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Author Maddipati, Venugopal

Title Gandhi and Architecture A Time for Low-Cost Housing
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (229 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Preface -- Introduction: the enduring present -- 1 An architecture of finitude: Segaon, 1936-1937 -- 2 The present endures: a late-colonial Gandhian architecture for a post-colonial age at the low-cost housing exhibition of 1954 -- 3 Urbanizing finitude: for what reason must a vernacular architecture die? Charles Correa, Gandhi, India: circa 1974-2006 -- 4 The house that necessity built: ecology, economy, customization and architecture in the global south
Wardha: 1978-1998 -- 5 Regionalizing limits -- "The Wardha House," language, identity and environment in Wagdara: a Kolam village -- 6 Afterword -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429557583
0429557582