Rediscovering Architecture with a Sense of History

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-26816-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

This book explores the connection between architecture and history, presenting a rich variety of examples from different cultures that have made human settlements, architecture, and cities. It demonstrates that histories of settlement patterns conserve natural and human sources and symbiotic living with nature, animals, vegetation, and communities that are on the move and explores how the knowledge of materials and techniques of making are integral to architecture.

The book discusses the social, ecological, textual, philosophical, material, and interpretative processes that are reflected in the making of architecture and cities through history. It emphasises how the traditions of making buildings and human habitats involve people of all social strata. It also argues that the histories of architecture cannot be of durable and fixed structures alone but should also closely examine how buildings are extended, sustained, and the processes of their dissolution.

This book is a must-read for students of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture. It will also be a valuable resource for students of other disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, history, environment and ecology and cultural studies. Additionally, it would be helpful for engineers, administrators, decision makers, and economists involved in deciding growth priorities for cities to balance the dependence on technology with the concern for sustainable human habitats.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Savyasaachi

Dengle, Narendra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Rediscovering Architecture with a Sense of History 1. Keynote 2. Making and Matching: Towards shared cultural understanding for students of architecture 3. Towards a Global History of Castelforte San Rocco, Venice (1548-50) 4. Inhabiting Terrain, Defining Territory: Meaning in Dwelling Architecture of Kutch 5. Searching for an Ecosophic approach to space making: learning from History 6. Labour: A Significant Element in the Study of History and Architecture 7. Why Build? Mandala, Mandara and the Ends of Architecture 8. The Whys and Hows of Architectural History 9. Precursors of Indian Modernity: An important phase of Architecture in India 10. Future City Jaipur 11. Connections between the Humble and the Monumental in Architecture: A study of historical cases of houses and temples in the Konkan, in southwestern Maharashtra, India 12. Value of Architecture in the Gradient of Time

Über Autor(innen)

Narendra Dengle is an architect, author, artist, and educator based in Pune. Over the last five decades, his projects have been executed in India and the Sultanate of Oman. He has delivered lectures in India and at universities in the United States, Tokyo, South Africa, Taiwan, and Norway. He is a faculty at the Building Beauty Program in Sorrento, Italy. Exhibitions of his works have been held in India and Europe. His practice reflects his deep concern for the wholeness of life, the connections with ancient wisdom, and the processes of its manifestation in art and architecture. He has authored several books including The Discovery of Architecture: A Contemporary Treatise on Ancient Values and Indigenous Reality (New Delhi: GREHA, 2013), and Dialogues with Indian Master Architects (Mumbai: Marg, 2015). He also edited the two-volume Architecture in Maharashtra: Tradition and Journey (Mumbai: Maharashtra State Board for Literature and Culture, 2024), which was published in both English and Marathi.

Savyasaachi has worked in the fields of political ecology, indigenous people, development, social movements, and conservation architecture. He has taught social anthropology to students of conservation architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. At the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, he has conducted week-long Science and Liberal Arts (SLA) courses on Indian society and culture and guided textile students on ways of doing fieldwork and craft documentation. His publications include The Gift of Guru ki Maseet – Celebrating the Exemplary on the Frontiers of Social Sciences (2016); in Mahuya Bandopadhyay and Ritambhara Hebbar (eds), Towards a New Sociology in India (New Delhi, Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd); "Hand-Crafted: Foundational Value, Creativity and Work, in Threads of Change – Textile Cultures of North East India" (Symposium Papers, IGNCA Delhi and NID Ahmedabad); "Five Aspects of Epistemological Trust in Jauhar", Vol. 6, Issue 1 (July–September 2016); "Craft Architecture and History: Labour, Time and the Future" (2015), in History of Architecture – Towards Writing from an Indigenous Perspective (Proceedings of the Workshop, 18–20 September 2015. Bhopal, School of Planning and Architecture).