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



Research

The following are the main research projects going on:

• Women Architects in India: Past, Present and Future with Dr. Mary Woods, an architectural historian and Professor at Cornell University, USA (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)
• 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)

• 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 (image)  
• Desai, Madhavi, Editor
  Women and the Built Environment,
  Zubaan (Formerly Kali for Women), New Delhi, (2007)
• Desai, Madhavi
  Traditional Architecture: House Form of Bohras in Gujarat,
  National Institute of Advanced Studies in Architecture (NIASA), Pune (forthcoming)

• European Exhibition ILL-WHY
• Indian house form and culture: traditions of Gujarat