Architecture and media cultures
This theme considers how the printed, audio and visual press operate as sites of architectural
discourse as well as means of syncretising and popularising architectural and building knowledge.
From professional and trade journals such as The Bombay Builder and MARG and A+D to treatises
and pattern books, and from cinematic narratives to video archives, such as those of the National Film
Development Corporation and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting: How do media cultures of
the Indian Ocean rim straddle the representational and built aspects of architecture? We particularly
encourage new and emerging research engaging with vernacular languages, often overlooked as
sites of both professional and popular architectural discourse.
Ishita Shah Priya Jain
(Theme director) (Theme coordinator)