Gauri Bharat is associate professor and Program Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. She completed her Ph.D. on conceptions of space and place among Santals, an indigenous community in eastern India in 2015, which was the culmination of a fifteen-year long interest in indigenous habitations and published as 'In Forest, Field, and Factory: Adivasi Habitations Through Twentieth Century India' (SAGE - Yoda Press 2019). She continues to work on the architectural and material culture of indigenous communities, currently initiating research on nomadic pastoralists. Her current research has developed in two key areas. The first focus area is lived histories, where she explores how built environments in the past were shaped by and in turn shaped the individual and collective lives of people. There are currently three publications in the works, exploring neighbourhoods and streets of Ahmedabad as socio-spatial formations. The second major focus area is histories of making. This consolidated with a grant from the Graham Foundation in 2019 for a project on the history of reinforced concrete use in the Indian subcontinent