A Model House

Uttara Chauhan grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada, before moving back to India. A postgraduate in urban and regional planning, she has worked on many projects with multilateral, government and private organisations. She was part of a small team that implemented an innovative slum improvement project, which was listed by the United Nations Center for Human Settlements under its Global Best Practices List. As a Special Correspondent for Indian Architecture & Builder, one of India’s leading architectural publications, she wrote articles on major architectural projects, essays on urbanism, apart from a regular column on the theory and practice of architecture. Uttara has been on the Visiting Faculty at the School of Architecture in Ahmedabad, India, since 1992. She lives in Ahmedabad with her husband and son. A Model House is her first novel.