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Natasha Kimmet
History of Art and Architecture
Architectural Adaptation and Transformation in the Western Himalaya: An Analysis of Vernacular Architecture Traditions in Nako Village, Upper Kinnaur (India)
Supervisor: Univ. Prof. Dr. Deborah Klimburg-Salter
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Natasha is a doctoral candidate working in the field of the History of Art and Architecture of the Western Himalayas. Her doctoral thesis examines historical and contemporary vernacular architecture traditions in Nako village in the Upper Kinnaur district of northern India. She is conducting a typological and chronological study of the material and social dimensions of Nako’s domestic architecture in order to address categorical issues of definition (regionalism, authenticity, and identity formation) and to provide a foundation for future architectural preservation and development in the region. Natasha has recently published articles in Orientations and in the proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the EurASEAA. She received her B.A. from Bates College (2007) in the History of Art and Visual Culture with a minor in Asian Studies and completed her M.A. at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (2010) in the History of Art and Archaeology.
