Conservation and the phenomenology of identity
By: Jadhav, Rajratna U
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Publisher: Mumbai Indian Institute of Architects 2022Edition: Vol.87(9), Sep.Description: 12-19p.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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Journal of the Indian institute of architects :(JIIA)Summary: This paper addresses the issues of heritage conservation in the
urban post-colonial city of Mumbai (formerly, Bombay), India.
While the Colonial period and its attendant constructs are generally
rejected and looked at as a bad memory, buildings constructed by
the British are considered worthy of conservation. This paper aims
to understand this apparent contradiction from the viewpoint of
memory and identity as a phenomenological construct.
An understanding of the ideas of identity used are with relation to
dwellings as written by three authors: the Norwegian architectural
historian and theorist, Christian Norberg-Schulz; of memory in
association to a house as explicated by French philosopher Gaston
Bachelard (1997); and of multiplicity of identities as proposed by
Indian economist, thinker and Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen as a
framework to understand the apparent contradiction mentioned
above.
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This paper addresses the issues of heritage conservation in the
urban post-colonial city of Mumbai (formerly, Bombay), India.
While the Colonial period and its attendant constructs are generally
rejected and looked at as a bad memory, buildings constructed by
the British are considered worthy of conservation. This paper aims
to understand this apparent contradiction from the viewpoint of
memory and identity as a phenomenological construct.
An understanding of the ideas of identity used are with relation to
dwellings as written by three authors: the Norwegian architectural
historian and theorist, Christian Norberg-Schulz; of memory in
association to a house as explicated by French philosopher Gaston
Bachelard (1997); and of multiplicity of identities as proposed by
Indian economist, thinker and Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen as a
framework to understand the apparent contradiction mentioned
above.
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