CEPT University Press Friday launched the second revised version of ‘Architecture & Independence: The Search for Identity – India 1880 to 1980’, a guide written by Jon Lang, Madhavi Desai and Miki Desai that examines the event of structure in India within the context of the political battle for Independence.
The guide traces the event of architectural occupation and patterns of architectural kind within the century following the formation of the Indian National Congress within the Eighties.
Jon Lang is a professor emeritus at University of South Wales the place he headed the School of Architecture and taught within the Masters of Urban Development and Design Program.
Madhavi Desai is an impartial researcher, trainer and author, she was an adjunct member of the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. The third writer, Miki Desai retired as a professor from the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad after instructing there from 1981 to 2014.