Women architects and modernism in India: narratives and contemporary practices

"This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the narrative of mainstream architectural history within the challenge of non-existent archives, it sh...

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1. Verfasser: Desai, Madhavi 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2017
Schriftenreihe:Visual and media histories
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Zusammenfassung:"This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the narrative of mainstream architectural history within the challenge of non-existent archives, it sheds light on seven pioneering women who broke male bastions to go beyond the traditional confines of the era from the 1940s onwards."...Publisher's description
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-404) and index
Beschreibung:xxii, 408 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 26 cm
ISBN:9781138210691
1138210692