Author Archives: Siddharth Menon
Concrete & Boulder
This is a misguide assignment for GEOG 6742, a Cultural Geography Seminar by Professor Tim Oakes. The aim of the misguide assignment is to look at your place/landscape from a tourist gaze by a developing a cultural geography of practice in order to more fully understand the ways places/landscapes are represented and made. Some misguide […]
Himalayan Transformations
The following images were clicked by the author from a recent field visit to his research site in Kandwari village, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
Himalayan Materialities
The following images were clicked by the author from a recent field visit to his research site in Kandwari village, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
Himalayan Landscapes
The following images were clicked by the author from a recent field visit to his research site in Kandwari village, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
Center for Asian Studies Luncheon Series, CU Boulder
Built Environment Transformations in Rural India 2017.10.05 In this talk, I look at traditional knowledge and practices of building dwellings in the Kangra Valley of Himachal Pradesh. How has this knowledge been deployed over the centuries? How is this knowledge carried forward through the generations? These are some of the questions that I am […]
Global Encounters: India/South Asia and the West
Global Encounters: India/ South Asia and the West Fall 2016 Instructor: Sanjay Gautam
Architecture Work Sample (2016)
Below is a sample of my architecture work that I conducted as a professional architect in India from 2011 to 2016.
Earth House, Himachal Pradesh
Location: Village Chandpur, Block Baijnath, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh Building Type: Guest House Architect: Siddharth Menon Design Team: Pappu Kumar, Uddham Singh, Pratap Chand, Hansraj, Roshan Lal, Meher Chand, Om Prakash, Deepika Amonkar Castes, Crafts & Communities: Gaddi stone cutters, Chamaar carpenters, Lohaar carpenters, Pandit slate cutters, Thakur-Rana labour, Chowdhury masons, Patiyaal painters, Masand labour […]
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