Women architects and modernism in India :
Desai, Madhavi, 1951-
Women architects and modernism in India : narratives and contemporary practices / Madhavi Desai. - First South Asia Edition. - xxii, 408 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm - Visual and media histories .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-404) and index.
"This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the narrative of mainstream architectural history within the challenge of non-existent archives, it sheds light on seven pioneering women who broke male bastions to go beyond the traditional confines of the era from the 1940s onwards."--Publisher's description.
9781138281424 (hbk.) Rs9450.00 9781138210691 1138210692
2017325353
Women architects--India.
Architecture--India.
NA1997 / .D47 2017
720.82 DES / 012885
Women architects and modernism in India : narratives and contemporary practices / Madhavi Desai. - First South Asia Edition. - xxii, 408 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm - Visual and media histories .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-404) and index.
"This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the narrative of mainstream architectural history within the challenge of non-existent archives, it sheds light on seven pioneering women who broke male bastions to go beyond the traditional confines of the era from the 1940s onwards."--Publisher's description.
9781138281424 (hbk.) Rs9450.00 9781138210691 1138210692
2017325353
Women architects--India.
Architecture--India.
NA1997 / .D47 2017
720.82 DES / 012885