A great new book written by Maurice Mitchell of the London Met. University. Please find attached a PDF flyer for Learning from Delhi with a 20% discount code (plus contents list). The code will work until the end of February. The website page for the book is: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409401025

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Learning from Delhi
Dispersed Initiatives in Changing
Urban Landscapes
Edited by Shamoon Patwari and Bo Tang,
Written by Maurice Mitchell, London Metropolitan University, UK
‘This book is a powerful wake-up call to all architects. It
speaks about the meaning of architecture in circumstances
that appear very different to those with which we are
familiar in the West. The line of enquiry always revolves
around the question of “how might architecture improve
the way we live?” is a manifesto for an alternative form
...It
of architectural practice...a testament to the value of an
education – not a training – and undoubtedly equips
students with strategies that are increasingly relevant.
The reader is offered beautiful and mind blowingly
complicated plans of existing settlements that have been
surveyed, not copied and pasted. Evocatively shady interior
views are set into landscapes strewn with debris; all the
drawings inhabited by people. This is the landscape of
humanity, where architecture serves as a backdrop, not a
monument.’
– The Architectural Review
An invaluable theoretical and practical guide to ‘thinking global and acting local’. The book
is based on a ground-breaking course run by the London Metropolitan University School of
Architecture, in which students produce schemes from research undertaken during field trips
to India. It provides a comprehensive review of the course and of the schemes produced since
2002, and argues the value of linking practical projects with education in the studio.
January 2011 322 pages Hardback 978-1-4094-0102-5 £35.00 £28.00
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