BOOK REVIEWS


Innovative Architecture
Through the Ages

2025
Ram Sharma
 

 

Acts of Seeing, Ways of Knowing Visual Culture in the Making of Modern India
2025
Sandria B. Freitag
 
   


Trees and Shrubs
of Mukhteshwar, Uttarakhand

2024
Soham S. Kacker
 
 

Paths Uncharted
2011
Balkrishan Doshi
 

 

Mapping India
2012
Manosi Lahiri
 

 

The Great Arc
2001
John Keay
 

 


Space for Engagement
2008
Himanshu Burte
 
 

The Secret Abode of Fireflies
2010
Nanni Singh
 
 

Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
2007
D. Fairchild Ruggles
 
 

Letters to a Young Architect
2011
Christopher Benninger
 


M N Ashish Ganju
Thinker and Architect
2024
Edited by Narendra Dengle
 

 

Gardens of Delhi
2024
Swapna Liddle &
Madhulika Liddle

 

 

Design X Design
@ 10: Whither Design India
2024
Iftikhar-Mulk Chishti
 

 

The Industrial Ephemeral
Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction
2022
Namita Vijay Dharia
 


Biodiversity Parks
Nature Reserves of Delhi
2021
Prof. C.R. Babu & Rajeev Kr. Tiwari
 

 

Gandhi's Places
An Architectural Documentation
2024
Editors: Neelkanth Chhaya, Riyaz Tayyibji and Tridip Suhurd
 
 

100 Plants
Trees | Shrubs | Grasses
2023
Study: Geeta Wahi Dua
 

 

Nainsukh, the Film
Still Lives • Moving Images
2023
Srikanth Srinivasan
 



Uncivil City
2020
Amita Baviskar
 

 

Blueprint
2018
Gautam Bhatia
 

 

Architecture of Santiniketan
Tagore’s Concept of Space
2013
Samit Das
 
 

Wonders of Nature
Ustad Mansur at the Mughal Court
2012
Asok Kumar Das
 


Shades of Blue: Connecting the Drops in India's Cities
2023
Harini Nagendra
and Seema Mundoli

 
 

Design with Nature
1969
Ian L. McHarg
 


 

Architectures of Transition: Emergent Practices in South Asia
2024
Rahul Mehrotra, Devashree Shah and Pranav Thole
 
 

A Call to Return: a journey with Didi Contractor
2024
Lakshmi Swaminathan
 

 
CURRENT ISSUE LA86
| editorial

MAPPING | COMMONS | ECOLOGY

| tribute

HUMANIZING PLANNING
REMEMBERING E.F.N. RIBEIRO
A.G.K. Menon


| mapping landscapes
Curated by Iqtedar Alam


MAPPING AS A THINKING TOOL
INTERPRETING INDIAN LANDSCAPES
Iqtedar Alam


USING MAPS TO RECONSTRUCT
ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES IN NORTHERN INDIA
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MAHSA PROJECT
Cameron A. Petrie and Rebecca Roberts


TRANSECTS ACROSS THE GARHWAL HIMALAYAS
Ashim Kumar Manna


BRIDGING PEDAGOGY AND RESEARCH
THROUGH MAPPING LIVED LANDSCAPES

Kuili Suganya and Krupa Rajangam


FORTIFIED NATURE, MARKETISED LAND
CARVING OUT A ‘FOREST’ FROM THE FRAGMENTING LANDSCAPE
OF AAREY MILK COLONY
Shweta Wagh


| landscape and the idea of commons
Curated by Maithily Velangi


RETHINKING LANDSCAPE THROUGH COMMONS
Maithily Velangi


COMMONING THE LANDSCAPE
Rahul Paul


INTEGRATING CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FRAMEWORK
FOR MANAGING THE COASTAL COMMONS
REFLECTION FROM KOTTIVAKKAM KUPPAM, CHENNAI
Dhanya Rajagopal


NOT JUST PARCELS OR PLOTS
CAN COMMONS INFORM A NEW ‘WAY OF SEEING’?
Prayag Arora-Desai, Kanchi Kohli and Avadhoot Khanolkar


NOTVISUAL WORLDS, SOCIAL MEANINGS
Book Review | ACTS OF SEEING, WAYS OF KNOWING:
VISUAL CULTURE IN THE MAKING OF MODERN INDIA
Review by Pushkar Sohoni


GUARDIANS OF WATER
Thierry Kandjee


| ecology and Conservation

LANDSCAPE, ETHICS AND ECOLOGY
CONSERVATION THROUGH DESIGN
Gurudas Nulkar


TERRAWILD(-ING)
A LANGUAGE OF PROCESS, FLUX, AND WILD ECOLOGIES
Rushika Khanna


PERMACULTURE IN DESIGN PRACTICE
Anushree Chitnis


| architecture

ACROSS TIMES AND PLACES
Meera Chatterjee


TIMELESSNESS OF THE WONDERS OF ARCHITECTURE
Book Review | INNOVATIVE ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE AGES
Review by Narendra Dengle



































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