COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE
India
British Indian Architecture
•Major
cities which were colonized were Bombay, Agra, Delhi, Karachi, Bhopal , Nagpur
•It
is considered as Gothic revival and it also had an amalgamation of Indian and
Indo Islamic Architecture.
the Victoria memorial,Calcutta by William Emerson
the Victoria memorial,Calcutta by William Emerson
Victoria terminus (chhatrapati shivaji terminus) by Frederick William Stevens, Axel Haig
Buildings under Colonial Architecture
•Railway Stations
•Courts
•Colleges
•Hospitals
•Post Office
Writer’s
building, KOLKATA
Lutyen’s Delhi
•A
complete city designed for British Government Officials in India by Edwin Lutyen and Herbert Baker.
•Viceroy
house, which further became the Rashtrapati Bhawan, has dome which is
inspired by Stupa.
•Connaught
Place, which was the commercial centre for the British Government then and was
designed in Radial Settlement pattern.
•
Secretariat building and Parliament house are the only structure designed by
Herbert Baker.
Rashtrapati Bhawan by EDWIN LUTYEN
North Block Secretariat Building by HERBERT BAKER
Parade
Road
•The
new Parade Road now lead to India Gate, which actually was a war memorial
gateway having names of 82000 soldiers who fought in World War II.
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