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+ 2006-11-13: Memorandum submitted by young architects [1637 words]
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A group of young Architect have come forth with a proposal of new ways of solving the problems of the poor in the modern process of urbanisation. The architects who called on the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on Tuesday the 12th, have suggested a dialogue between the ...
Housing for the Poor…
Slums…
The Prime Minister's Office…
Urbanisation…
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+ 2006-10-11: A Proposal for Research on the Growth and Development of Human Settlements [682 words]
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Human Settlements have grown and developed in the twentieth century as a direct consequence of the industrial enterprise of the 18th and 19th centuries, leading to the unregulated growth of urban agglomerations. In this process towns and cities have changed in nature to become showcases for technological advance, ...
Patrick Geddes…
Settlements…
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+ 2006-10-10: Architect as Team Leader [1350 words]
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The profession of architecture, as we know it today, has been practise for a relatively short time in India. Here we do make a distinction between the architect of today and the classical sthapati who was well-versed in vaastu vidya and astrology. The contemporary professional architect has emerged ...
Identity…
Indian Institute of Architects (IIA)…
The Profession…
The Staphathi…
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+ 2006-09-24: Lutyens Bungalow Zone [2837 words]
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The shift of the capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911 necessitated the building of the imperial city of New Delhi. The design of this city and its principal buildings was entrusted to Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Barker, both being architects well versed in the ...
Development Norms…
Lutyens Bungalow Zone…
Planning Norms…
Prognosis…
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+ 2006-09-20: Middle Income Housing [4203 words]
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The concept of group housing or collective housing, where homes share land and community facilities and are built together to standard designs through a single agency, has its beginning in contemporary India during the first quarter of this century. First, it was the setting up of the colonial ...
Approperiate Technology…
Group Housing…
Housing…
Middle Income Housing…
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+ 2006-08-26: Note on Conservation and Continuity [668 words]
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The purpose of writing these words on ‘conservation’ is to distinguish between a point of view which sees cultural goods as property and one which sees them as information about life processes. In recent times conservation practice has been determined by the notion of ‘cultural property’, whether ...
Conservation…
Sustainibility…
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+ 2006-08-26: Note on Village Planning and Architecture [515 words]
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In the past human settlements, both in rural and urban areas, have grown in an evolutionary manner. In this century the forces of industrial development have accelerated the rate of growth of urban settlements. This has given rise to organized efforts for planned development of urban areas.
Curriculum Design…
Habitat Schools…
Village Planning…
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+ 2006-08-26: Note on Urban Systems and the Poor [559 words]
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Slums have become endemic to urban development as the twentieth century has witnessed the twin-phenomena of industrial development and globalisation at a runaway pace. At the end of this century we find that the urban population of the planet is in a majority. Whereas in industrially developed nations ...
Discourse on Poverty…
Slums…
Urban Systems…
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+ 2006-08-26: Note on International Conference of Humane Habitat, January 23-26, 1999 [387 words]
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When I learnt of the conference and received your kind invitation to present some work in it, I was very happy since the theme is very appropriate. At this time when there is so much talk of the new millennium, we need to examine thoughtfully the agenda ...
Competition Outcomes…
IAHH…
ICHH…
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+ 2006-08-25: Note on Architectural Education [413 words]
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The majority of our people still live in a rural environment, Demographic statistics indicate that over 70% of the population of India is living in rural areas. Yet the context of our educational programmes is predominantly urban in character.
Education…
Urban-Rural 'Divide'…
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+ 2006-08-21: Priorities for a saner environment [1582 words]
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The increase in petrol prices and the shortage of some essential building materials have put us in a situation where it may be possible to re-examine some of our fundamental notions of what should constitute our physical environment. ,br /> The private mother vehicle which has occupied a ...
Affordable Housing…
Development Discourse…
Low-Cost Housing…
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+ 2006-08-21: Notes towards a paper on Building Materials [608 words]
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"The problem in terms of increased building activity in cities-pace of urban development related to migration.... The search for alternative building materials. Important to define the performance requirements of the material. Performance related to habitability. "
Building Materials…
Construction Process…
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+ 2006-08-14: Book Review: Better Homes For All [678 words]
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Residential community architecture for the common man has most often been seen as an extension of the ‘public works’ effort. Within this genre it has been treated as a low priority item, only befitting such terminology as “low-cost housing” for ‘low-income residents’. It has over the years become ...
Housing…
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+ 2006-08-12: Note on Housing for the poor [836 words]
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The National Building Organisation together with the U.N. Regional Housing Centre organised a National Consultation on Low Cost Housing in November. The participants included representatives of State Housing Boards, HUDCO, CBRI, SERC, ISI, TCPO, DDA and Rural Housing Wings, as well as a few private architects and planners. ...
Affordable Housing…
Infrastructural Facilities for Housing…
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+ 2006-08-01: A Cheap Way To Build Houses [1473 words]
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Whenever the problem of providing low-cost houses for the Indian urban dwellers is discussed it generally arouses feelings of dismay and pessimism. For, when the requirement is presented in concrete figures, its cost seems impossibly high compared to the spending capacity of the people and the government. This ...
Affordable Housing…
Construction Site in India…
Planimetric Structures…
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+ 2006-07-31: Draft note on the Concept of Group Housing [1445 words]
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The concept of ‘group housing’ calls for some essential differences from the familiar model of plot housing which one finds generally in New Delhi. For plot housing, infrastructural facilities, such as roads, drainage, electric supply, water supply, etc. are made by the housing Society/Municipal authorities, and each house ...
Group Housing…
Press Association Co-Op Housing…
Project Report…
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+ 2006-07-24: Design Criteria for mass housing [1546 words]
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Today mass housing has become synonymous with low cost housing and the entire national effort in this field has been diverted to producing a cheaper house. Yet the numbers involved are of such magnitude that any amount of cost reduction exercises can not provide the solution for housing ...
Design Framework…
Mass Housing…
People's Participation…
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+ 2006-07-12: People’s Participation in Housing [1975 words]
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Today mass housing has become synonymous with low cost housing and the entire national effort in this field has been diverted to producing a cheaper house. Yet the numbers involved are of such magnitude that any amount of cost reduction exercise can not provide the solution for housing ...
Affordable Housing…
Design Framework…
Mass Housing…
People's Participation…
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+ 2006-07-12: Design Method and Construction Process [2852 words]
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We start with a question – “Can our architectural language be such that it is easily understood by ordinary people?” The question is based on the assumption that, at present, this is not the case. This assumption is, of course, the expression of a personal belief, but I ...
Aesthetics…
Construction Process…
Design Method…
Keynote Address…
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+ 2006-06-14: …To Construct, .02 …Shelter Meanings, Quality of Life [2158 words]
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Migration, Living & Earning, Shelter Meanings, Quality of Life Photo Essay from GREHA Archive
Hive Intelligence…
Migration…
Settlements…
Shelter Meanings…
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