M Mallika

HT4003

The studio comprised of three interconnected modules. The first module was a reading seminar intended to engage with the historiographic context of architectural production. A building biography of the Tinplate bungalow developed in the second module, explored questions of making and architectural representation vis-à-vis value in early 20th century Jamshedpur, by decoding specific details. The third module was the curation of an architectural catalogue. The catalogue investigated the intersection between technology, agency and climate in the architectural production of Jamshedpur between 1900-1920s using Jiat-Hwee Chang’s paper, A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience, as the theoretical framework.