Building Jaipur: The Making Of An Indian City; Author: Sachdev, Vibhuti; Joint Author: Tillotson, Giles; Paperback

Author: Sachdev, Vibhuti; Joint Author: Tillotson, Giles
Paperback; 25 Colour and 105 B&w Illustrations
197 pages
Published: September 2002
Reaktion Books Ltd
ISBN: 1861891377

Jaipur is famous for its palaces, museums, and distinctive pink shops and houses. But how well are its architecture and planning understood? Building Jaipur is an essay in intellectualarcheology, explaining historic buildings according to the rationale of their architects, and exploring the relationship between theory and architectural practice in Indias past. The result is an architectural biography of a fascinating city, and a fresh understanding of the use and purpose of Indian architectural theory over the last 300 years./Vibhuti Sachdev is an architect, the author of Indian Architectural Theory (1998), and a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, U.K. /Giles Tillotson is Senior Lecturer at SOAS, University of London, and the author of many booksThe making of an Indian City. Building Jaipur is an illustrated history of the majestic city. The volume also offers a concise history of Indian architectural theory that covers the last three hundred years.