A coffee table book featuring some of India’s most striking residences promises to be a visual treat.
There was a time when a house was meant to be four walls and a roof above our heads; a shelter from the forces of nature and that’s about it. Any homeowner today would laugh at that description because houses today are more an expressions of our likes, tastes and personal choice than any other possession.
Chronicling this is a coffee table book 50 Beautiful Houses in India published by content and communications group White Flag Media & Communications. The book aims to give readers a reference point to view a house in terms of its aesthetics and technical finesse.
The content for this, has been put together in consultation with 39 top architects and interior designers from all around the country. Houses have been judged keeping in mind not only their aesthetic appeal but also their contemporariness and design innovations.
“It is primarily a book for people who want to build. It is nice to see a spectrum of effort by young designers and the transition of work produced in the urban and rural settings,” says Sandeep Khosla, founder and principal architect at Khosla Associates, one of Bangalore’s leading architecture and interiors firms. Khosla is one of the architects who have been consulted for this book.
Design in Indian housing has undergone a sea change in the past few decades, agree experts. Whereas once Indian dwellings were all about functionality, form has increasingly become more and more important. Nowhere is this more visible than Bangalore, where old bungalows dating from the ore-Independence era led the way to gracious stand-alone houses that are a treat for the eyes.
All the houses in this book are bungalows and stand alone homes, inform the publishers, and no less than 11 Bangalore bungalows are featured in the book.
“The challenge in designing any house is seeing the bigger picture and not getting lost in the details. Also, architects need to have clear communication with clients so that expectations and the overall design ideas match,” says Nisha Mathew Ghosh, co-founder of Matthew and Ghosh Architects based in Koramangala. Ghosh is also among the architects who have contributed to putting this book together.
This 420 page book features 485 exclusive, self-explanatory pictures of one-of-a-kind houses. It also includes detailed design plans and includes holiday homes in Lonavala, a second home at an inherited property in Haridwar as well as residential houses in the Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and of course Bangalore.
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