Snehal Shah
Subtitle: architect
By: editors, Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper
Contributors: Beck, Haig, editor; Cooper, Jackie, editor
Publisher: Mapin Publishing, in association with Akshara Foundation
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ahmedabad, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781935677468
Subjects: Architecture; History; Histoire
Description: Snehal Shah believes in making architecture that is 'of its time', as a Gujarati proverb states. History confirms that buildings appropriate to their time, place and climate endure. In learning to build, his architecture adopted a variety of expressions - with the constant being the will to manipulate light and ventilation to best advantage. He studies vernacular techniques as well as learning from wider Indian exemplars and also Western architectural history. References from all these find their way into his buildings, along with his debt to the geometry of Louis Kahn and Mario Botta. In this book, Shah exhibits the work of 25 years in practice. He describes his concerns and development as an architect in parallel with the emergence of India onto the world stage as a mighty, populous, modern nation rich in contradictions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.282).
Table of contents: title: To build on dusty plains / Haig Beck, Jackie Cooper; title: Five lessons / Snehal Shah; title: Works 2000-2009 India; title: Works 2010- India; title: The early years of practice, India 1987-1996; title: Interior design India 1987; title: Unbuilt works India 1987-; title: Practice culture.