As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern
Indian built environment from the independence struggle until
today, this book reveals a history that is largely unknown, not
only in the West, but also in India. Educated in the 1930s and
1940s, the very first women architects designed everything from
factories to museums in the post-independence period. The
generations that followed are now responsible for metro systems,
shopping malls, corporate headquarters, and IT campuses for a
global India. But they also design schools, cultural centers,
religious pilgrimage hotels, and wildlife sanctuaries. Pioneers in
conserving historic buildings, these women also sustain and
resurrect traditional crafts and materials, empower rural and
marginalized communities, and create ecologically sustainable
architectures for India. Today, although women make up a majority
in India's ever-increasing schools of architecture, it is still not
easy for them, like their Western sisters, to find their place in
the profession. Recounting the work and lives of Indian women as
not only architects, but also builders and clients, opens a new
window onto the complexities of feminism, modernism, and design
practice in India and beyond. Set in the design centers of Mumbai
and Delhi, this book is also one of the first histories of
architectural education and practice in two very different cities
that are now global centers. The diversity of practices represented
here helps us to imagine other ways to create and build apart from
"starchitecture." And how these women negotiate tradition and
modernity at work and at home is crucial for understanding gender
and modern architecture in a more global and less Eurocentric
context. In a country where female emancipation was important for
narratives of the independence movement and the new nation-state,
feminism was, nonetheless, eschewed as divisive and damaging to the
nationalist cause. Class, caste, tradition, and family
restricted-but also created-opportunities for the very first women
architects in India, just as they do now for the growing number of
young women professionals today.
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