TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maddipati, Venuopal 
TI  - Gandhi and Architecture : A Time for Low-Cost Housing
SN  - 9780367199456
U1  - GNDH 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - .
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Bapu
KW  - Gandhiji
KW  - M K Gandhi
KW  - Mahatma Gandhi
KW  - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
N1  - andhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing chronicles the emergence of a low-cost, low-rise housing architecture that conforms to M.K. Gandhi's religious need to establish finite boundaries for everyday actions; finitude in turn defines Gandhi's conservative and exclusionary conception of religion. Drawing from rich archival and field materials, the book begins with an exploration of Gandhi's religiosity of relinquishment and the British Spiritualist, Madeline Slade's creation of his low-cost hut, Adi Niwas, in the village of Segaon in the 1930s. Adi Niwas inaugurates a low-cost housing architecture of finitude founded on the near-simultaneous but heterogeneous, conservative Gandhian ideals of pursuing self-sacrifice and rendering the pursuit of self-sacrifice legible as the practice of an exclusionary
ER  -