Rediscovering Architecture with a Sense of History
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. July 2026
Book
Hardback
186 pages
978-1-041-26816-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the connection between architecture and history, presenting a rich variety of examples from different cultures that have made human settlements, architecture, and cities. It demonstrates that histories of settlement pattern conserve natural and human sources, symbiotic livening with nature, animals, vegetation, communities that are on the move, and how the knowledge of materials and techniques of making are integral to architecture.
The book discusses the social, ecological, textual, philosophical, material, and interpretative processes that reflect in the making of architecture and cities through history. It emphasises on how the traditions of making buildings and human habitat involve people of all social strata. It also argues that the histories of architecture cannot be of durable and fixed structures alone, but should also closely examine how buildings are extended, sustained, and the processes of their dissolution.
This book will be important for students of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture. It will also be a valuable resource for other disciplines including sociology, anthropology, history, environment and ecology, and cultural studies. Additionally, it would be helpful for engineers, administrators, decision makers, and economists involved in deciding growth priorities for cities to balance the dependence on technology with the concern for sustainable human habitat.
The book discusses the social, ecological, textual, philosophical, material, and interpretative processes that reflect in the making of architecture and cities through history. It emphasises on how the traditions of making buildings and human habitat involve people of all social strata. It also argues that the histories of architecture cannot be of durable and fixed structures alone, but should also closely examine how buildings are extended, sustained, and the processes of their dissolution.
This book will be important for students of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture. It will also be a valuable resource for other disciplines including sociology, anthropology, history, environment and ecology, and cultural studies. Additionally, it would be helpful for engineers, administrators, decision makers, and economists involved in deciding growth priorities for cities to balance the dependence on technology with the concern for sustainable human habitat.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
43 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 43 s/w Abbildungen
43 Halftones, black and white; 43 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-26816-1 (9781041268161)
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Savyasaachi | Narendra Dengle
Rediscovering Architecture with a Sense of History
E-Book
approx. 07/2026
Routledge
€60.49
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Savyasaachi | Narendra Dengle
Rediscovering Architecture with a Sense of History
E-Book
approx. 07/2026
Routledge
€60.49
Not yet available
Persons
Savyasaachi has worked in the fields of political ecology, indigenous people, development, social movements, and conservation architecture. He has taught social anthropology to students of 'conservation architecture, at the School of Planning and Architecture Delhi. At National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, he has taught weeklong SLA courses on Indian Society and culture and has been sharing with textile students' ways of doing field work and Craft Documentation. He has published 2016 The Gift of Guru ki Maseet-Celebrating the Exemplary on the Frontiers of Social Sciences in Mahuya Bandopadhyay and Ritambhara Hebbar eds Towards a New Sociology in India. New Delhi, Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd ; Hand-Crafted: Foundational Value, Creativity and Work in Threads of Change-Textile Cultures of North East India (Symposium Papers) IGNCA Delhi and NID Ahmedabad; Five Aspects of epistemological trust in Jauhar Vol 06 Issue 01 July-September 2016; 2015 Craft Architecture and History: Labour, Time and the Future in History of Architecture-Towards Writing from an Indigenous Perspective Proceedings of workshop September 18-20 2015. Bhopal, School of Planning and Architecture.
Narendra Dengle is an architect, author, artist, and educator based in Pune. Over the last five decades, his projects have been executed in India, and the Sultanate of Oman. He has lectured in India and universities in USA, Tokyo, South Africa, Taiwan, and Norway. He is a faculty at the Building Beauty Program, at Sorrento, Italy. Exhibitions of his works were held in India and Europe. He is concerned about the wholeness of life, connections with ancient wisdom, and the processes of its manifestation in art and architecture.
Narendra Dengle is an architect, author, artist, and educator based in Pune. Over the last five decades, his projects have been executed in India, and the Sultanate of Oman. He has lectured in India and universities in USA, Tokyo, South Africa, Taiwan, and Norway. He is a faculty at the Building Beauty Program, at Sorrento, Italy. Exhibitions of his works were held in India and Europe. He is concerned about the wholeness of life, connections with ancient wisdom, and the processes of its manifestation in art and architecture.
Content
Introduction: Rediscovering Architecture with a Sense of History 1. Keynote 2. Making and Matching: Towards shared cultural understanding for students of architecture 3. Towards a Global History of Castelforte San Rocco, Venice (1548-50) 4. Inhabiting Terrain, Defining Territory: Meaning in Dwelling Architecture of Kutch 5. Searching for an Ecosophic approach to space making: learning from History 6. Labor and Architecture-Significant elements in the study of history and architecture 7. Why Build? Mandala, Mandara and the Ends of Architecture 8. The Whys and Hows of Architectural History 9. Precursors of Indian Modernity: An important phase of Architecture in India 10. Future City Jaipur 11. Connections between the Humble and the Monumental in Architecture: A study of historical cases of houses and temples in the Konkan, in southwestern Maharashtra, India 12. Value of Architecture in the Gradient of Time