Lahiri, Nayanjot."Indian Metal and Metal-Related Artefacts as Cultural...
Archaeometallurgical perspectives on ancient Indian metal technology generally depend on an evolutionary paradigm, within which artefacts and raw materials are viewed from a unifunctional perspective....
View ArticleFarooqui, Amar."How the City Devours Its Children."Economic and Political...
In addition to the distorted land use pattern, Delhi has experienced the abdication by its government of its responsibility to primary education and public transport. Children, especially belonging to...
View ArticleSupplemental Documents In Letters in support of an appeal to save the Hall of...
Concerning Pragati Maidan.Several independent campaigns are being carried out online and in courts of law by preservationists, professionals, activists and the architects themselves, who may have a...
View ArticleTender no. NC-6 / 2013-14: "Selection of Master Architect for Master Planning...
Tender no. Name of Tender/Pre-qualification TenderCommissioning Authority/AreaSize of Tender (Amount in Rs.)Last Date of Receipt (Time+Date)of Tender DocumentDate of Technicalbid Opening...
View ArticleHolt, Amy-Ruth."A Secular Tamil Saint? Karunanidhi’s Use of Divine Imagery in...
This article explores the near-divine persona of the past DMK chief minister, M. Karunanidhi, resulting from the imagery of his political monuments as well as his image debates with the current AIADMK...
View ArticleOLIVER, PAUL."REBIRTH OF A RAJPUT VILLAGE."Traditional Dwellings and...
Housing the homeless after disasters frequently demonstrates external and state architectural intervention in a vernacular tradition. Often, as in Gediz, Turkey, this results in culturally...
View ArticlePrakāsh, Vikramāditya."Between Objectivity and Illusion: Architectural...
In this paper, I compare the use of photography by Sawai Ram Singh, the maharaja of the Princely State of Jaipur in colonial India, and by James Fergusson, the earliest historiographer of Indian...
View ArticleHome, R. K.."Town planning and garden cities in the British colonial empire...
Although most countries in the Commonwealth derive their town planning systems from British practice and legislation, the process of transfer has received relatively little attention. Based mainly upon...
View ArticleRao, Nirmala."PROJECTIONS OF EMPIRE: INDIA AND THE IMAGINED METROPOLIS."Asian...
This article describes how the British first tried to come to terms with India and to rationalise their role by postulating that Indians were at a different stage of the development trajectory. It then...
View ArticleMudenagudi, Uma, Syed Altaf Ganihar, Shreyas Joshi, Shankar Setty, G. Rahul,...
In this paper we discuss the framework for a realistic walkthrough of cultural heritage sites. The framework includes 3D data acquisition, different data processing steps, coarse to fine 3D...
View ArticleWindover, Michael."Exchanging Looks: 'Art Dekho' Movie Theatres in...
[excerpt] This article begins by considering the uniquely powerful experience of visuality in India and how this underscores any reading of Art Deco in Bombay. Next, the essay explores the sites of two...
View ArticleRao, Nikhil.House, but No Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay's Suburbs,...
Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city's fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive...
View ArticleRao-Cavale, Karthik."Patrick Geddes in India: Anti-colonial nationalism and...
This article presses the case for planning theory to recognize the historicity of historical time, i.e. the argument that ideas about how the past, present, and future relate to each other are specific...
View ArticleRajangam, Krupa."Best laid plans: Research design and the field in a study of...
The article engages with debates on the contemporary practice of ‘traditional’ regional Indian crafts and the disciplinary position of craft at a time when the roles traditionally assigned to academia,...
View ArticleRewal, Raj."Tradition And Innovation." In New Architecture and Urbanism:...
At the outset, one must credit The Nabha Foundation for the initiatives in the historic city of Nabha in Punjab and the Nabha Fort. It is always interesting to return to the roots and learn lessons...
View ArticleLing, Lee Renee Foon, and Renee LEE."The First Colombo Plan Scholar in Art...
Loh Khee Yew, the Colombo Plan Scholar of 1966, discusses with Renee Lee the development of design education as the precursor to create a design industry. This essay traces Loh's pioneering work...
View ArticleGoodfriend, Douglas."Nagar Yoga: The Culturally Informed Town Planning of...
THIS ESSAY IS a historical report on the Indian town planning studies of Sir Patrick Geddes. Geddes was a professor of botany at University College, Dundee in Scotland, but he is perhaps better known...
View ArticleHill, Douglas, and Adrian Athique."Multiplexes, corporatised leisure and the...
While earlier cinemas were built in response to growing urban populations during the twentieth century, the first wave of multiplexes in India were built in anticipation of future wealth. In recent...
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