Ateya Khorakiwala
Biographic Data
| ID | 6644031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ateya Khorakiwala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ateya |
| FAMILY NAME | Khorakiwala |
| SIGNATURE | KHORAKIWALA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3707-7859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Black Carpet of Bitumen
January 01 2023 A Black Carpet of Bitumen Ateya Khorakiwala Ateya Khorakiwala Ateya Khorakiwala is an architectural historian and an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She researches India in the developmental decades, focusing on the aesthetics and materiality of its postcolonial infrastructure and ecological landscapes. Khorakiwala is coeditor of the rece…
Solar Systems for the Rural Body
This article considers how solar energy discourse in the 1970s othered rural bodies in India. In the 1970s, proponents of solar energy seized the opportunity provided by the oil crisis to argue for their technology as a clean, cheap, abundant, and universal alternate. The community characterized solar energy as a technical problem, yet in house design, they relied on subjective parameters like thermal comfort. Investigating the designs of solar c…
An Archive of Development
This article argues that a fantasy of Indian road infrastructure was archived in official documentary films. It analyzes two 1960s road construction projects through three corresponding Films Division of India documentaries, which represented India's northern borders. These show how the playfulness of film, the unruliness of infrastructure, and the precariousness of the border and its imaginary have meant that even propaganda films with set narra…
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Solar Systems for the Rural Body
This article considers how solar energy discourse in the 1970s othered rural bodies in India. In the 1970s, proponents of solar energy seized the opportunity provided by the oil crisis to argue for their technology as a clean, cheap, abundant, and universal alternate. The community characterized solar energy as a technical problem, yet in house design, they relied on subjective parameters like thermal comfort. Investigating the designs of solar c…
An Archive of Development
This article argues that a fantasy of Indian road infrastructure was archived in official documentary films. It analyzes two 1960s road construction projects through three corresponding Films Division of India documentaries, which represented India's northern borders. These show how the playfulness of film, the unruliness of infrastructure, and the precariousness of the border and its imaginary have meant that even propaganda films with set narra…
A Black Carpet of Bitumen
January 01 2023 A Black Carpet of Bitumen Ateya Khorakiwala Ateya Khorakiwala Ateya Khorakiwala is an architectural historian and an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She researches India in the developmental decades, focusing on the aesthetics and materiality of its postcolonial infrastructure and ecological landscapes. Khorakiwala is coeditor of the rece…
Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works)