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The book puts together the authors’ wide-ranging experiences of a 20-year, highly ambitious project: the conservation of the awe-inspiring Nagaur Fort: from its very beginning to its completion. Acknowledged worldwide, this complex, exceedingly demanding project also received the UNESCO Award for Excellence for Conservation of Cultural Heritage in 2002 – a first for any project in India. The Fort’s Conservation was funded, among others, by the ...
Thematic Space in Indian Architecture represents an attemptto understand th spatial order that apparently runs right across the enormous spectrum of building types in India. This spatial order seems to emerge more from its own meanings rather than the specificity of any function. This very ambiguity creates a range od spaces that are similar in form and yet diverse in character. An effort to understand space in Indian architecture can draw on the simple and ...