le Roux, Hannah."The networks of tropical architecture."The Journal of...
The concept of tropical architecture is one that was constructed in the 1950s to link the work of modernist practitioners in a number of locations outside the West. Tropical architecture has been...
View ArticlePadgett, Deborah K., and Prachi Priyam."Pavement Dwelling in Delhi, India: An...
This article examines survival among homeless persons (“pavement dwellers”) in Delhi, India. In particular, we explore the role of formal and informal relationships in meeting the demands of daily...
View ArticleKamal, Mohammad Arif."Climatic Responsiveness In Traditional Built Form Of...
Today we live in an energy intensive built environment with the hope for a better quality of life. Architecture developed in this industrial age is highly dependant on mechanical controls resulting in...
View ArticleSinha, Amita."Cultural Landscape of Pavagadh: The Abode of Mother Goddess...
A study of topographic symbolism of pilgrim landscapes offers an insight into aspects of the mother goddess' divinity. Pavagadh Hill in Gujarat, India is the abode of Kalika Mata and also the location...
View ArticleBranfoot, Crispin."Tirumala Nayaka's "New Hall" and the European Study of the...
The Pudu Mandapa or "New Hall" (Tamil Putu Mantapam) is one of the best-known monuments from the Nayaka period of Tarmlnadu in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was built around 1630...
View ArticleBadrinarayanan, S."Development Of Indian Traditions: Constructivist Approach...
Before we embark on the rather ambitious task of addressing the issue of tradition and culture in architectural education in India, it would be pertinent to clarify one's stand on the issue. The most...
View ArticleSinha, Amita, and Ana Valderrama."The oracle landscape of Orchha, India:...
The historic landscape of Orchha in Central India, once the capital of the Bundela Rajputs from 1531 to 1783 CE, was read as an oracle promising well-being and affording protection. Site readings and...
View ArticleShaw, Julia."Monasteries, Monasticism, and Patronage in Ancient India:...
This paper presents data from a recently documented hilltop Buddhist complex called Mawasa, in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, central India, about 15 km to the east of the UNESCO World Heritage...
View ArticleKeune, Jon M.."Emphatically Ignoring the Neighbours: the Selective Geographic...
This article explores the development of a sacred landscape in the major Marathi bhakti tradition, whose poetry and hagiographical stories reveal a strong consciousness of bhakti in North India while...
View ArticleWalcott, Susan M.."Mapping from a Different Direction: Mandala as Sacred...
Spatial visualization serves as a key cartographic device for relaying representative information about that part of space portrayed, creating an ordered presentation of patterns that instruct the...
View ArticleUmashankar, Rachana Rao."Metropolitan Microcosms: The Dynamic Spaces of...
This paper examines the sacred space of Sufi shrines in India as dynamic sites for multifarious dialogues and relationships. By looking at the various religious, spiritual, political, and...
View ArticleSanyal, Saptarishi."Contemporary Relevance Of Traditional Principles In...
Today, there is a definite lack of satisfaction with human habitats, which is what makes one evaluate these with respect to the traditional environments that they have replaced or are in the process of...
View ArticleSingh, Upinder."Exile and Return: The Reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist...
The objective of this paper is to highlight the processes that have led to the reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist sites in modern India. A major aspect of this reinvention is the conversion of...
View ArticleRao, Nikhil."Community, Urban Citizenship and Housing in Bombay, ca....
From the late 1910s onward, co-operative housing societies in cities like Bombay offered affordable housing by using the agency of community to protect against the vicissitudes of the market. At the...
View ArticleJain, A.K.."Interface Between Traditional Urbanism And Legislative...
India as a repository of traditional urbanism is unique. The variety of its built environment – settlements, villages, heritage structures, artifacts, streets, parks, water bodies and precincts of...
View ArticleMeister, Michael W.."Measurement and Proportion in Hindu Temple...
Proportion and measure interacted in the evolution and construction of the Hindu temple from the 5th through the 15th century AD, but, throughout this history, proportion dominated as the tool to give...
View ArticleSachdeva, Pradeep."Place Making In India Some Streets In A Small Town, A...
These examples of completed and ongoing urban projects depict the process of Place-Making from conceptualization to completion. These projects in the urban realm examine the synergies between our...
View ArticleDaswatte, Channa."The Architecture of Hotels: The Legacy of Geoffrey...
The architecture of the modern Asian Hotel is now taken for granted. But this was not always the case. The earliest hotels built for organized tourism was mostly built in the tropical modern style...
View ArticleOlivieri, Luca M.."‘Frontier Archaeology’: Sir Aurel Stein, Swat, and the...
In the years 2008–10, during the cataloguing of some pre-Partition documents in the provincial archives of Pakistan, a corpus of unpublished documents referring to archaeological matters came to the...
View ArticleRaman, Madhav, Vaibhav Dimri, and Siddhartha Chatterjee.Competition Entry for...
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