Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and Contemporary Practices 印度的女建筑师与现代主义：叙事与当代实践

南亚的建筑学研究在该学科的规范历史中继续忽略了女性。本书试图重述女性建筑师的故事，这些女性建筑师的职业生涯几乎与殖民地和后殖民时期印度现代主义的发展平行。在没有档案的挑战下，将他们的经历写进主流建筑史的叙述中，揭示了七个开拓性的女性，她们打破了男性堡垒，从1940年代开始超越了那个时代的传统界限。作者还考察了28种当代实践，以证明印度的建筑现代主义是如何通过妇女的贡献而形成的。本书采用的格式将社会，专业和传记因素整合到一个生产性帐户中；使各种设计概念多元化；并通过更广泛的活动（包括教学法，指导和行动主义）重新定义了女性“工作”的观念。提到女性所面临的挑战，即使设计师在全球化背景下的跨国环境中迁徙，该研究仍在不同的地区环境中庆祝实践。
本书以插图和照片的形式进行了广泛地说明，将成为南亚现代主义叙事中的一个里程碑，并将吸引建筑，性别研究，现代印度历史和社会学的学者和研究人员。
Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the narrative of mainstream architectural history within the challenge of non-existent archives, it sheds light on seven pioneering women who broke male bastions to go beyond the traditional confines of the era from the 1940s onwards. The author also examines 28 contemporary practices to demonstrate the ways in which architectural modernism in India was shaped by the contribution of women. The book uses a format that weaves together social, professional and biographical factors into a productive account; pluralizes various concepts of design; and redefines the idea of ‘work’ of women through a greater range of activities, including pedagogy, mentoring and activism. Alluding to challenges faced by women, the study celebrates practices in diverse regional settings even as the designers move in transnational contexts in an increasingly globalizing India.
Extensively illustrated, featuring drawings and photographs, this book will be a milestone in the modernist narrative of South Asia and will be of interest to scholars and researchers of architecture, gender studies, modern Indian history and sociology.