Editorial

Building materials have frequently been subtexts or recurring or incidental figures in various earlier articles of the ABE Journal. We have also featured contributions such as Christopher Cowell’s piece “The Kacchā-Pakkā Divide: Material, Space and Architecture in the Military Cantonments of British India (1765-1889),” (ABE 9-10) focusing on discursive categories stemming from building materials and construction methods that played profound roles in military built-environment in colonial Ind...