Abstract :
At a time when a wide range of building materials is available around the world, the decision to use locally sourced stone in India often extends beyond the pragmatic. As Reinhold Martin explains, a particular choice of stone can potentially set off a complex string of associations with geopolitical connotations. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords :
Kenneth Frampton , Local grey granite , Indian Institute of Management (IIM) , sandstone cladding , Charles Correa , Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) , red sandstone , Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker , Secretariat , Indo-Saracenic architecture , Raj Rewal , James Fergusson and Swinton Jacob , Mogul architecture , Jawahar Kala Kendra , local/global. , Sanjay Mohe
