Author: Dalvi Mustansir

Place: Mumbai

Publisher: Sir J.J College of Architecture and Urban Design Research Institute

Year: 2016

Pages: 140

ISBN: 978-81444-13-9

Subject: Architecture

Sub-Subject: Architecture Design

Keyword: Architectural Pedagogy, Architectural Practices, Portfolio

Shelf: C10R2

Accession No: B707

Contents: Foroford, Essay, Commentary, Afterword, Postscript, Edited

Abstract: Introduction by Mustansir Dalvi, The Past as Present, Documentation as Reconstruction, Pedagogy as Perception, Design as Synthesis, Portfolio as Testimony, Behind the Beautiful Drawings, Acknowledgements/ Mustansir Dalvi (2016) The Past as Present- Pedagogical Practices in Architecture at Jeejeebhoy College of Architecture & Urban Design Research Institute ISBN: 9789381444139 the Bombay School of Art; Sir Jamshedjee An exhibition curated by Mustansir Dalvi. In this book, we trace the influences of documentation, decoration and design on architectural pedagogy and architectural practices in India in the late 19th and early 20th century at the Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay. In these pages are the many original drawings made by the students of the school, prints from the portfolios of Jacob Batley and Fletcher and glass ‘magic lantern’ slides that explore this interaction. As a testimony to the diverse strands of aesthetic understanding and practice, we present drawings a representative made by noted portfolio of modernist architect Achyut Kanvinde during his years as a student of the Sir JJ School of Art, which, placed between the dichotomy of tradition and modernism, provides a glimpse into design churnings prevalent at the cups Indian independence.