City: BARODA
Ar. Ms. Punita J. Mehta
Ar. Punita J. Mehta is a leading practicing architect from Baroda from last 27 years. She has been awarded President’s Scholarship, University of Canberra, Australia in 2000. She always has interest in participating seminars, paper reading, lectures, talks which belongs to architecture field. She has also published two journals in architectural design issues. She is working on the structure and content of a skill based training program for women in the building industry with “Olakh” as a means of empowering women
Ar. Jaimini Mehta
Ar. Jaimini Mehta is an alumnus of M.S. University, Baroda and university of Pennsylvania. He has worked with Louis Kahn and Mitchell Giourgola Associates in Philadelphia. His published books are “Louis Kahn Architect co-authored with Romaldo Glurgola,” “Rethinking modernity – towards post rational Architecture,” “Embodied Vision – Interpreting the Architecture of Fatehpur Sikri” and Critiquing Modern in Architecture. He has recently won the JK AYA award for Literary Architecture for His Book Critiquing the Modern in Architecture. Presently he is doing professional as well as Academic practices.
Ar. Suryakant Patel
Ar. A.M. Shirgaokar (2)
Ar. Jaimini Mehta
Jaimini Mehta is a practicing architect and the Honorary Director of the Center for the Study of Urbanism and Architecture in Vadodara, India. His previous books include Louis I. Kahn: Architect (1975, co-authored with Romaldo Giurgola), Rethinking Troodos: Post-Rational Architecture (2011), and Embodied Vision: Interpreting the Architecture of Fatehpur Sikri (2014).
Jaimini Mehta’s collection of essays is a must-read for those who believe architecture, as both a material and intellectual construct, is a metropolis of ideas—diverse, complex, challenging, rewarding, and important. Each thought-provoking essay is a critical rumination on the global nature of modernism, its possibilities, foibles, and its implications for culture as ways of living. Professor Mehta accepts the value of modernity but argues cogently and convincingly throughout for a rethinking of the foundations upon which it was built. David Bell, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Written over four decades, Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture. Author Jaimini Mehta moves architectural modernism beyond its primarily Eurocentric definition, interrogating the subject from the perspective of a non-Western thought-world. Mehta groups his essays under three key themes: “Modernity,” which explores the ideological underpinnings of the modernity–modernism binary; “The Idea of Architecture,” which examines issues that constitute the timeless and invariable aspects of architecture against which the prevalent modernist discourse can be critically evaluated; and “On Praxis,” which analyzes the works of three contemporary architects and the Vienna Secessionist movement (1890–1918) to articulate a critique of the foundations of the modern movement. Providing a new view of the modern in architecture, this book is essential reading for architectural theorists and scholars of modernism.
Ar. Pratyush Shankar
Salient Feature of the Project
Name & Location: RESIDENCE FOR THREE GENERATION OF ARTISTS
Cost of Project (INR): ₹70,00,000/-
Built-up area: 700 Sq. Mts.
(In case of Public Building minimum built-up area should be 1000 sq. meter)
Description of Project:
This is a residence on the outskirts of Udaipur, Rajasthan with Aravali mountains around. Three generation of artists (painters) stay here. The building is located with open space & rolling hills around, just outside the city. It is positioned as to go against the slope like a check dam and allowing water to flow through it. First floor can be accessed by the higher slopes of the side grounds.
Materials of Construction Details:
Load bearing brick masonry
Load bearing stone masonry
R.C.C slabs
Nimbada stone cladding on east wall
Kota stone (polished) for indoor flooring
Nimbada stone for landscape flooring
Special Features:
Like a check dam – acknowledges water flows
Creates/accentuates the presence of sloping ground
Opens out to landscape of various conditions
Privacy to all the artists but one common place for interaction
