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CONTENTS PREFACE Deborah Thiagarajan INTRODUCTION Michael W. Meister RHETORICAL USE OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE Vernacular Architecture and the Rhetoric of Re-making 9 Michael W. Meister Norman Brown Professor, History of Art and South Asian Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA Space and the New Temple Vernacular of Seventeenth-century Bengal 16 Pika Ghosh Assistant Professor, University of North Carol/no, Chapel Hill, USA o Marking Identity through Vernacular Form in Bengal 31 Perween Hasan Professor, Dept. of Islamic History and Culture, Dhaka University, Bangladesh VERNACULAR AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF EXPRESSION Wooden Architecture of Kerala: The Physicality and the Spirituality 40 Miki Desai Architect, ARCH/CRAFTS, Ahmedabad, India Traditional House Type and the Building Craft of Gujarat 53 Madhavi Desai Architect, ARCH/CRAFTS, Ahmedabad, India Kudali Tazhathu Vidu 64 A Case Study on an Ancestral House in North Malabar, Kerala Henri Schildt Architect and Doctoral Candidate, Helsinki University, Finland Vernacular Domestic Architecture in Tamil Nadu: Transiting to Modernity 79 Deborah Thiagarajan Honorary President, Madras Craft Foundation, Cbennai, India Anegondi: Architectural Ethnography, an Integral Approach 88 Natalie Tobert Senior Research Fellow, Liverpool John Moores University, UK VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE AND THE MODERN AGENDA Researching Vernacular Architecture 99 Adele Naude Santos Architect, ANS Architects, San Francisco and Philadelphia Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA Ndebele Places 105 A Short Story Paul Mikula and Dennis Claude Architects, Durban, South Africa CONSERVATION OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE Reflections on the Conservation of Hampi 110 Twenty Years at Vijayanagara: Looking and Learning George Michell Architect, Historian Planning for Conservation 117 Rahul Mehrotra Architect, Rahul Mehrotra Associates, Mumbai Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Executive Director, Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai, India Historic Conservation - The Penang Approach 126 Lin Lee Loh-Lim . Architect, Member of the Penang Heritage Trust, Malaysia Historic Urbanised Villages of Delhi 130 Ratish Nanda Conservation Architect, Delhi, India SUMMARY Whither Vernacular Architecture? 133 Discussions from the Seminar Tamara I. Sears Doctoral Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, USA APPENDIX 141 Charter on the Built Vernacular Heritage LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 144 |
