The Spirit of Indian Architecture

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This path-breaking work addresses several issues for the very first time and reveals many findings about Indian architecture in details never researched or published anywhere before. Indeed, this project is the culmination of the author’s entire lifetime’s work. The book brings to a sharp focus the relevant and logical, and refuses to tread the path of the herd. The book amazes and enlightens through questions and answers. It reasons and nationalizes. The strength of his writing is that it sparks a thought process in the mind of the reader. The reader, then is no longer a passive reader but is turned into a ‘discoverer’. The book has been divided into three sections. Section I, deals with ‘humanized’ architecture–the scale, space, and the basic elements of architecture with a new vision that is not only refreshing but also immensely practical in the modern age. This section sets the basis for the rest of the book. Section II, details the strategies for planning settlements–homes, neighbourhoods and indeed entire townships. The focus is on achieving truly ‘harmonious’ living in balance with nature. This section propounds a workable and sustainable model of living, without the stress, strife and chaos associated with modern urban development. Section III, emphasizes the role of training, without which professional results are not possible. Indeed, a trained mind, armed with reason and an inner strength, can achieve what others cannot. The narration is lucid, direct and replete with many scientific facts. The book is also rich in visual content and contains more than hundred drawings, plans, illustrations, examples and actual case studies. The target readership of this book would be anyone from a student of architecture to an accomplished architect, urban planners, educationists and policy makers, and indeed anyone who is interested in improving the quality of life. In its finality, the book, a textbook, as the author likes to call it, is not only a unique work on architecture but on the art of living itself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR D.K. Bubbar

Darshan Kumar Bubbar was born in 1937 in Quetta, Balochistan. Since an early age, he showed an incredible talent in his drawings, which eventually led him to join the field of architecture. Before commencing his formal education at the Academy of Architecture, Mumbai, he worked with eminent architects in Delhi for four years, which served as a rigorous training ground for him. He started his own practice in 1965 under the name and style of The Angles Architects, and today the firm continues to furnish complete services in the field of design and execution of building, planning and interior projects. His work has ranged from designing houses, bungalows and housing complexes to educational campuses, hospitals, offices, residential and institutional buildings and even interiors with furniture design. Through three decades, D.K. Bubbar has been an untiring student for the age-old principles of Indian architecture. His thoughts and works have been published in several periodicals and newspapers. He has taught at the Academy of Architecture, Mumbai, conducted workshops at School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Sir J. J. School of Architecture, Mumbai and many other colleges. He has lectured at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and National University of Singapore. Interviews with him have been telecast on several television channels.