Mathew Ghosh, Nisha, and Soumitro Ghosh. Architects' Statement: 'Unique...
From the outset, the initial proposition had been intriguing, not merely considering the status of the client as an Indian Fiction Author, but rather a result of the seductive challenge to design for a...
View ArticleDalvi, Mustansir. The Past as Present: Pedagogical Practices in Architecture...
From the last decade of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, architectural pedagogy in the School of Art, Bombay was dominated by documentation, decoration and design. Architects in the city in...
View ArticleDalvi, Mustansir. "Mumbai Two Decades After: Landscapes of Exclusion,...
Twenty years after the communal riots of 1992 and the serial bomb blasts of 1993, Mumbai finds itself demographically changed. Muslim families are being forced to move to distant suburbs. The "outside"...
View ArticleBaweja, Vandana. The Missing Modernist Histories of Otto Koenigsberger’s...
Otto H. Koenigsberger (1908–99) a German émigré architect, arrived in India in 1939 in princely Mysore in South India—a state under indirect British rule then governed by Maharajah Krishnaraja Wodeyar...
View ArticleBaweja, Vandana. A Pre-history of Green Architecture: Otto Koenigsberger and...
In this dissertation, I investigate how transcolonial histories of architecture intersect with transnational environmental histories of architecture. I locate Tropical Architecture, which I define as...
View ArticleBaweja, Vandana. "Otto Koenigsberger’s Architectural Photographic Archive in...
Otto H. Koenigsberger (1908–1999), a German émigré architect who worked as the state architect in princely Mysore in British India in the 1940s, left a rich collection of photographs of his...
View ArticleCowell, Christopher. "The Kacchā-Pakkā Divide: Material, Space and...
This article will trace the historical passage of two fundamental Indian terms used in building: kacchā (inferior, flimsy, impermanent) and pakkā (superior, solid, durable), and how they became...
View ArticleBaweja, Vandana. "Beyond Alternative Modernities." ABE Journal, no. 9-10 (2016).
[excerpt] Gwendolyn Wright’s work first demonstrated how the colonies and the metropole were intertwined in the shaping of paradigms of modernist architecture and urbanism through her analysis of...
View ArticleLee, Rachel. "From Static Master Plans to ‘Elastic Planning’ and...
Otto Koenigsberger (1908-1999) is best known for his pioneering work in the fields of tropical architecture and development planning, which he conducted from his base at the Architectural Association...
View ArticleDADLANI, CHANCHAL. "Monumental Re-visions: Mughal Self-Representation in the...
This paper examines the impact of the introduction of architectural representation into the visual discourse of official Mughal illustrated histories. In 1815, the Mughal emperor Akbar II (r....
View ArticleGrigor, Talinn. "Civilization Lost and Found: Bombay Parsi (re)Vision of...
In April 1854, when Bombay Parsi Manekji Limji Hataria landed on the Persian Gulf, contact between the Parsis of India and their coreligious Zoroastrians in Iran had been sporadic since the fall of the...
View ArticleShah, Alison M.. "The City as a Landscape of Monuments: Re-visions of...
The last Nizam of Hyderabad (r. 1911-1948), Mir Osman Ali Khan was called the architect of modern Hyderabad. Indeed, many buildings were constructed during his reign, but he, personally, was neither...
View ArticleShah, Alison M.. "Imperial Re-visions: Architecture and Imagined Communities...
Many of the categories through which we study South Asia's architecture and the built environment took shape as part of Britain's "imperial vision." (T. Metcalf, 1989) Through the isolation of...
View ArticleShah, Kirtee. Re: Letter from an architect to the gurus and chelas of...
A reply to Shirish Beri's Open Letter dated 25th July 2019, "Can Architecture of Goodness be Taught?" by Architect Sudipto Ghosh.
View ArticleTHAKUR, ANIL SINGH. "Appropriating the Public Realm: Overlapping Placemaking...
The paper characterises the persisting interplay between two worlds: the heroic of modern planners; and the prosaic of the poor city practitioners that revolves around their everyday life. It is about...
View ArticleChida-Razvi, Mehreen. "Resituating Mughal Architecture in the Persianate...
This Editorial Essay introduces the importance and need for the research collected in this Special Issue. Beginning with a definition of ‘Persianate’, the space that the Mughals occupied within this...
View ArticleO’Kane, Bernard. "Mughal Tilework: Derivative or Original?" South Asian...
Although concentrating on Mughal tilework, this paper also discusses its predecessors elsewhere in the Islamic world, particularly in Iran, Central Asia, and Sultanate India. A brief survey of the...
View ArticleWescoat, James L.. "‘In the Centre of the Map…’: Reflecting on Marshall...
To resituate early Mughal architecture within a Persianate context, this paper considers the three axes of geography, scale, and meaning. After introducing this conceptual framework, we turn to...
View ArticleKavuri-Bauer, Santhi. "The Impact of Akhlaq-i Nasiri on the Forms and Spaces...
In this article, I examine the structures and spatial dynamics of Fatehpur Sikri to show how the overall design of the Mughal capital city was informed by Islamic philosophy and ethical texts known as...
View ArticleEmami, Farshid. "Royal Assemblies and Imperial Libraries: Polygonal Pavilions...
This article examines the architectural form and potential functions of two royal buildings: the Sher Mandal and the Guldasta pavilion. An octagonal tower located in the Purana Qilʿa in Delhi, the Sher...
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