Indigenous Architecture in India - Exploring Plural Lifeworlds

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.

Sommario

Introduction: Indigenous Architecture in India 1. Studying Bachchom Bayer Ba: The Indigenous Floor Art of Kolhan 2. The Sacred Grove and the Livelihood and Identity of Santals 3. Flooded Villages, Foldable Houses, and Flexible Living 4. Decoding a Craft Habitat. INTERLUDE: Exploring Indigeneity and the City. 5. Placing Indigeneity in the networks of glass-bangle making in Firozabad 6. Ecological Knowledge and Everyday Life of Vagadiya Rabaris 7. Terracotta People: Productive Tensions Between the Indigenous and the Colonial 8. Dialogue between Carpenters and Mud Masons: Cases from Telangana and Goa 9. Material Culture and Change at Chota Oda 10. Community, Spaces and Environment

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gauri Bharat
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032792637
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279263-7
• Pagine: 202
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Regional, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Urban & municipal planning, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Housing & homelessness, Theory of architecture, Housing and homelessness, Civil engineering, surveying and building, Rural planning and policy, Rural planning, Urban communities / city life