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Author Desāī, Mādhavī.

Title The bungalow in Twentieth-Century India : the cultural expression of changing ways of life and aspirations in the domestic architecture of colonial and post-colonial society / by Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai and Jon Lang
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
©2012
©2012

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Description xx, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Series Ashgate studies in architecture series
Ashgate studies in architecture series.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: The Bungalow: Its Origins and its Evolution in Twentieth-Century India -- pt. I The Family House -- 2.A Point of Departure: Residential Building Types in India in 1900 - Indigenous and Colonial -- 3.The Utility of the Bungalow as a Precedent for Twentieth Century Residential Architecture -- pt. II The Evolution of the Bungalow and its Offspring in the Twentieth Century -- 4.Suburbanization, Cultural Change and Building Type Modifications -- 5.Architects, Architectural Fashions and Stylistic Shifts -- 6.Regional Climates and Cultures and House Form: Diversifying and Homogenizing Factors -- pt. III Postscripts -- 7.Apartments and Bungalows, Villas and ̀Farm' Houses -- 8.Conclusion: The Disappearing Bungalow?
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Architecture and society -- India -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic -- India -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic -- India -- History.
Bungalows -- India -- History -- 20th century.
Bungalows -- India -- History.
Vernacular architecture -- India -- History.
SUBJECT India -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Author Desai, Miki, 1947-
Lang, Jon T.
LC no. 2011021381
ISBN 1409427382 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781409427384 (hardback : alk. paper)