Made in India
Published on 9. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-470-03476-7 (ISBN)
Description
Made in India
Guest-edited by Kazi K Ashraf
The architectural and urban landscape of India is being remade in unexpected and exuberant ways. New economic growth, the infiltration of global media and technologies, and the transnational reach of the diasporic Indian have unleashed a new cultural and social dynamic. While the dynamic is most explicit and visible in the context of the Indian city, a different set of transformations is taking place in the rural milieu. Yet, as the political writer Sunil Khilnani notes, the world's sense of India, of what it stands for and what it wishes to become, seems as confused and divided today as is India's own sense of itself. It is a challenge, in these conditions, to explore how the deeply entrenched histories and traditions of India are being reimagined, and how questions of the extraordinary diversity of India are being reinterpreted in its architectural and urban landscape. AD traces this compelling story through the writings of Prem Chandavarkar, Sunil Khilnani, Anupama Kundoo, Reinhold Martin, Michael Sorkin, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, and others, as well as through the work of some 25 practices currently producing work on the Indian subcontinent.
Guest-edited by Kazi K Ashraf
The architectural and urban landscape of India is being remade in unexpected and exuberant ways. New economic growth, the infiltration of global media and technologies, and the transnational reach of the diasporic Indian have unleashed a new cultural and social dynamic. While the dynamic is most explicit and visible in the context of the Indian city, a different set of transformations is taking place in the rural milieu. Yet, as the political writer Sunil Khilnani notes, the world's sense of India, of what it stands for and what it wishes to become, seems as confused and divided today as is India's own sense of itself. It is a challenge, in these conditions, to explore how the deeply entrenched histories and traditions of India are being reimagined, and how questions of the extraordinary diversity of India are being reinterpreted in its architectural and urban landscape. AD traces this compelling story through the writings of Prem Chandavarkar, Sunil Khilnani, Anupama Kundoo, Reinhold Martin, Michael Sorkin, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, and others, as well as through the work of some 25 practices currently producing work on the Indian subcontinent.
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Product info
Paperback
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 21 cm
Thickness: 1.2 cm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-03476-7 (9780470034767)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Kazi K Ashraf teaches at the University of Hawaii School of Architecture. He studied at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. He writes on phenomenological issues of architecture and landscape, and contemporary South Asia. He co-edited the publication An Architecture of Independence: The Making of Modern South Asia (Architectural League of New York, 1997), and has curated exhibitions on Modern architecture in South Asia, Louis Kahn's Capital Complex, and architecture in Bangladesh. He is currently working on a new book, The Last Hut: Dwelling in the Ascetic Imagination.
Content
01 Editorial
Helen Castle
02 Introduction
Raga India: Architecture in the Time of Euphoria
Kazi K Ashraf
03 The India Project
Sunil Khilnani
04 Indian Panorama
Chris Lee/Kapil Gupta
TEAM (Snehansu Mukherjee and AR Ramanathan)
Sanjay Puri Architects
Fabian Ostner
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
05 One Space, Many Worlds
Ramesh Biswas
06 The Visceral City and the Theatre of Fear
