Today, Sunitha Kondur and Bijoy Ramachandran from Bangalore visited the Bibliotheca Orientalis and browsed our extensive section on Indian architecture.
“We visited the Bibliotheca Orientalis in Trani in May this year. The library is an incredible repository of information on architecture, planning and history of the Islamic world. The collection is organised by region and contains a large number of out-of-print historical editions including gazetteers and survey documents. Apart from books, the library also contains Prof. Petruccioli’s vast slide collection from the 1960s onwards recording his visits to places like Aleppo – serving as records of a time now long forgotten. As part of his long career as Professor, he has conducted numerous studies and measured drawings of important historical sites across the world, including the first modern measured drawings of Fatehpur Sikri. These invaluable drawings and reports are available for study here. We were fortunate to have had a chance to spend some time at the library and hope to come again for an extended visit to mine its vast resources.
The collection is housed in a beautifully restored palace on the main square in Trani – a fitting place for Prof. Petruccioli’s immense collection and contribution”.
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Directed by Sunitha Kondur and Bijoy Ramachandran, Hundredhands is a multidisciplinary design studio whose work draws on a keen sense of the urban. In their projects, often represented in patiently executed analytical drawings, the architects have redirected their focus on the urban context by returning to the questions of scale, character, spatial and visual impact, and remaking the public domain, all of which is so vital to the tempestuous urbanism of Indian cities.