Materials, too, tell a story. In a shift from glass-and-steel uniformity, architects are embracing lime plaster, terracotta tiles, local stone, and bamboo —materials that are not only environmentally ...

a subtle homage to vernacular practices that parallels a gradual departure from India's legacy of modernist design rhetoric. Indian architecture praxis has evolved to reflect a deeper engagement ...

Excerpted with permission from Vernacular Architecture of India: Traditional Residential Styles and Spaces, Tejinder S Randhawa, Architecture Autonomous. For more information, click here.

Opulence and maximalism are purposefully eschewed throughout this striking example of terracotta homes, making way for an ...

the number of master builders is steadily diminishing and the quality of their work is diminishing…” This plain-speaking report is added towards the end of Vernacular Architecture of India ...

Parametric architecture has also been used to reimagine vernaculars and traditions. From the bamboo structures of Northeast India to the stone temples of the South, vernacular forms have long ...

Field Architects has completed Gulzar's Residence in India "Considering Gulzar's ... "This approach has allowed us to deconstruct the vernacular architecture and create a contemporary home that ...

which Indian studio Taliesyn has added to a streetside site in Bengaluru. Named The Cabin House, the home was informed by the vernacular architecture of south Bengaluru's Jayanagar neighbourhood ...

Rooted in a love for India’s rich cultural history that is 'interspersed with mythology, art, music and architecture', Misa Architects is on a quest to 'stimulate and stir the different senses', ...

Looking down a street in Daulatpur, a rural village in Punjab, India with a mishmash of eclectic, colorful architecture ... images of this phenomenon — a vernacular tradition of architectural ...