QUEST for a SPACE: Realms of Asian Architecture,Culture,Heritage

by Kishore Kumar K

Experience of space in the physical, emotional and intellectual planes; seen in the contemporary context of Kerala, Indian life and Environment. A quest inside me and outside world as a building designer as I practiced in home town Kerala and worked in other cities of India. Hope this writing may entertain any enthusiast who turns this side of the globe and search for South Indian or particularly Kerala Context related studies; useful for Research scholars in Architecture, Material culture, South Asian studies etc in academic sector also.The attempt here is to unfold the images that imprinted on my mind matrix during my personal experience of living, working, travel, etc and to narrate the associated memories in a Kerala mind set.The ‘Space’ referred here is the living space that an individual\family seeks in a built up environment to dwell or the public space that he has to share in the process of community living. The search here is to seek not only the physical but also the metaphysical nature of space.The space experienced in the context of traditional culture of this land and the new marketing culture that interface as a globalization phenomena.

28 pages, Paperback

Published December 21, 2018