Acknowledgement of history monuments of mediaeval period in India
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Architecture throughout the world in recent decades has experienced a changing relationship with its past. The collapse of confidence in Modernism as a panacea, as the ready and reliable solution, came from its tendency to universalize at the expense of local and particular needs, felt especially by architecture's users, and from the loss of diversity in expression. In some extreme cases the desire to recover regional or historical elements has led into atavism; but more often the attempt has been to graft onto the continuing mainstream selected elements of restored identities. Hence the variety of Post-Modernisms, and the 'abstract' or 'critical' regionalism, that are by now commonplace. These new approaches are often highly sensitive to the forms, the textures and even the materials of historical or regional building systems. But for the most part the borrowed qualities are rationalized afresh, they are redefined within the context of a Post-Modern philosophy; and there has been some reluctance to engage with the organizing logic — with the theory — of those original systems. Considered archaic or arcane - or just complicated and forgotten - theories from the past are often quietly passed over in favour of some 'essence', which may in truth be rather sketchily defined, but which is offered as easy to grasp and applicable to the needs of the present. Extending beyond a debate amongst professionals about appropriate procedures, all of this deeply affects members of the wider public, with whom architects must communicate. This book addresses this pressing global issue, taking as the ground for discussion the development from pre-colonial to Post-Modern India.
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Architecture throughout the world in recent decades has experienced a changing relationship with its past. The collapse of confidence in Modernism as a panacea, as the ready and reliable solution, came from its tendency to universalize at the expense of local and particular needs, felt especially by architecture's users, and from the loss of diversity in expression. In some extreme cases the desire to recover regional or historical elements has led into atavism; but more often the attempt has been to graft onto the continuing mainstream selected elements of restored identities. Hence the variety of Post-Modern_isms, and the 'abstract' or 'critical' regionalism, that are by now commonplace. These new approaches are often highly sensitive to the forms, the textures and even the materials of historical or regional building systems. But for the most part the borrowed qualities are rationalized afresh, they are redefined within the context of a Post-Modern philosophy; and there has been some reluctance to engage with the organizing logic — with the theory — of those original systems. Considered archaic or arcane - or just complicated and forgotten - theories from the past are often quietly passed over in favour of some 'essence', which may in truth be rather sketchily defined, but which is offered as easy to grasp and applicable to the needs of the present. Extending beyond a debate amongst professionals about appropriate procedures, all of this deeply affects members of the wider public, with whom architects must communicate. This book addresses this pressing global issue, taking as the ground for discussion the development from pre-colonial to Post-Modern India.