Kashmiri Architecture: From Syncretism to Dilapidated Edifices
Srinagar, Aug. 31 -- 'The transition from a mud and wood house to cement and brick at the expense of vernacular architecture has consumed the valley in its grip, although this step was in direction for structural stability.'
By Salika Rashid
THE aforementioned lines of Frank Gehry, a Canadian-born American architect, profoundly enunciate the primacy of architecture. Architecture not only aids in illustrating myriad facets of time and history but also assists in discerning the trajectory of its pattern. It has perpetually demanded care and maintenance because art has to survive in order to demonstrate the past to the present.
Rajeev Bhargava, a noted Indian political theorist, has aptly propounded, that it "contributes to and enhances o...
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