Author: Mehrotra Rahu
Place: Mumbai
Publisher: Urban Design Research Institute and Architecture Foundation
Year: 2018
Volume: 2 of 2
Pages: 383
ISBN: –
Subject: Housing
Sub-Subject: Modern Housing
Keyword: Housing, Exbition Catalogue
Shelf: C10R2
Accession No: B1530
Contents: Forrototypesord, Essay, Commentary, Afterword, Postscript, Edited
Abstract: Volume 2 specifically focuses on the forms of dwelling in India, and takes the reader straight to the core of housing – the structure of the dwelling/house/home itself. The bulk of Volume 2 comprises 80 detailed case studies of seminal housing models from across the decades that were either State sponsored or privately built, or sometimes self-built. It captures the systematic study of individual housing types not only representing their physical form but also the protocols, procedures, forms of patronage, policy and financial arrangements that contribute to the final production of the housing project. It is the presentation of case studies that renders this volume unique in that, perhaps for the first time, a historical timeframe is appended along with a spatial analysis of the housing model making it possible for the reader to contextually understand experiments in housing in India through its history.