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Bamboo and Cane Crafts of Northeast India is source bok for designers and architects. It is an outcome of extensive fieldwork, documentation and research on the bamboo and cane fraft traditions of a region inhabited by innumerable tribes and ethnic communities. Extensively illustrated, the bok analyses the inter-relation between stucture, form. material and function as represented in the material culture of the region, Local tribes have evolved numneous products, ranging from simple to complex and from small to the architectural, for their day-to-day needs. M.P. Rajan is an Industrial Designer and senior faculty at the National Indtitute of Design where he has developed and conducted courses in Geomentry, Design Methodologies, and Product & furniture Design. His interests are visual mathematics, structures, craft design and its contemporary significance in India and Information Technology. he chairs the IT activity at NID. Nilam Iyer, a practiving Industrial Designer has been a faculty at NID and has initiated the leather design studio at NID. Her interests are in design education, craft materials & design and Geometry. The late Ghanshyam Pandya was an architect with deep interest in traditions and form. A graduate in Architecture from Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, his interests included interior, Iandscape and exhibition design.
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