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By Vikram Bhatt and Peter Scriver. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 1990. Pp. 222, 83 drawings, 268 plates, 103 in color, map. $45.

Trying to present diverse contemporary architecture is a difficult task at the best of times, when there is an absence of "critical distance" (to use a Framptonesque phrase). And Indian architectures--I use the plural advisedly--have many cultural roots, climates, materials and building traditions that make this task even more formidable. It is, however, the one that the authors of this book attempt and largely succeed in achieving.

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