Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing
Author:   Venugopal Maddipati (School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367199456


Pages:   206
Publication Date:   29 July 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Venugopal Maddipati (School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367199456


ISBN 10:   0367199459
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   29 July 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Introduction. 1. An Architecture of Finitude: Segaon, 1936—1937 2. The Present Endures: A Late-Colonial Gandhian Architecture for a Post-Colonial Age at the Low-cost Housing Exhibition of 1954 3. Urbanizing Finitude: For What Reason Must a Vernacular Architecture Die? Charles Correa, Gandhi, India: circa 1974–2006 4. The House that Necessity Built: Ecology, Economy, Customization and Architecture in the Global South; Wardha: 1978-1998 5. Regionalizing Finitude; ""The Wardha House,"" Language, Identity and Environment in Wagdara: A Kolam Village 6. Afterword. Index."

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Venugopal Maddipati is Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi, India. His research focuses on building as poesis, housing thinking, geological thinking, and ecological aesthetics. His publications include of Water Histories of South Asia: The Materiality of Liquescence (coedited, 2019) and essays in journals and books, such as South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies; Sarai Reader 09; Simon Starling/Superflex: Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests; MARG; and LA, Journal of Landscape Architecture.

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