TY  - BOOK
AU  - Desai,Miki
AU  - Lang,Jon
TI  - 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 
T2  - Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series
SN  - 9781138111226
AV  - NA7572.5.I4 D47 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Bungalows
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Architecture, Domestic
KW  - Vernacular architecture
KW  - Social life
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index (pages 227-234).; 1. Introduction: The Bungalow: Its Origins and its Evolution in Twentieth-Century India.; Part 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.; Part II The Evolution of the Bungalow and its Offspring in the Twentieth Century; 4. Suburbanization, Cultural Chance and Building Type Modifications -- 5. Architects, Architectural Fashions and Stylistic Shifts -- 6. Regional Climates and Culturel and House Form: Diversifying and Homogenizing Factors; Part III Postscripts.; 7. Apartments and Bungalows, Villas and 'Farm' Houses -- Conclusion: The Disappearing Bungalow?
N2  - The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during the century. This book describes and explains the various technological, political and social developments that shaped one building type - the bungalow - contemporaneous to the development of modern Indian history during the period of British rule and its subsequent aftermath. Drawing on their own physical and photographic documentation, and building on previous work by Anthony King and the Desais, the authors show the evolution of the bungalow's architecture from a one storey building with a verandah to the assortment of house-forms and their regional variants that are derived from the bungalow. Moreover, the study correlates changes in society with architectural consequences in the plans and aesthetics of the bungalow. It also examines more generally what it meant to be modern in Indian society as the twentieth century evolved.--backover.
ER  -