Brick Architecture Craft in Nineteenth-Century South India

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List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Part 1: Reading the Archive

Chapter 1: The Humble Brick: Material for a Billion

? Brick: Construction Material for a Billion

? The Decolonial Lens

? Hybridity

? Standardisation, Mechanisation, Automation

? Brick: Contemporary Challenges

? Structure and Themes of the Book

Chapter 2: Precolonial to Colonial: History of Brick in the Indian Subcontinent

? Bricks: Indus to the Nineteenth-century Colonial India

? Regional Variations

? Missionaries and Factories

? Terracotta/Fired Earth: Colonisers Trailing the Missionaries

? Terracotta Brick and Tile Industry in Mangalore

? The Basel Mission Printing Press

? Other Terracotta Tiles

Chapter 3: Nineteenth-Century Conversations between the Indigenous and the Colonial

? Introduction

? Methods and Manuals

? The Anthropology of Bricks: Brick-makers of Burma

? Coloured Bricks

? Well Sinkers: Manual to Mechanised

? Brick, Mortar and Plasters of the Nineteenth-century India

? Colonial Coercion

? The Old and the New Archives

Part 2: Drawing the Archives

Chapter 4: Why Read and Draw Buildings as Archives?

? Traditional Taxonomy in Architectural History

? What is an Archive?

? Technique and Material as an Anchor of Architectural Analysis

? Brick in Focus

? The Hidden Historical Archives in the Tectonic Making of Architecture

? Tracing the Intersections

? A Case Study Method

? Manual Measured Drawings Versus Advanced Digital Techniques

? Handmade versus Machine-made

? The Decolonial Shift

Chapter 5: Hybridity: Materiality and Tectonic of the Chatrams of Thanjavur

? Introduction

? Cases in Brick

? Chatrams of Thanjavur

- Why are the Chatrams of Thanjavur Important?

? Sculptural and Assembled Derivation in Architecture

? Muktambal (1801) and Yamunambal Chatrams, Thanjavur (1761)

- Typology

- Details in Brick

? Vennar (1779), Kalyana Mahal (1832) and Shreyas Chatrams (1837)

- Details in Brick

- Column, Openings and Walls in Brick

? Hybridity

Chapter 6: Brick Tectonics of a Church, a School and a Market

? Rosary Church of Shettihalli, 1810-1880

- Brick Ruins and the Story of Technology

- Typology and Drawings

- Elements of Architecture

? Tracing Hybridity Through Drawing

? The Red Kirk at Bengaluru, 1864

? Fort School, Bengaluru, 1907

- Typology and Drawings

- Elements of Architecture

- Material Technique and Columns

? New Material and Traditional Skills

? Devaraja Market, Mysore, Karnataka, 1900

- Typology and Drawings

- Elements of Architecture

? Roofs with Steel

Chapter 7: Future: Contemporary Architecture with Bricks and Adobe

? Standardisation: A Consequence of Nineteenth-century Mass Production

? Twentieth-century Experiments in Brick

? Contemporary Brick Architecture in South Asia

? Brick in the Forefront

? Conclusion

Index