Indian Architects: Laurie Baker, Ranjit Naik, Ambarish Srivastava, Nari Gandhi, Samuel Swinton Jacob, Joseph Allen Stein, Charles Correa  (English, Paperback, LLC Books, Source Wikipedia)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Laurie Baker, Ranjit Naik, Christopher Charles Benninger, Ambarish Srivastava, Sunita Kohli, Nari Gandhi, Samuel Swinton Jacob, Charles Correa, Joseph Allen Stein, Hafeez Contractor, Sheila Sri Prakash, B. V. Doshi, Gautam Bhatia, K. Jaisim, Ashok Bihari Lall, Eugene Pandala, Prasanna Pandian, Raj Rewal, Sheo Dan Mal, Charles Wyatt, Piloo Mody, Bhai Ram Singh, Achyut Kanvinde, Pierre Jeanneret, Shashi Prabhu, Satish Gujral, Anant Raje, Henry Irwin, Himanshu Parikh, Claude Batley, G. Shankar, Yahya Merchant, Neehar Raina, Gundan Anivaritachari, Rahul Mehrotra, List of Indian architects. Excerpt: Laurence Wilfred Laurie Baker (2 March 1917 - 1 April 2007) was an award-winning British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and for his unique space utilisation and simple but beautiful aesthetic sensibility. In time he made a name for himself both in sustainable architecture as well as in organic architecture. He went to India in 1945 in part as a missionary and since then lived and worked in India for over 50 years. He obtained Indian citizenship in 1989 and resided in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala, since 1970, where he later set up an organization called COSTFORD (Centre of Science and Technology for Rural Development), for spreading awareness for low cost housing. In 1990, the Government of India awarded him with the Padma Shri in recognition of his meritorious service in the field of architecture. Baker was born into a staunch Methodist family, the youngest son of Birmingham Gas Department's chief accountant, Wilfred Baker and Emily. His elder brothers, Leonard and Norman, were both studying law, and he had a married sister, Edna. In his teens Baker began to question what religion meant to him and decided to become a Quaker, since it was clos...