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This book explores brick architecture of the nineteenth century in South India, through the lens of tectonics and materiality.
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Autorenporträt
Priya Joseph teaches at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, MAHE, Bengaluru, India, and is an architect by training. Her work transects architectural history, urban ecologies, art and design in the urban, and material culture. She has published widely on architecture, and materiality, including Terracotta People (2024) and Rupturing Terracotta: Entangled Exchanges of the Hand and the Machine in South India (2022).
Inhaltsangabe
List of figures List of abbreviations Acknowledgements Glossary Part 1: Reading the Archive Chapter 1: The Humble Brick: Material for a Billion Brick: Construction Material for a Billion The Decolonial Lens Hybridity Standardisation, Mechanisation, Automation Brick: Contemporary Challenges Structure and Themes of the Book Chapter 2: Precolonial to Colonial: History of Brick in the Indian Subcontinent Bricks: Indus to the Nineteenth-century Colonial India Regional Variations Missionaries and Factories Terracotta/Fired Earth: Colonisers Trailing the Missionaries Terracotta Brick and Tile Industry in Mangalore The Basel Mission Printing Press Other Terracotta Tiles Chapter 3: Nineteenth-Century Conversations between the Indigenous and the Colonial Introduction Methods and Manuals The Anthropology of Bricks: Brick-makers of Burma Coloured Bricks Well Sinkers: Manual to Mechanised Brick, Mortar and Plasters of the Nineteenth-century India Colonial Coercion The Old and the New Archives Part 2: Drawing the Archives Chapter 4: Why Read and Draw Buildings as Archives? Traditional Taxonomy in Architectural History What is an Archive? Technique and Material as an Anchor of Architectural Analysis Brick in Focus The Hidden Historical Archives in the Tectonic Making of Architecture Tracing the Intersections A Case Study Method Manual Measured Drawings Versus Advanced Digital Techniques Handmade versus Machine-made The Decolonial Shift Chapter 5: Hybridity: Materiality and Tectonic of the Chatrams of Thanjavur Introduction Cases in Brick Chatrams of Thanjavur - Why are the Chatrams of Thanjavur Important? Sculptural and Assembled Derivation in Architecture Muktambal (1801) and Yamunambal Chatrams, Thanjavur (1761) - Typology - Details in Brick Vennar (1779), Kalyana Mahal (1832) and Shreyas Chatrams (1837) - Details in Brick - Column, Openings and Walls in Brick Hybridity Chapter 6: Brick Tectonics of a Church, a School and a Market Rosary Church of Shettihalli, 1810-1880 - Brick Ruins and the Story of Technology - Typology and Drawings - Elements of Architecture Tracing Hybridity Through Drawing The Red Kirk at Bengaluru, 1864 Fort School, Bengaluru, 1907 - Typology and Drawings - Elements of Architecture - Material Technique and Columns New Material and Traditional Skills Devaraja Market, Mysore, Karnataka, 1900 - Typology and Drawings - Elements of Architecture Roofs with Steel Chapter 7: Future: Contemporary Architecture with Bricks and Adobe Standardisation: A Consequence of Nineteenth-century Mass Production Twentieth-century Experiments in Brick Contemporary Brick Architecture in South Asia Brick in the Forefront Conclusion Index
List of figures List of abbreviations Acknowledgements Glossary Part 1: Reading the Archive Chapter 1: The Humble Brick: Material for a Billion Brick: Construction Material for a Billion The Decolonial Lens Hybridity Standardisation, Mechanisation, Automation Brick: Contemporary Challenges Structure and Themes of the Book Chapter 2: Precolonial to Colonial: History of Brick in the Indian Subcontinent Bricks: Indus to the Nineteenth-century Colonial India Regional Variations Missionaries and Factories Terracotta/Fired Earth: Colonisers Trailing the Missionaries Terracotta Brick and Tile Industry in Mangalore The Basel Mission Printing Press Other Terracotta Tiles Chapter 3: Nineteenth-Century Conversations between the Indigenous and the Colonial Introduction Methods and Manuals The Anthropology of Bricks: Brick-makers of Burma Coloured Bricks Well Sinkers: Manual to Mechanised Brick, Mortar and Plasters of the Nineteenth-century India Colonial Coercion The Old and the New Archives Part 2: Drawing the Archives Chapter 4: Why Read and Draw Buildings as Archives? Traditional Taxonomy in Architectural History What is an Archive? Technique and Material as an Anchor of Architectural Analysis Brick in Focus The Hidden Historical Archives in the Tectonic Making of Architecture Tracing the Intersections A Case Study Method Manual Measured Drawings Versus Advanced Digital Techniques Handmade versus Machine-made The Decolonial Shift Chapter 5: Hybridity: Materiality and Tectonic of the Chatrams of Thanjavur Introduction Cases in Brick Chatrams of Thanjavur - Why are the Chatrams of Thanjavur Important? Sculptural and Assembled Derivation in Architecture Muktambal (1801) and Yamunambal Chatrams, Thanjavur (1761) - Typology - Details in Brick Vennar (1779), Kalyana Mahal (1832) and Shreyas Chatrams (1837) - Details in Brick - Column, Openings and Walls in Brick Hybridity Chapter 6: Brick Tectonics of a Church, a School and a Market Rosary Church of Shettihalli, 1810-1880 - Brick Ruins and the Story of Technology - Typology and Drawings - Elements of Architecture Tracing Hybridity Through Drawing The Red Kirk at Bengaluru, 1864 Fort School, Bengaluru, 1907 - Typology and Drawings - Elements of Architecture - Material Technique and Columns New Material and Traditional Skills Devaraja Market, Mysore, Karnataka, 1900 - Typology and Drawings - Elements of Architecture Roofs with Steel Chapter 7: Future: Contemporary Architecture with Bricks and Adobe Standardisation: A Consequence of Nineteenth-century Mass Production Twentieth-century Experiments in Brick Contemporary Brick Architecture in South Asia Brick in the Forefront Conclusion Index
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