Documentation and research
Reading buildings
Sketches, mapping and measured drawings made in the field. Documentation is how I learnt to read a building: its structure, its materials and the lives it holds.
Kailasa Temple, Ellora
A free-standing, two-storey temple carved from a single mass of basalt in the eighth century, documented through on-site sketches and drawn studies.
Rumsu Village, Manali
A Himalayan village mapped for sun, wind, topography and services, and a study of how Kath-Kuni houses are built to handle snow, cold and earthquakes.