Rediscovering Architecture with a Sense of History

Introduction: Rediscovering Architecture with a Sense of History

M N Ashish Ganju                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

1. Keynote                                                                                                       

Samdong Rinpoche

2. Making and Matching: Towards shared cultural understanding for students of architecture 

Nicholas Ray                                                                                                   

3. Towards a Global History of Castelforte San Rocco, Venice (1548-50)

Giorgio Gianighian                                                                                          

4. Inhabiting Terrain, Defining Territory: Meaning in Dwelling Architecture of Kutch

Neelkanth Chhaya                                                                                            

5. Searching for an Ecosophic approach to space making: learning from History

Aneerudha Paul                                                                                               

6. Labor and Architecture-Significant elements in the study of history and architecture

Savyasaachi                                                                                                     

7. Why Build? Mandala, Mandara and the Ends of Architecture

Shonaleeka Kaul                                                                                              

8. The Whys and Hows of Architectural History

Anisha Shekhar Mukherji                                                                                  

9. Precursors of Indian Modernity: An important phase of Architecture in India

Rabindra Vasavada                                                                                          

10. Future City Jaipur

Snehanshu Mukherjee                                                                                      

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

Narendra Dengle                                                                                             

12. Value of Architecture in the Gradient of Time

M N Ashish Ganju   

Biography

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 National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, he has taught weeklong SLA courses on Indian Society and culture and has been sharing with textile students’ ways of doing field work and Craft Documentation. He has published 2016 The Gift of Guru ki Maseet-Celebrating the Exemplary on the Frontiers of Social Sciences 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 06 Issue 01 July-September 2016; 2015 Craft Architecture and History: Labour, Time and the Future in History of Architecture-Towards Writing from an Indigenous Perspective Proceedings of workshop September 18-20 2015. Bhopal, School of Planning and Architecture.

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 lectured in India and universities in USA, Tokyo, South Africa, Taiwan, and Norway. He is a faculty at the Building Beauty Program, at Sorrento, Italy. Exhibitions of his works were held in India and Europe. He is concerned about the wholeness of life, connections with ancient wisdom, and the processes of its manifestation in art and architecture.