Abstract
Human beings have a natural instinct for bio-climatic home building. Vernacular architecture potentially leverages on this ability while responding to the sociocultural and economic needs of a population. India is a peninsula with a long coastline. A predominantly warm country, India has about 80% of the land under composite and warm-humid climates. This chapter navigates through the bio-climatic vernacular architecture of various climatic zones of India, emphasizing the warm-humid zones. It also provides examples that imbibed the bio-climatic spirit in creating a modern vernacular.
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Swarna and Murali Chanduri of Claremont, CA, USA provided the funds used for the Marikal studies through a personal grant organized via Telugu Association of Los Angeles (TELSA), USA. Nidhi Kotak Doshi, Ravi Kumar, Reema Ghosh, and Ritu Ahal from India have generously supplied some of the images. I thank all of them.
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Indraganti, M. (2018). India: Bio-climatism in Vernacular Architecture. In: Kubota, T., Rijal, H., Takaguchi, H. (eds) Sustainable Houses and Living in the Hot-Humid Climates of Asia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8465-2_5
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