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082			_aGNDH _bMAD
100			_aMaddipati, Venuopal
245		0	_aGandhi and Architecture : A Time for Low-Cost Housing
260			_a. _bRoutledge _c2021
300			_a230p. _c‎ 6.14 x 0.48 x 9.21 inches _rHardback
504			_aandhi 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
650			_aArchitecture
650			_aBapu
650			_aGandhiji
650			_aM K Gandhi
650			_aMahatma Gandhi
650			_aMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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