In search of a visual language in interiors and architecture
At college, we were taught to admire the modern attempts to design. Modernism justified functional parameters and postmodern attempts looked only intellectual attempts. It took almost 10 years for me to come out of this disconnected view of architecture and build a faith in my own understanding of our own architecture. Our traditional houses had a visual language laid out for us. Its planning had basis in Vaastu but i want to stress more on the visual language of our homes during the times when our grand parents lived. I will briefly explain my grand fathers house in my village called Asundi. I am greeted by a simple elevation, white walls with one main door and 2 small windows (its a hot dry region of north Karnataka. The entrance has a "katte" where my uncle and aunt, now my father love to sit and talk in the pleasant evenings. The main door has a wooden frame (hochalu, and the entrance and hochalu is hand drawn with rangolis. The entrance usually has image or symbol of the...
