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/  by Thomas DeVoss

acidadebranca: Ga Residential Masterpieces #16 Le Corbusier Shodhan House 5 New from $39.60 In this large-format book, photographer Yukio Futagawa recounts his pilgrimage to Le Corbusiers modernist villa in Ahmedabad, India, built between 1951-56. …

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Ga Residential Masterpieces #16 Le Corbusier Shodhan House

5 New from $39.60

In this large-format book, photographer Yukio Futagawa recounts his pilgrimage to Le Corbusiers modernist villa in Ahmedabad, India, built between 1951-56. A symbol of the famed architects domestic architecture, the private residence integrates traditional features of local design, such as the double-height living room on the ground level, with key aspects like sun, wind and landscaping. The raw concrete form frames the open character of its interior spaces and the overall plan, a five-level cube divided by beams and slabs. In a lovingly photographed and recounted experience, Futagawa makes a tribute to the house like none other.

/  by Thomas DeVoss

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Inhabiting Infrastructures: Indian Stepwells | Socks Studio

The stepwells are generally storage and irrigation tanks in which sets of steps must be descended in order to reach for water and maintain the well itself. These structures are mostly common in western India and in arid regions of South Asia where they provide regular supply in regions affected by heavy seasonal fluctuations in water availability.

The stepwells, (the erliest date to 600 AD), essentially appear as infrastructural monuments for water collection, huge artifacts somewhere between landscape and architecture sunken in the earth. They are usually composed of two constant elements, a well and an access route: the well collects monsoon rain percolating through layers of fine silt (to filter particulates), eventually reaching a layer of impermeable clay. The second elements, the staircases, are descended to reach water and allow the use of the infrastructure. There are no two identical stepwells, as each one of them, – about 3000 were built -, reveals specific features in the shape and in the decorative motives; in some cases the stepwells host galleries and chambers around the well.

/  by Thomas DeVoss

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Kailashnath Temple, also Kailash Temple or Kailasanath Temple is a famous temple dug…in the wall of a high basalt cliff in the complex located at Ellora, Maharashtra, India. It is a megalith carved out of one single rock. It was built in the 8th century by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I.

The Kailash Temple is notable for its vertical excavation—carvers started at the top of the original rock, and excavated downward.

It is estimated that about 400,000 tons of rocks was scooped out over hundreds of years to construct this monolithic structure.

INDIAN HISTORY LITERALLY NEVER MANAGES TO BE BORING OR EVEN TBQH SHORT OF BREATH-TAKING 

Ancient builders didn’t mess around damn, amazing

/  by Thomas DeVoss

architectureofdoom: whospeaksandacts: Aranya (1989, Indore) is a low-cost social housing project designed by Vaastu Shilpa Foundation, Sangath, the atelier of B.V. Doshi. “It is an innovative sites-and-services project, particularly noteworthy fo…

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Aranya (1989, Indore) is a low-cost social housing project designed by Vaastu Shilpa Foundation, Sangath, the atelier of B.V. Doshi. “It is an innovative sites-and-services project, particularly noteworthy for its effort to integrate families within a range of poor-to-modest income” (Aga Khan Jury). The design engages plurality at the level of a) lot size b) street typology c) housing typology and d) flexibility for adaptation and growth.