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Matra is an intensive research generated from the two study trips conducted by faculty members and students of the School of Interior Design (SID), CEPT University to the remote villages and famous temples of Himalayan India. The houses, granaries and temples of this region are described in detail through extensive fieldwork, measure drawings and a comprehensive study of the kath-khuni (wood-and-stone) houses that define the material culture of these mountainous ...
Through Naqsh, the author explores and documents exhaustively in detail the art of wood carving of traditional architecture of Gujarat. Traversing from the history of wood carving of India, the book investigates thoroughly the tools and techniques applied by the craftsmen working within the trade guilds. The main section comprises of the ornamentations (symbols, motifs and patterns) witnessed on the traditional wooden houses, which are categorized and analyzed in ...