Description
• One in all few books which record the unique wood Structure of Kerala
• Supplies distinct social and cultural statement at the background
• Observed with a couple of pictures, maps and plans
It was once within the past due Sixties and ’70s that the creator, then a scholar of Structure, first encountered constructed environments belonging to the genres of people or vernacular traditions. The continual exclusion of those traditions from the up to date city imaginative and prescient pressured Miki Desai to record those types, culminating on this quantity at the wood Structure of Kerala.
This ebook explores the socio-cultural and the tectonic facets of Kerala’s wood Structure, that’s deeply rooted in non secular and secular customs and formed by means of geo-climatic forces. The creator’s multi-disciplinary way hyperlinks the quite a lot of ethnic teams residing in Kerala, and the mutual adoption and edition of building programs inside migrant teams.
Despite being a residing custom serving thousands and thousands of other people, vernacular Structure in India has now not gained the educational and analytical consideration it merits. This quantity makes an attempt to fill this analysis hole, a necessity made extra pressing by means of the truth that the constructed surroundings is converting and the normal techniques of establishing would possibly be replaced by means of the up to date so much sooner than we will consider. Printed in affiliation with DC College of Structure and Layout.
