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Architects and Post-Disaster Housing A Comparative Study in South India Gertrud Tauber
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tauber, Gertrud <p>Gertrud Tauber, freelance architect and researcher, Austria</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Architekturen (Bielefeld, Germany) ; Volume 24.
- Architekturen
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architects.
- Rural Post-Disaster Housing.
- India.
- Tsunami.
- Building Process.
- Architecture.
- Postcolonialism.
- Asia.
- Local Subjects:
- Architects.
- Rural Post-Disaster Housing.
- India.
- Tsunami.
- Building Process.
- Architecture.
- Postcolonialism.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Tauber, Architects and Post-Disaster Housing A Comparative Study in South India
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Gertrud Tauber (PhD) works as architect, consultant and researcher. Her research interests include architecture, power and post-disaster housing; housing in rural areas in non-European countries; post-colonial discourses on modernism and the conception of space; local knowledge and local building technologies. She lives close to Innsbruck (Austria).
- Summary:
- This book examines the different roles of architects in rural post-disaster housing and their impact on the degree of success of the projects from villagers' perspective. It is based around the building process of three case studies affected by the tsunami of 2004 in rural South India. It identifies the critical parameters and skills required at project level during the course of the building process. The results from villages and interviews with experienced international and Indian architects, engineers and NGO representatives show that architects are often poorly equipped to work in this context. Gertrud Tauber concludes with a proposal for a course to help architects in the building of people-oriented housing in post-disaster environments.
- Contents:
- 1 Contents 7 Acknowledgements 11 Abbreviations 15 Note on Terminology 17 Preamble 19 Introduction 21 Locating the Field 35 Existing Literature on the Role of Architects in Designing Post-Disaster Housing 39 Building Cultures 47 Research Method 59 Local Governments, NGOs and the Villages 75 Summary of the Three Case Studies 87 1: The Project Management Consultant 89 2: The Draftswoman 115 3: The Surveyor-Anthropologist 139 Understanding the Results 169 International Voices: Comparison of the Results of the Three Case Studies 199 Conclusions and Recommendations for NGOs, Architects and Educational Institutions 209 Appendices 223 Glossary 231 List of Figures 235 List of Pictures 236 List of Tables 237 Bibliograph 239
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839428627
- 3839428629
- OCLC:
- 903890817
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