Ravi Sundaram
07 Mumbai Architects
Studio Mumbai Architects (Bijoy and Priya Jain)
Rahul Mehrotra Associates
Samira Rathod Design Associates
08 Auroville: An Architectural Laboratory
Anupama Kundoo
09 Local Stone (A Fragment)
Reinhold Martin
10 Material Formations
Matharoo Associates (Gurjit Singh Matharoo)
Anupama Kundoo
Vastu Shilpa Consultants (Rajeev Kathpalia)
Architecture Autonomous (Gerard da Cunha)
Urbana
11 In Depth: Inscribing the Indian Landscape
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
12 The 'Background' in Bangalore: Architecture and Critical Resistance in a New Modernity
Prem Chandavarkar
13 A Trip to India
Michael Sorkin
14 Bangalore Architects
Mathew & Ghosh Architects
Hundredhands
Chandavarkar and Thacker
Mindspace (Sanjay Mohe)
InFORM Architects (Kiran Venkatesh)
15 Sharifa's House
Dr Adnan Morshed
16 This is Not a Building! Hand-Making a School in a Bangladeshi Village
Kazi K Ashraf
17 Subcontinental Panorama
Kerry Hill Architects
Piercy Conner Architects & Designers
Shatotto: Architecture for Green Living (Rafiq Azam)
Ann Pendleton-Jullian
Saif Ul Haque Sthapati
Tsunami Design Initiative (TDI)
Madhura Prematilleke (Team Architrave)
AD+
Interior Eye
Boston Institute of Contemporary Art
Jayne Merkel
Building Profile
Casa Kike, Costa Rica
Jeremy Melvin
Practice Profile
DSDHA
Helen Castle
Spiller's Bits
Good-Natured Stuff
Neil Spiller
Yeang's Eco-Files
On Green Design (Part 2)
The Basic Premises for Green Design
Ken Yeang
McLean's Nuggets
Will McLean
Userscape
Sensible Objects for Digital Environments
Valentina Croci
Unit Factor
Forming Climatic Change
Steve Hardy and Werner Gaiser
Site Lines
Gods Are in the Details: The Ambika Temple at Jagat
Adam Hardy
Helen Castle
02 Introduction
Raga India: Architecture in the Time of Euphoria
Kazi K Ashraf
03 The India Project
Sunil Khilnani
04 Indian Panorama
Chris Lee/Kapil Gupta
TEAM (Snehansu Mukherjee and AR Ramanathan)
Sanjay Puri Architects
Fabian Ostner
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
05 One Space, Many Worlds
Ramesh Biswas
06 The Visceral City and the Theatre of Fear
Ravi Sundaram
07 Mumbai Architects
Studio Mumbai Architects (Bijoy and Priya Jain)
Rahul Mehrotra Associates
Samira Rathod Design Associates
08 Auroville: An Architectural Laboratory
Anupama Kundoo
09 Local Stone (A Fragment)
Reinhold Martin
10 Material Formations
Matharoo Associates (Gurjit Singh Matharoo)
Anupama Kundoo
Vastu Shilpa Consultants (Rajeev Kathpalia)
Architecture Autonomous (Gerard da Cunha)
Urbana
11 In Depth: Inscribing the Indian Landscape
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
12 The 'Background' in Bangalore: Architecture and Critical Resistance in a New Modernity
Prem Chandavarkar
13 A Trip to India
Michael Sorkin
14 Bangalore Architects
Mathew & Ghosh Architects
Hundredhands
Chandavarkar and Thacker
Mindspace (Sanjay Mohe)
InFORM Architects (Kiran Venkatesh)
15 Sharifa's House
Dr Adnan Morshed
16 This is Not a Building! Hand-Making a School in a Bangladeshi Village
Kazi K Ashraf
17 Subcontinental Panorama
Kerry Hill Architects
Piercy Conner Architects & Designers
Shatotto: Architecture for Green Living (Rafiq Azam)
Ann Pendleton-Jullian
Saif Ul Haque Sthapati
Tsunami Design Initiative (TDI)
Madhura Prematilleke (Team Architrave)
AD+
Interior Eye
Boston Institute of Contemporary Art
Jayne Merkel
Building Profile
Casa Kike, Costa Rica
Jeremy Melvin
Practice Profile
DSDHA
Helen Castle
Spiller's Bits
Good-Natured Stuff
Neil Spiller
Yeang's Eco-Files
On Green Design (Part 2)
The Basic Premises for Green Design
Ken Yeang
McLean's Nuggets
Will McLean
Userscape
Sensible Objects for Digital Environments
Valentina Croci
Unit Factor
Forming Climatic Change
Steve Hardy and Werner Gaiser
Site Lines
Gods Are in the Details: The Ambika Temple at Jagat
Adam Hardy