Wooden architecture of Kerala:

It was in the late 1960s and '70s that the author, then a student of archtitecture, first encountered built environments belonging to the genres of folk or vernacular traditions. The persistant exclusion of these traditions from the modern urban vision compelled Miki Desai to document these sty...

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1. Verfasser: Desai, Miki 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ahmedabad Mapin Publishing 2018
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Zusammenfassung:It was in the late 1960s and '70s that the author, then a student of archtitecture, first encountered built environments belonging to the genres of folk or vernacular traditions. The persistant exclusion of these traditions from the modern urban vision compelled Miki Desai to document these styles, culminating in this volume on the wooden architecture of Kerala. This book explores the socio-cultural and the tectonic aspects of Kerala's wooden architecture, which is deeply rooted in religious and secular customs and shaped by geo-climatic forces. The author's multi-disciplinary approach links the various ethnic groups residing in Kerala, and the mutual adoption and adaption of construction systems within migrant groups. Despite being a living tradition serving millions of people, vernacular architecture in India has not received the academic and analytical attention it deserves. This volume attempts to fill this research gap, a need made more urgent by the fact that the built environment is changing and the traditional ways of building may get replaced by the modern much faster than we can imagine.
Beschreibung:279 Seiten
ISBN:9789385360220

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