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Cole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XI. General View of the...

THE History of this remarkable pillar has been the subject of much controversy among English writers, Hindus, and Muhammadans. The Hindus claim to have commenced it, and, according to Syud Ahmed, the...

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Dhond, P.A.."B17: Training of Art Teachers." In Seminar on Art Education,...

At the outset it must be made clear that this paper is restricted to the topic under discussion in the light of the writer’s long experience in training Art Teachers. However, he is aware that there...

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Bannerji, Himani."The Mirror of Class: Class Subjectivity and Politics in...

The political, social and cultural understanding of the Bengali middle classes originating in the terrain of colonial capital was shaped through practices and ideas that came from the bourgeois world...

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Mukerji, Biswanath."B12: Objectives of Professional Education." In Seminar on...

The degree of civilization of a people is determined by the prevailing socio­ economic conditions which include the aesthetic sensibility i.e., the capacity to appreciate everything artistic and...

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Husain, Maqbool Fida, and Balkrishna Doshi.Husain-Doshi Gufa. Ahmedabad.

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Ghosal, S.N.."B15: Content of Professional Education in Art." In Seminar on...

Professional Education in art was started in India on the lines suggested by the architects of education in the British rule, as early as the middle of the last century. More than a hundred years have...

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Amberkar, V.R.."B10: Objectives of Professional Education." In Seminar on Art...

The objectives of professional education in art can be formulated only in rela­tion to the meaning we give to the two words ‘art’ and ‘professional’. The history of Art Education of any country shows...

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Cole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph V. Pillars in the East...

THE most elaborate and effective pillars are in the Colonnade at the east end of the courtyard. They are built up to the same height, but beyond this they have no precise resemblance one to the other....

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"48.—The Rational Planning Corporation—Kotah Stone." In Model houses...

Kotah stone is a high class building material. It is so called because it is found in the old Kotah State (now part of Rajasthan) in a variety of colours. After mining, it is polished and becomes...

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Girish Dariyav Karnawat, Shallon John Crasta, Siddhart Tandur, and Ritu...

These are the study model pictures of an ongoing project on board in Kerala. An attempt was made where in the sketches of various alternatives were directly extruded into physical models.

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Shokoohy, Mehrdad."The town of Cochin and its Muslim heritage on the Malabar...

In South India Cochin is well known for its Jewish settlement, but the rich Muslim heritage of the town has so far remained almost unknown. A reason for this anonymity lies perhaps in that the Muslim...

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"Residence for Prof. Kulkarni."Journal of The Indian Institute of Architects...

Year of completion: 1983 Location of project: Ahmedabad. 250 sq. meter single family two bedroom and guest room house. The construction is of 35 cm thick load bearing walls kept exposed with flush...

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Cole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph VIII. Pillar in the...

THIS pillar, which is the central object of the foreground in this photograph, is, in spite of its conglomerate construction, beautiful and little damaged. Of the many pillars composing the Colonnade,...

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Rahman, Habib.Pulbolok. New Delhi, 1963.

First used in the Curzon Road Hostels in Delhi in 1967, the pullblock is a single unit, easy to manufacture, cheap, combine of lockable bolt and door handle which could be fitted left or right and on...

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Stallmeyer, John Charles.Architecture and Urban Form in India's Silicon...

The research employed archival data, field documentation of ICT facility locations and architecture, and interviews with key actors in four case study areas of the city to explore these questions....

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Ellis, Rowan."“A World Class City of Your Own!”: Civic Governmentality in...

This paper utilizes a critical governmentality approach to theorize the processes through which urban elites become stakeholders in the “world-class city”. Through a case study of public consultations...

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Sajyidain, K.G.."B6: Art in Social Education." In Seminar on Art Education,...

Social Education is both a very old and a very new concept in India. In various traditional forms, Social Education has been an integral part of our cultural stream throughout the centuries but in its...

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Khastgir, Sudhir."B4: Art in the Education of the Adolescent." In Seminar on...

Teaching of art to the adolescent must be done with tact. They should neither be treated as children, nor as adults. They require a very careful and subtle handling. They cannot be left totally to...

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Cole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XIV. First Gallery of the...

THE view was taken from the root' of Ala-ucl-din's gateway (see on plan), in order to obtain the details of the bracketing which supports the gallery above the first story, about ninety-seven feet...

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Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra."An Early British Government Initiative in the...

While the idea of planning emerged as central to Indian nationalist economic thought only after the election of 1937, economic planning was a known concept to Indian thinkers in early twentieth...

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