citizenship: The Agency of Public Buildings and Urban Planning in...
Julia A. B. Hegewald explores the significant role played by visual elements in the making of citizenship. By focusing on the two sites of New Delhi and Chandigarh, the chapter examines these issues...
View ArticleThe Co-operative Model Town Society: history, planning, architecture and...
This thesis investigates the Co-operative Model Town Society Lahore; a town covering an area of around 2000 acres developed in the 1920’s in the (then) suburbs of Lahore, capital of Punjab province in...
View ArticleThe Udayeśvara Temple, Udayapur: architecture and iconography of an 11th...
This study is the first to analyse the complex iconographic programme of the temple. Despite first impressions of conformity to the iconography of the time, various unusual iconographic features are...
View ArticleSynthetic vernacular: the coproduction of architecture
The Gujarat earthquake of 2001 caused widespread devastation to livelihoods and the built environment, demolishing or badly damaging in excess of 400,000 buildings in the Kutch region as well as...
View ArticleW.P.(C) 1146/2016 & CM. No.5060/2016 THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS...
IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHIReserved on: 16.02.2016Pronounced on: 24.02.2016+ W.P.(C) 1146/2016 & CM. No.5060/2016 THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AND ORS. .....PetitionersThrough...
View ArticleFrom Harappa to Hastinapura: A Study of the Earliest South Asian City and...
This book redefines the concepts of the city and civilization in the Harappan and Early Historic South Asia, using archaeological data and ancient Indian texts. In contrast to previous studies, it...
View ArticleMedieval Archaeology and Historical Reconstruction: A Case Study of Qut̤b...
History as a discipline studies the actions of the past and tries to understand the formation of future courses of actions in society. Historians study actions as developments in the context of...
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