Mudenagudi, 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 Bombay."...
[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...
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 ArticleCroker, Alan. "Temple Architecture in South India." Fabrications 4, no. 1...
South Indian Hindu Temples have been regarded for some time as places of great spiritual power and significance. Since the late 19th century, many scholars have studied these places and their tradition...
View ArticleLiscombe, Rhodri Windsor. "In‐dependence: Otto Koenigsberger and modernist...
This article investigates the universalist problematic in Modern Movement town planning predominantly through the Indian phase of the career of Otto Koenigsberger (1909–99). Educated in Germany during...
View ArticleRaghunathan, Aparna, and Amita Sinha. "Rockfort Temple at Tiruchirapalli,...
Sacred sites in India are subject to many development pressures. Unlike heritage monuments, cultural and historic landscapes have not been the focus of institutional protection and preservation...
View ArticleJohnson, Jay, and Frank Costa. "Hindu Temple Development in the United...
Hindu temple construction has become common in suburban areas of the United States, following a steady wave of immigration from India. Immigrants hope to pass along traditional beliefs and cultural...
View ArticleKassens-Noor, Eva, and Priyamvada Kayal. "India's new globalization strategy...
Developing nations increasingly seek mega-events in the pursuit of globalization. India has recently renewed such aspirations by hosting the XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010. The purpose of the...
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...
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 ArticleIkeuchi, Katsushi, Takeshi Oishi, Jun Takamatsu, Ryusuke Sagawa, Atsushi...
This paper presents an overview of our research project on digital preservation of cultural heritage objects and digital restoration of the original appearance of these objects. As an example of these...
View ArticleBhardwaj, Surinder, and Madhusudana Rao. "The Temple as a Symbol of Hindu...
For overseas Hindu communities, the temple became an important symbol of ethnic regrouping. From the indentured expatriates of sugar colonies of the colonial era through the recent, highly educated,...
View ArticleSheikh, Samira. "A Gujarati Map and Pilot Book of the Indian Ocean, c.1750."...
An unusual eighteenth‐century Gujarati manuscript (St John's College, Oxford, MS 254 (45)) that includes a grid‐line map of Gujarat, sailing directions and a list of Indian Ocean ports throws light on...
View ArticleChatterjee, Partha. "The colonial city in the postcolonial era." Inter-Asia...
The Black Hole of Calcutta was once known throughout the English-speaking world as a dark dungeon in which many European prisoners were suffocated to death by an Indian ruler. A monument was built in...
View ArticleDalvi, Smita, and Mustansir Dalvi. Dismantling Cosmopolitanism:...
This project was completed in April 2006 and submitted to the MMRDA's (Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority) Heritage Conservation Committee. The project set down guidelines for...
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