book

Steps to Water: The Ancient Stepwells of India

Livingston, Morna

Princeton Architectural Press, 2002

water infrastructure precedent
Vernacular water infrastructure as architecture; precedent for integrating water systems into public space

Livingston’s documentation of India’s ancient stepwells provides a precedent for the principle that water infrastructure should be visible and integrated into public space rather than buried — cisterns as shaded gathering spaces, pump houses as community centers.