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Crafting a Regional Aesthetic in Architecture by Akshita is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This thesis examines how to develop an alternative paradigm for architectural practice in India that expresses a regional contemporary aesthetic. It argues that focusing on "process" over "product" through integrating practice, craft, and industry can cultivate a culture of building rooted in context. The current practice often seeks identity through superficial regional modernism without truly transforming traditional idioms. An alternative is proposed that patrons existing crafts to evolve art at a superi

Author

Akshita

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EN