Yatin Pandya Vastu-Shilpa Foundation
Yatin Pandya is an author, activist, academician, researcher as well as practising architect with his firm FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. A graduate of CEPT University, Ahmedabad, with M.Arch. from McGill University, Canada, he was involved with architectural research as associate director of Vastu-Shilpa Foundation. Pandya has been involved with city planning, urban design, mass housing, architecture, interior design, and product design as well as conservation projects and has written extensively for national
ELEMENTS OF SPACEMAKING
ELEMENTS OF SPACEMAKING
The notions of space are made physically manifest in architecture through the different elements that constitute the basic identifiable parts of the manmade or built environment. Each of these elements possess attributes
architecture, published internationally. He received the IIA Award
inherent to their morphological construct which endow
ELEMENTS OF SPACEMAKING
and international journals. He is the author of several books on 2012 for Excellence in Architecture in the Research category for his book Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture and has won many other national and international awards for architectural design, research as well as dissemination. He has been visiting faculty at National Institute of Design and CEPT University and guest lecturer/critic to various universities in India and abroad.
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them as particular spatial properties, providing potential for their use and design in architectural compositions. The book examines the inherent attributes of ‘spacemaking’ elements like roofs, walls, doors, windows, columns, stairs and floors and analyses their implicit influences in the design of space. It traces the linguistic origin of the terms as well as the evolution of each element through history—from primeval structures to modern architecture. The effective applications of these are illustrated through extensive drawings and sketches of detailed case studies from all over the world.
With 1400 line drawings
CONCEPTS OF SPACE IN TRADITIONAL INDIAN ARCHITECTURE Yatin Pandya • Vastu-Shilpa Foundation
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