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Schneider, Nadja-Christina: Reimagining Housing, Rethinking the Role of Architects in India, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2024 (Media and Cultural Studies, volume 5). https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1381

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https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1381
ISBN 978-3-98887-005-6 (PDF)
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06/04/2024

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Nadja-Christina Schneider

Reimagining Housing, Rethinking the Role of Architects in India

Media and Cultural Studies

This book explores the self-perception of critical architects in post-independent and contemporary India. It takes particular interest in the role of documentary films and other media forms used by architects to intervene in debates on affordable housing and to share their alternative visions on spatial design and sustainable architecture. As a heterogeneous and highly mobile group of social actors, architects and designers develop and implement viable solutions at the intersection of extremely complex challenges and specific local contexts. The book argues that the interconnections in their design thinking and work can best be understood through the conceptual lens of critical regionalism.

Nadja-Christina Schneider is a scholar working on South Asia at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is particularly interested in the post-colonial history, society, and the many cultures of India. One focus of her research and teaching is on the profound changes that have accompanied economic liberalization since the 1980s.

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Table des matières
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i-iv
Table of Contents
v-vii
1 Reimagining Housing, Rethinking the Role of Architects in India: An Introduction
1-13
2 Low-Cost Housing for the People – as Projected by the Films Division of India (1954–1982)
15-33
3 Minnette de Silva: the ‘Forgotten Pioneer’ of Critical Regionalism in Postcolonial South Asia
35-45
4 Living Together in the Vertical City?
47-65
5 Memory, Housing Architecture and Everyday Life: Lovely Villa: Architecture as Autobiography (2019)
67-77
6 State of Housing / A Place to Live (2018)
79-88
7 The “Self-Taught Sustainable Architect” Didi Contractor: Earth Crusader (2016) and Didi Contractor – Marrying the Earth to the Building (2017)
89-98
8 Architectural Imagination in the Two Documentaries Kanade (2021) and Building Visions (2022)
99-107
9 Architectural Storytelling as a Knowledge Sharing Practice: Bharat Minar – The Tower of a Forgotten India (2019)
109-114
10 The Future of Housing? Architects Designing for Multispecies Cohabitation
115-121
References
123-131
Backcover

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