Indigenous Architecture in India

Exploring Plural Lifeworlds

Gauri Bharat

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Routledge India
21 June 2024

Theory of architecture

This volume focuses on socio- spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. The chapters deal with different ideas and definitions of indigeneity, while also addressing the complex equations between the production and perception of built forms, indigenous technologies, on the one hand, and social, environmental and political contexts, questions of aesthetics, identity, and self-representation on the other.

From Adivasi art and sacred sites to craft villages and nomadic pastoralists in western India, from indigenous bangle makers in urban north India to terracotta crafts people on the south, each chapter focuses on different communities and the contours of their contemporary lifeworlds. The contributions actively attempt to foreground the logic and perspectives of the communities themselves as the epistemological centre of the architectural and material discourses on indigeneity.

This book will be useful for students, teachers, and researchers of architecture, urban design, urban studies, urban development and planning, anthropology, sociology, and museum studies. It will also be of interest to urban planners and designers, policy planners, local government authorities, and professionals engaged in the discipline.

By: Gauri Bharat
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032374840
ISBN 10: 1032374845
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 21 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gauri Bharat is Senior Associate Professor and Program Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. Her research and teaching focuses on lived histories, where she explores how built environments in the past were shaped by and in turn shaped the individual and collective lives of people. The other major focus area is histories of making, where she is working on a book manuscript on the history of reinforced concrete use in the Indian subcontinent. Gauri has published extensively and engages with both academic and non-academic audiences.

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