Ghosn, Rania

Geostories : Another Architecture for the Environment - AADI CENTRE 2019 -

Through formal, scholastic, and textural readings supported by rich illustrations -both photographs and drawings of the water structures in Jodhpur, the author takes readers on a captivating journey tracing the flows of water. This book is an excellent commentary on the domestication of water, flowing and traveling through various drainage basins received and contained in well-crafted architecture, managed by ingenious networks and systems. In the end, the author argues upon changing paradigms of the spatiality of water, hoping to invoke a sense of responsibility and conversation amongst many stakeholders dealing with the purposeful regeneration of urban infrastructure.

9781945150791


Architecture
Domestication of water
Water structures in Jodhpur

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