Laurie Baker was born in Birmingham, England in 1917. He graduated from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design with architecture at the age of 20. He moved to India in 1945, and was initially a part of the World Leprosy Mission, which aimed at the conversion of once used asylums into hospitals which would shelter the people suffering from the disease.  In a meeting with Mahatma Gandhi that happened in 1943, Gandhi told Baker that his knowledge of western architecture would be of very little help in India, where the rural areas needed more attention than the cities. Gandhi gave Baker his idea of building houses, saying that the materials needed to build a house should be acquired from within 5 miles of the site. This idea was to have a great impact on the architect s life a few years down the line.  During his architectural career in India, Baker became renowned for building beautiful houses with local materials. These low-cost houses were aimed at clients from the lower class and the lower-middle class. To further spread awareness about cost-effective housing in India, he founded the Center of Science and Technology for Rural Development. The Government of India recognized Baker s outstanding contributions to the country s architecture by awarding him the Padma Shri in 1990.  This book, Laurie Baker: Life, Works And Writings, delves deep into Baker s life and gives the readers a comprehensive view of him.

Laurie Baker

Biographies & Memoirs

Bhatia, Gautam

Arts & Literature

India Penguin

Punjabi baroque and other memories of architecture

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Penguin??Books

Reflections as a tourist and architect, views on India's architectural legacy. a sensitive, intelligent overview, with a few illustrations. An insider's view of public architecture-ancient monuments and contemporary landmarks

Silent Spaces-In Memory of Architecture

Literature & Fiction

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA PVT.LTD.

Offend, Shock, or Disturb is a comprehensive examination of free speech under the Indian Constitution. It explores Indian free speech jurisprudence from a doctrinal, comparative, and philosophical perspective. Taking as its point of departure the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of speech and expression-Articles 19(1)(a) and 19(2) of the Constitution of India-the book discusses, clause by clause, the development of law from colonial times to present-day controversies.Issues relating to public order, sedition, obscenity and pornography, hate speech, film and online censorship, privacy and defamation, the contempt of court, the nature of speech and the relationship between free speech and economic structure, and the inter-relationships between them have been comprehensively examined.As free speech campaigns gain intensity by the day, the book presents the myriad understandings and limitations of the free speech law, and suggests possible pathways for the future.

Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution

Administrative Law

Oxford University Press

Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution (OIP) (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Laurie Baker, life, work, writings

VIKING

Horizontal Rights: An Institutional Approach

Specialties

Hart Publishing

A renowned&nbsp;architect&nbsp;and artist on&nbsp;how public&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;in our cities&nbsp;has lost&nbsp;contact with&nbsp;the lives of&nbsp;the common&nbsp;people.Behind the seemingly ordinary life of a practising architect lies a whole host of non-professional impulses that give shape to buildings.&nbsp;Stories of Storeys: Art, Architecture and the City&nbsp;is about these impulses and conditions--social, literate, personal and political--which are expressed, but often ignored in architecture. Bhatia&nbsp;looks at the ordinary, physical, visible and tactile involvement of our urban environment and the way it affects, communicates with, or influences us. An all-inclusive sociology of architecture, the book draws on the social life of some of architecture's role players, people whose peculiar demands on design have come to characterize the building environment of our times, and times that are characterized by this progressive isolation of architecture from the society of common people. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Stories of Storeys: Art, Architecture and the City

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Unsealed Covers: A Decade of the Constitution, the Courts and the State

HarperCollins India

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