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Gandhi and architecture : a time for low-cost housing / Venugopal Maddipati.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venugopal, Maddipati, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
- Gandhi.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Homes and haunts--India--Sevāgrām.
- Architecture, Domestic--Philosophy.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Housing--Philosophy.
- Housing.
- Philosophy.
- India--Sevāgrām.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 206 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Contents:
- An architecture of finitude : Segaon, 1936-1937
- The present endures: a late-colonial Gandhian architecture for a post-colonial age at the Low-cost Housing Exhibition of 1954
- Urbanizing finitude : for what reason must a vernacular architecture die? Charles Correa, Gandhi, India : circa 1974-2006
- The house that necessity built : ecology, economy, customization and architecture in the Global South; Wardha : 1978-1998
- Regionalizing finitude; "The Wardha House," language, identity and environment in Wagdara : a Kolam village.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 07, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Venugopal, Maddipati. Gandhi and architecture
- ISBN:
- 9780429262517
- 0429262515
- 9780429557583
- 0429557582
- 9780429562051
- 0429562055
- 9780429553110
- 0429553110
- Publisher Number:
- 40030178775
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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