Renewing Design with Communities

This book looks at alternative ways of analyzing traditional and contemporary architectural design and building practices in South Asia with a special focus on India. It showcases how collaborative projects between architects and local communities can lead to sustainable and equitable practices in architecture.-

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.

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