Gautam Bhatia is one of the most famous architecture author

Author

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s in India. He is known for telling architecture tales humorously. He has written Punjabi Baroque and Comic Century.

He graduated in Fine Arts and earned a Master's in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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. Early in his career he worked with Laurie Baker

Laurie Baker

Laurence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker 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...

. He is based in New Delhi. As a critic and satirist, he writes columns for Outlook

Outlook (magazine)

Outlook is one of India's four top-selling English weekly newsmagazines. Like many other Indian magazines, it is reluctant to reveal its circulation, but the 2007 National Readership Survey suggested 1.5 million copies...

 magazine and Indian Express newspaper, and his columns have also appeared in New York Times

Works

• Punjabi Baroque and Other Memories of Architecture, by Gautam Bhatia, Kundanika Kapadia. Penguin Books, 1994. ISBN 0140240756.
• Silent Spaces and Other Stories of Architecture. Penguin Books, 1994. ISBN 0140246096.
• Malaria dreams and other visions of architecture. Penguin Books, 1996. ISBN 014026213X
• Punchtantra: parables for the 21st century. Penguin Books, 1998. ISBN 0140271163.
• A Short History of Everything: A Novel. HarperCollins Publishers India, 1998. ISBN 817223340X.
• Laurie Baker, life, work, writings, Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO). Viking, 1991.
• Eternal Stone: Great Buildings of India, Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0140291598.
• A Moment in Architecture. Tulika Books, 2002.
• Chandigarh: The Making of an Indian City.
• Comic Century: An Unreliable History of the 20th Century, Penguin India, 2005. ISBN 014303140-6313.
• Whitewash : Tabloid That Is About The India That Isn't. The Viveka Foundation. 2007. ISBN 8188251313.

Further reading

• New (and Improved?) Delhi New York Times
• Architecture, Without Style Art India
• Designing in the slowdown Mint
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External links

• Gautam Bhatia columns at Indian Express.
• Gautam Bhatia columns at Outlook
  Outlook (magazine)
  Outlook is one of India's four top-selling English weekly newsmagazines. Like many other Indian magazines, it is reluctant to reveal its circulation, but the 2007 National Readership Survey suggested 1.5 million copies...
  
  
• Gautam Bhatia columns at Mint
  Mint (newspaper)
  Mint is a business newspaper from HT Media Ltd, launched in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal on 1 February 2007. It is a premium business news publication aimed at decision makers and policy makers of the country and it is the first newspaper in India to be published in the Berliner...