Work
Aranya Low-Cost Housing
Explore in the Atlas →Doshi's site-and-services township provides serviced plots and incremental cores for tens of thousands, letting residents build and grow their own homes within a humane, mixed-income urban structure.
Dwelling Settlement Collectivity
Details
- Type
- Project
- Location
- Indore, India
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- ObservationLived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophicalSouth asian
Connections
- articulates Incremental Housing
- exemplifies Critical Regionalism
Referenced by
- Balkrishna Doshi authored
- Alejandro Aravena associated with
Sources
- James Steele. The Complete Architecture of Balkrishna Doshi: Rethinking Modernism for the Developing World. Thames & Hudson, 1998.
- Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Aranya Community Housing (Aga Khan Award for Architecture). AKDN, 1995.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Aranya Low-Cost Housing." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/aranya-housing/. Accessed July 17, 2026.