Bhatt, Purnima Mehta. Her Space, Her Story: Exploring the Stepwells of...
A fascinating, multi-disciplinary exploration of water, wells and women’s spaces in Gujarat. Centuries ago, in the arid landscape of Gujarat, where water is scarce and rains scanty, stepwells sustained...
View ArticleSinha, Amita, and Neha Rajora. "Gaze and the picturesque landscape of Amber,...
Amber and five other hill forts of Rajasthan were inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in the cultural heritage category in June 2013. Their inscription was based on their outstanding...
View ArticleMajumdar, Boria. "The ‘accidental legacy’ of Commonwealth Games 2010." South...
A year has passed since Delhi hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games and justly there is increased focus on the legacy aspect of the mega spectacle. With the lead up mired in controversy because of issues...
View ArticleSen, Arijit. "Architecture and world making: production of sacred space in...
This article provides two ‘readings’ of the Vedanta temple of San Francisco to understand the complex process of world making by Hindu religious preachers in the USA during the first decade of the...
View ArticleChalana, Manish, and Tyler S. Sprague. "Beyond Le Corbusier and the modernist...
The heritage of Chandigarh, India is a complex subject. While widely acknowledged by academic and professional communities worldwide as a significant work of modernist architecture and urban design,...
View ArticleJackson, Iain. "Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew's early housing and neighbourhood...
The city of Chandigarh, India, has received considerable interest since its design and construction in the early 1950s, mainly due to Le Corbusier's involvement in the scheme. More recent work has...
View ArticleRoy, Ananya. "Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning." Journal...
Many of the significant urban transformations of the new century are taking place in the developing world. In particular, informality, once associated with poor squatter settlements, is now seen as a...
View ArticleBusby, Selina. "Finding a concrete utopia in the dystopia of a ‘sub-city’."...
This article examines a 10-year long series of annual short-term interventions with young people living in Dharavi (India) that has led to a number of public theatre events. The partnership offers a...
View ArticleHegewald, Julia A. B.. "Building Citizenship: The Agency of Public Buildings...
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 ArticleTayyibji, Riyaz. "Stepwells of Ahmedabad: A conversation on water and...
The exhibition was a collaborative effort of a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, young graduates, students and concerned citizens who documented sixteen structures, among more, that are...
View ArticleHegewald, Julia A. B.. Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types,...
Water architecture in South Asia represents some of the most beautiful and spectacular building achievements of the region. This study provides a holistic approach to the subject, suggesting common...
View ArticleAnand, Prashant, Chirag Deb, and Ramachandraiah Alur. "A simplified tool for...
Thermal comfort aspects of indoor spaces are crucial during the design stages of building layout planning. This study presents a simplified tool based on thermal comfort using predicted mean vote (PMV)...
View ArticleJain-Neubauer, Jutta. The stepwells of Gujarat: In art-historical...
A thorough monograph of the characteristic features, history, evolution, typology, style and iconography of the stepwells of Gujarat, a unique form of underground water architecture that survives in...
View ArticleBaweja, Vandana. "Otto Koenigsberger and Modernist Historiography."...
Otto Koenigsberger’s (1908–1999) work in India (1939–1951) complicates the idea that tropical architecture was a strain of European modernism that was dispersed to the colonial tropics along the...
View ArticleHegewald, Julia A. B.. "The Lotus Pool: Buddhist Water Sanctuaries in the...
The importance of water architecture in South Asia has been widely underrated in art-historical writing. Tanks and wells have been seen as primarily utilitarian structures, plain and lacking any...
View ArticleRoy, Anjali Gera. "The remembered railway town of Anglo-Indian memory." South...
Unlike those who grew up in railway towns, the majority of Indians would have a hard time locating towns with quaint names on the Indian map that signified adventure, romance and the Raj. Kharagpur is...
View ArticleJazeel, Tariq. "Tropical Modernism/Environmental Nationalism: The Politics of...
This paper explores the relationships between Sri Lanka’s tropical architecture, its negotiation of the Sri Lankan environment, and the post-colony’s contested politics of nationhood. By focussing on...
View ArticleCuddy, Brendan, and Tony Mansell. "Engineers for India: The Royal Indian...
Correlli Barnett has compared the India of the British Empire to a 'colossal mansion standing in the middle of a vast but ill cultivated estate: it conferred prestige, it made the owners feel grand,...
View ArticleRajarajan, R.K.K.. "Pañcapretāsanāsīnī-Sadāśivī." South Asian Studies 13, no....
In March 1996 the Department of Sculpture, Tamil University of Thanjavur, conducted a regional seminar on the subject, 'Gopuras in South Indian Art: Structural Alignment and Iconographic Programme.'...
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