Contemporary House India
Title | Contemporary House India PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Gregory |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021-11-16 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0500021333 |
A stunning overview of innovative, ambitious, and beautiful houses on the Indian subcontinent. India has a long, diverse history of remarkable architecture. This stunning overview of contemporary residential architecture in India features over twenty houses from across the country, designed by leading firms such as Samira Rathod Design Associates and Architecture Brio, as well as emerging architects such as Martand Khosla. Beginning with a helpful essay, Contemporary House India is divided into four thematic chapters, each opening with a contextual introduction. Included with each featured home are detailed drawings and plans, specially commissioned photographs of the interiors and exteriors by leading architectural photographer Edmund Sumner, and accompanying text based on interviews with the architects by author Rob Gregory. Gregory places the selected homes in a global context, including the fascinating legacy of major modern architects such as Le Corbusier’s work in Chandigarh, India.
Contemporary Indian Houses
Title | Contemporary Indian Houses PDF eBook |
Author | Sarbjit Bahga |
Publisher | Sarbjit Singh Bahga |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2014-12-17 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Contemporary Indian Houses discusses fifty-one architect-designed built-up houses selected from different parts of India. They display the diversity of needs, tastes and building materials in the context of different weather conditions and social trends. Different architectural appearances or external expressions have determined the classification of the houses into five sections. This grouping keeps the reader’s growing interest in the external aspect of a residential structure. The emphasis is on the built-form rather than on the interior and its decor. Each house is accompanied by an explanatory text and supplemented by appropriate drawings and photographs to present a comprehensive picture of India's many-splendoured domestic architecture. Contemporary Indian Houses is a well illustrated document of changing trends in architectural tune. It is not only a reflection of contemporary Indian architecture but also source of reference material for architecture historians. Moreover, it fulfills the needs of architects and other professionals engaged in house construction activity along with those general readers who wish to keep themselves informed of what is happening in the field of creative design.
India Contemporary
Title | India Contemporary PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Wilson |
Publisher | Thames and Hudson |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2007-08-28 |
Genre | Architecture |
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A detailed presentation of 27 private homes of those at the forefront of the Indian new wave of decoration and design.
Contemporary Houses
Title | Contemporary Houses PDF eBook |
Author | Malvika Mehta |
Publisher | |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788193175637 |
Women Architects and Modernism in India
Title | Women Architects and Modernism in India PDF eBook |
Author | Madhavi Desai |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 750 |
Release | 2016-10-14 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1315454637 |
Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the narrative of mainstream architectural history within the challenge of non-existent archives, it sheds light on seven pioneering women who broke male bastions to go beyond the traditional confines of the era from the 1940s onwards. The author also examines 28 contemporary practices to demonstrate the ways in which architectural modernism in India was shaped by the contribution of women. The book uses a format that weaves together social, professional and biographical factors into a productive account; pluralizes various concepts of design; and redefines the idea of ‘work’ of women through a greater range of activities, including pedagogy, mentoring and activism. Alluding to challenges faced by women, the study celebrates practices in diverse regional settings even as the designers move in transnational contexts in an increasingly globalizing India. Extensively illustrated, featuring drawings and photographs, this book will be a milestone in the modernist narrative of South Asia and will be of interest to scholars and researchers of architecture, gender studies, modern Indian history and sociology.
India
Title | India PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Scriver |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2015-02-15 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1780234686 |
A place of astonishing contrasts, India is home to some of the world’s most ancient architectures as well as some of its most modern. It was the focus of some of the most important works created by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, among other lesser-known masters, and it is regarded by many as one of the key sites of mid-twentieth century architectural design. As Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastava show in this book, however, India’s history of modern architecture began long before the nation’s independence as a modern state in 1947. Going back to the nineteenth century, Scriver and Srivastava look at the beginnings of modernism in colonial India and the ways that public works and patronage fostered new design practices that directly challenged the social order and values invested in the building traditions of the past. They then trace how India’s architecture embodies the dramatic shifts in Indian society and culture during the last century. Making sense of a broad range of sources, from private papers and photographic collections to the extensive records of the Indian Public Works Department, they provide the most rounded account of modern architecture in India that has yet been available.
Homes for Our Time 2
Title | Homes for Our Time 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Jodidio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
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Climate, environment, history, and technology are transforming architecture worldwide. The second volume in the Homes for Our Time series documents this housing revolution. It explores new approaches in building and presents resourceful and green private homes. This is a multilingual edition - English, French, German.