Kamal, 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 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 ArticleGajjar, Karan, Malay Doshi, Neel Jain, Priyanka Sheth, Riyaz Tayyibji, Tanvi...
This exhibition is a collaborative effort of a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, young graduates, students and concerned citizens to bring to light important aspects of the city of...
View ArticleKien, Lai Chee. "Southeast Asian Spatial Histories and Historiographies: A...
In one of the few bibliographies of Southeast Asian architecture, titled “Nation, Identity and Architecture in Southeast Asia: a select bibliography,” published in the Journal of Southeast Asian...
View ArticleVernon, Christopher. "Exhibition review: Beyond Architecture: Marion Mahony...
In their native America, Walter Burley Griffin (1876–1937) and his architect wife and partner, Marion Lucy Mahony (1871–1961), until recendy were remembered only as proteges of that nation's most...
View ArticleLivingston, Morna, and Ronald Foresta. "Stepwells and the Public Past in...
The stepwells of India illustrate how loss of community purpose leads to the disintegration of the built environment through socially random processes. Hundreds of stepwells, usually large, ornate...
View ArticleTayyibji, Riyaz. "Ancient Stepwells of Ahmedabad: A Conversation On Water And...
INTRODUCTION‘Stepwells of Ahmedabad - a conversation on water and heritage’ is a collaborative effort of a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, young graduates, students and concerned citizens...
View ArticleSinha, Amita, and Rajat Kant. "Mayawati and memorial parks in Lucknow, India:...
In the state elections in Uttar Pradesh, India, held in early 2012, the Election Commissioner ruled that statues of elephants, the symbol of the ruling Bahajun Samaj Party (BSP), and Mayawati, the...
View ArticleThomas, G.. "The First Four Decades of Photography in India." History of...
Within a few years of its discovery, photography reached the shores of far-away India, which was then both commercially and politically a land of great potentialities. Between service forays, officers...
View ArticleLivingston, Morna. "Cisterns in Sanctuaries: Sharing water in a tribal...
In Yemen's mountainous interior rain collects in thousands of cisterns built to follow the hollows in the land. Shaped by underlying rock, each is unique: large tanks water the terraced landscape,...
View ArticleRichardson, Harriet, and Peter Guillery. "Speculative Development and the...
As London grew north and west in the eighteenth century, wealth settled on the new-built streets of the Cavendish-Harley (later Portland, now Howard de Walden) estate. This paper describes how, why and...
View ArticleGordon, Sophie. "A city of mourning: The representation of Lucknow, India in...
This paper reviews the work of two photographers of Lucknow: Ahmad Ali Khan (active 1850S–1862) and Abbas Ali (active late 1860s–c.l880). Both photographers recorded the people and places of the city....
View ArticleConingham, Robin A. E.. "Monks, caves and kings: A reassessment of the nature...
This paper begins by describing the early history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka as recorded in the two Pali chronicles, the Dipavamsa and the Mahavamsa. Their general approach treats the introduction of...
View ArticleDas, Saudamini, Arup Mitra, and Rajnish Kumar. "Do neighbourhood facilities...
Slum dwellers in developing countries reside in inhuman conditions, with little provision of basic facilities and with considerable overlap between sources of drinking water supply, sewerage and the...
View ArticleKuotsu, Neikolie. "Architectures of pirate film cultures: encounters with...
This essay examines the multiple force fields within which South Korean films and teleserials circulate in Northeastern India.1 It looks at the complex imbrications of infrastructure, the political...
View ArticleLivingston, Morna. "A silent contest for the stepwells of Western India." In...
A brahmin invented chess in India in the fifth century to convince his monarch that while a king might be the most important player, no attack or defense of his realm could occur without his subject's...
View ArticleSharma, Brij Bhushan. "Darogha Ubbas Alii: an unknown 19th-century Indian...
When Samuel Bourne, noted 19th-century photographer, arrived in India in 1863 he was surprised to find that 'at Calcutta it is no uncommon thing to see native portrait establishments'1. When the...
View ArticleWillcock, Sean. "Aesthetic Bodies: Posing on Sites of Violence in India,...
This article looks at how aesthetic concerns inflected the dynamic of imperial relations during the 1857 Indian Uprising and its aftermath. The invention of photography inaugurated a period in which...
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