Madhavi Desai

Gebundenes Buch

Women Architects and Modernism in India

Narratives and Contemporary Practices

Beschreibung

This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Extensively illustrated, featuring drawings and photographs, this book will be a milestone in the modernist narrative of South Asia.

Autor

Madhavi Desai is an adjunct faculty member at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT (Center for Environmental Planning and Technology) University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. She is the author of Traditional Architecture: House Form of the Islamic Community of the Bohras in Gujarat (2008); co-author of Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity, India 1880 to 1980 (1997), The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India: The Cultural Expression of Changing Ways of Life and Aspirations in the Domestic Architecture of Colonial and Post-colonial Society (2012) and Architectural Heritage of Gujarat: Interpretation, Appreciation, Values (2012); and editor of Women and the Built Environment in India (2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 193mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9781138210691
• ISBN-10: 1138210692
• Artikelnr.: 47518594