Published-Classic Courtyards

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I really don't know why courtyards fascinated me from childhood and they still..These fascination lead me to a point when I plan my home now,incorporating these spaces at many levels,rooms less and these spaces more..Many thanks to all the great architects who have influenced me like Geoffrey Bawa,Bill Bensley,Laurie Baker,Revathi Kamath .Those amazing spaces have influenced my life in many ways.The dream of starting a decor blog started with the love of courtyards.The Mangalore tiled roofs ,the rain that flowed into the courtyards,the light and shades,the light that fell into the room at various times of the day... I can say so much ,they interest me in various levels and I have seen many a courtyards till now.I have travelled so much in search of courtyards and their spaces </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Savitha Karthik of Deccan Herald contacted me for an article about the courtyards,I readily agreed.I had researched much about the courtyards and had enough images in hand.As written in the article,courtyards are getting revived these days by architects and they are finding ways to incorporate these spaces and giving different meanings to it at different levels...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZAIZoatMtIjhRtUSQ9bBsSb-JEIz49pLrOeRgpvfNlZTIin8bH8GCwhxkOR-f9OfVDoqzRZk8VfL8v_8uQ7pmDBDwrrXdZhp5Ocy4USVqSAVDngbFVrXh6z7YBTLRppUMqFWCy7Y6sGM/s1600/kerala-traditional+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; 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margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Traditonal Kerala houses and courtyards within them</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzqhgrHhhn0jMHEqHhMbdrG48KyXveqUvAvN-9Fp9a2V4uA3iM8sukGVm6x4XArb4Qd3iv9xY6e_HtZgoC14LRx1dMQEi34A-AK8u7e5bdNpRJ9udFFZY6TE3mzzcbFrts-fDEILnpiiU/s1600/ahm-haveli-pols+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzqhgrHhhn0jMHEqHhMbdrG48KyXveqUvAvN-9Fp9a2V4uA3iM8sukGVm6x4XArb4Qd3iv9xY6e_HtZgoC14LRx1dMQEi34A-AK8u7e5bdNpRJ9udFFZY6TE3mzzcbFrts-fDEILnpiiU/s640/ahm-haveli-pols+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">courtyard inside the MG Haveli,Ahmedabad</td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv9gkgsC3OmRakIo2xTDojv9Sa-6L-Y0uP6ageKCEbm_HHko0jBC7HCkf6iyM-tyE3hgSMA7Fdep1hYc33h-YktKABeFN6XXT24NdkeqxSyxNq0LuDSJaFi9PpqJhup2sghgjeo6oxsm0/s1600/fatehpur-haveli+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv9gkgsC3OmRakIo2xTDojv9Sa-6L-Y0uP6ageKCEbm_HHko0jBC7HCkf6iyM-tyE3hgSMA7Fdep1hYc33h-YktKABeFN6XXT24NdkeqxSyxNq0LuDSJaFi9PpqJhup2sghgjeo6oxsm0/s640/fatehpur-haveli+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">inside the Nadine Le Prince Havei,Fatehpur</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh551JOCddBd5wwkd3JnwsXDgwkeNlJCSz1krYQrjOGMzpiDzcbx_YkaBYGP9Cs9mdgAhDYIoHMgdBxJDhpRK2mbHcCiWbhZYMs1yRkVn6JoryiQJ4iCURsNd6PzXSS0re8wSTXQo4IXRI/s1600/jaipur-haveli+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh551JOCddBd5wwkd3JnwsXDgwkeNlJCSz1krYQrjOGMzpiDzcbx_YkaBYGP9Cs9mdgAhDYIoHMgdBxJDhpRK2mbHcCiWbhZYMs1yRkVn6JoryiQJ4iCURsNd6PzXSS0re8wSTXQo4IXRI/s640/jaipur-haveli+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">inside the Diggi palace,Jaipur</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidwbSchGPe8ygKRQRCcY7SrpjNZPtZdaErt0T1sH6-mGQxkNnaPSfOZSGRMmAtfBjniTtST2kmEPpIBMvSaqdzp86qYHmZHIidk-WPrsHPW4iT0IlG1dMKfhiMFKyaG4aN6ICVYn3GAKw/s1600/mandawa-haveli+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidwbSchGPe8ygKRQRCcY7SrpjNZPtZdaErt0T1sH6-mGQxkNnaPSfOZSGRMmAtfBjniTtST2kmEPpIBMvSaqdzp86qYHmZHIidk-WPrsHPW4iT0IlG1dMKfhiMFKyaG4aN6ICVYn3GAKw/s640/mandawa-haveli+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">inside the twin HAveli in MAndawa</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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Published-Classic Courtyards

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