This is the focus of our work. The main research areas have been vernacular, colonial and modern architecture of India. In addition, Madhavi Desai has also been involved in the area of gender and the built environment.

Research

The following are the main research projects going on:

• Women in Architecture in India: Independence, Modernism and Gender (By Madhavi Desai)
• Domestic Regional Architecture of Gujarat: The Socio-cultural Nuances: 1850 to 1947 (By Miki Desai)
• The Evolution of the Indian Bungalow (1900 to 1970): The Colonial Legacy and its Carry Over in the Post-Independence Period (By Miki and Madhavi Desai, with Jon Lang)
• Wooden Architecture of Kerala: A Distinct Tradition in the Indian Subcontinent (By Miki Desai)
• An Inquiry into Gender and Architecture of the Colonial Bungalow Form in Gujarat, India: 1900 to 1970 (By Madhavi Desai)

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Publications

The following publications are available:

• Lang, Desai, Desai
  
  • Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity, India -1880 to 1980, Oxford University Press, New Delhi: 1997
• Desai, Miki, an Exhibition Catalogue
  
  • Architecture in Gujarat, Indien (Translated in German by F. Keller), The Rietberg Museum, Zurich: 1990
• Desai Madhavi, Editor
  
  • Women and the Built Environment, Zubaan (Formerly Kali for Women), New Delhi: 2007
• Desai Madhavi
  
  • Traditional Architecture: House Form of the Islamic Community of the Bohras in Gujarat”, Council of Architecture, Pune: 2007

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Exhibitions

• European Exhibition ILL-WHY
• Indian House-form and Culture: Traditions of Gujarat

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Lectures

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