Refiguring the sketch : the Nari Gandhi cartographic
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Author(s)
Jalia, Aftab Amirali
Advisor(s)
Stanford Anderson and Rahul Mehrotra.
Alternative Title
Nari Ghadhi cartographic
Date Issued
2008
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Nariman Dossabhai Gandhi, one of the earLiest proponents of organic architecture Taliesin and heaviLy influenced by Frank LLoyd Wright's teachings on the same subj personal understanding of the term: organic, extending it beyond his mentor's architectural rendition. Nari Gandhi defied the Legal and social norms that govern most present day ... Less-known exemplar of the organic ideology. This study of his works is placed in th that saw the emergence of new social thought, culture and architectural ... nation wanting to renew its physical identity. My thesis looks at his Life, unusual working ... and attempts to understand the ramifications of the rarity he embodied. A 37 mln film, researched and shot in India, accompanies this text and is the first like and works.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-117).
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Architecture.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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