Alison Smithson

In the manner of intrepid Victorian women traveller-diarists, Imprint of India is an elaborate collage of fiction and images drawn from memories of hot, dusty travels in India.

Depicting an ancient culture and landscape only recently over written by a familiar imperial crust, it effectively restates the concerns of its companion volume, <a href="http://php.aaschool.ac.uk/PUBLIC/AAPUBLICATIONS/backlist.php?item=242"">Climate Register</a> observing patterns and ways of inhabitation and the relationship between climate and the making of buildings.

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