Research Team

Dhara Patel, Ph.D.

  • Books

    • 2024: “Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans.” London, Routledge.

    • 2018: “High-rise havens: socio-spatial boundaries in the designs of new luxury high-rise condominiums in neo-liberal India”. (PhD Doctoral dissertation), University of Melbourne.

    Journal Articles

    • 2024: “There is No There There, MUSEUM MMK, Frankfurt, 13 April—29 September 2024 : report.”
      In: Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Taylor and Francis

    • 2023: with Inal-Cekic, Tuba Urban Narratives of Migration: Dwelling Practises and Identity Formation among Indian and Turkish Highly Skilled Migrants (HSM) in Frankfurt and Berlin.”
      In: Dwelling Together. Urban Housing, Neighborliness and Multilocal Homemaking., Berlin.

    • 2017: “Evolution of Elite high-rise condominiums in India: from global to neo-colonial?”, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 4, pp. 456–478, UK, Routledge.

    • 2015: “Negotiating Identities in the Designs for New Luxury Condominiums in Neo-liberal India”, International Journal of Design in Society, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 15–29, Illinois, USA, Common Ground publishing.

    Conference Proceedings

    • 2015: “Negotiation of identities in the emergent cosmopolitan Indian landscape: analyses of the designs of new luxury high-rise apartments in neo-liberal India.” Paper presented at the Living and Learning: Research for a Better Built Environment, 49th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Melbourne, Australia. http://anzasca.net/2015-conference-papers/

    • 2014: “New cosmopolitans: Gated Communities in India”, The Architect, Journal of The Sri Lanka institute of Architects, Vol. 115, Issue 2, pp. 64–66.

Research Assistant

Student M.Sc. Architecture at
TU Darmstadt

hiwi-patel@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de

Carla Joraschky

Former

Research Assistant

Student M.A. Sociology at
TU Darmstadt

Jonas Wilzbach

Contact

Postal Address:
Institut für Soziologie - Stadt- und Raumsoziologie
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Residenzschloss, Marktplatz 15
D-64283 Darmstadt