Gokulam, assembled from 100 dilapidated traditional Kerala homes
The Hindu
Famous for his tableau at the Cochin Carnival parade, V Venu talks about Gokulam, a house based on the principles of ancient Kerala architecture that took him four years to complete
Dressed in orange overalls, V. Venu is testing an old gramophone when I walk into his workshop on a clear sunny day. He places the needle gingerly on a moving 78 rotations-per-minute record and the machine breaks into a beautiful old Malayalam song.
“I am not an engineer or an architect,” says Venu as he leads me back to the entrance of Gokulam, a traditional three-storeyed Kerala house that took him four years to build.

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