Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

Anisha Shekhar Mukherji and Snehanshu Mukherjee

1. THE RELEVANCE OF THE BUILDING TRADITIONS OF INDIA

Anisha Shekhar Mukherji

2. ARCHITECTURE OF THE PEOPLE

Peu and Prabir K Das

3. CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY

Anu and Krishna

4. Democratising Development through Earth Architecture

Arshima Champa Dost and Mainak Das

5. Activism through Architecture

Kanchan Joneja

6. FRUGALITY: AN INDIAN WAY TO BUILD

Golak Khandual in conversation with Snehanshu Mukherjee and Anisha Shekhar Mukherji

7. ARCHITECTURE FOR WATER: A REPOSITORY OF KNOWLEDGE

Meghal Arya

8. Traditions of the Kathmandu Valley

Biresh Shah

9. Architecture of Control: The Legacy of Modernism

Snehanshu Mukherjee

About the Author

Anisha Shekhar Mukherji is a conservation consultant, architectural historian and an independent designer and researcher. Her interests are in reading historical sites and investigating knowledge-systems encapsulated in indigenous traditions. She integrates these into her teaching-modules as visiting faculty at School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, and focuses attention on them in the public domain through her writings in her blog as well as journals, magazines and books. Her publications include The Red Fort of Shahjahanabad (2003), Jantar Mantar, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh’s Observatory in Delhi (2010) and Attributing Design Identity; Identifying Design Attributes (2020).

Snehanshu Mukherjee is a founding partner of Team for Engineering Architecture & Management (TEAM), has taught at School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi as a visiting Professor, and has been associated in various capacities with several institutions of architecture in India, such as CEPT University, Ahmedabad, SPA Vijaywada, PVPCOA Pune, and IES COA Mumbai. He is currently Adjunct Professor at Indian Institute of Art and Design, New Delhi. He is deeply interested in understanding, analysing, and putting forth solutions to the process of architectural and urban planning in India, which also inform the content of his writings published in several journals, books and his blog.