TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalvi, Mustansir 
TI  - Past as present: Pedagogical practices in architecture at the Bombay School of Art
SN  - 978-93-81444-13-9
U1  - 720.7 DDC23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Mumbai
PB  - Sir J J College of Architecture
KW  - ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION (AR-EDU)
KW  - ACHYUT PURUSHOTATTAM KANVINDE; J J SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE; EXIBITION
N2  - Pedagogy at the Bombay School of Art found its
momentum with John Griffith, former Painting Master,
taking over as the Head of the School. From 1880 to
1895, Griffith promoted the documentation and
understanding of the Local. His grand project (that he
led from the front), the decade-long exercise to
document the murals of the Western Indian cave temples
of Ajanta, would form the template on which much of
later the learning would happen after. In a school of art
where painting, sculpture and architecture were all part of
a simultaneous process, documentation and drawing
became the cornerstones
ER  -