A Place in the Shade: The New Landscape and Other Essays
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Charles Correa
Penguin Books India,
256 Pages with 187 Pages of illustrations, Rs 1199
“You cannot look at cities without wandering into architecture on the one hand and politics on the other.” A Place in the Shade explores architectural and urban issues in India, from the house as a machine for dealing with our often hostile climate, to the metaphysical role of architecture as a model of the cosmos. This reflective, provocative and consistently readable collection of essays argues that our habitat must respond to the overriding parameters of climate, culture and financial resources
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