Women Architects in India by Mary N. Woods

Author:Mary N. Woods
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

BUILDING IN DELHI

Kamath’s interest in mud architecture is not confined to her work in rural settings. In the late 1980s she began to work in Hauz Khas, one of Delhi’s historic urban villages. The site of a deer park, as well as Islamic monuments dating back to the fourteenth century, Hauz Khas swelled with modest homes, stores, and workshops of refugees after partition. Forty years later, its real estate was both desirable and affordable for “ethnic look” designers of fashion, furnishings, and art objects. Finding an affinity between Kamath’s mud architecture and their approach to design, they commissioned boutiques from her. Now Hauz Khas was suddenly chic; and art galleries, restaurants, and residences for the wealthy soon followed the design stores there.103 Nominated for an Aga Khan Award, Kamath’s Tomar House was part of the gentrification of Hauz Khas.

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