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Uttara Chauhan grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada, before
moving back to India. A postgraduate in urban and
regional planning, she has worked on many projects with
multilateral, government and private organisations. She
was part of a small team that implemented an innovative
slum improvement project, which was listed by the United
Nations Center for Human Settlements under its Global
Best Practices List. As a Special Correspondent for
Indian Architecture & Builder, one of India's leading
architectural publications, she wrote articles on major
architectural projects, essays on urbanism, apart from a
regular column on the theory and practice of
architecture. Uttara has been on the Visiting Faculty at
the School of Architecture in Ahmedabad, India, since
1992. She lives in Ahmedabad with her husband and son. A
Model House is her first novel.
A Model House
Nanda, a young Indo-American in quest of her Indian
roots. The diary of an unsung student leader of the 1974
Navnirman Movement. NGOs and the "game" of development.
A bit of Nanda, loving and losing. Set in the small town
of Mahatmanagar in Gujarat, Nanda's story moves through
the red brick walls of the design school, ABCD, and its
stiff rules and twisted vision; the gossipy corridors of
Lakeview Apartments; a make-believe home with Raghu the
model-maker; and the search for a perfect house beyond
his models and her own moorings. |
