Chida-Razvi, Mehreen. "Resituating Mughal Architecture in the Persianate...
This Editorial Essay introduces the importance and need for the research collected in this Special Issue. Beginning with a definition of ‘Persianate’, the space that the Mughals occupied within this...
View ArticleO’Kane, Bernard. "Mughal Tilework: Derivative or Original?" South Asian...
Although concentrating on Mughal tilework, this paper also discusses its predecessors elsewhere in the Islamic world, particularly in Iran, Central Asia, and Sultanate India. A brief survey of the...
View ArticleWescoat, James L.. "‘In the Centre of the Map…’: Reflecting on Marshall...
To resituate early Mughal architecture within a Persianate context, this paper considers the three axes of geography, scale, and meaning. After introducing this conceptual framework, we turn to...
View ArticleKavuri-Bauer, Santhi. "The Impact of Akhlaq-i Nasiri on the Forms and Spaces...
In this article, I examine the structures and spatial dynamics of Fatehpur Sikri to show how the overall design of the Mughal capital city was informed by Islamic philosophy and ethical texts known as...
View ArticleEmami, Farshid. "Royal Assemblies and Imperial Libraries: Polygonal Pavilions...
This article examines the architectural form and potential functions of two royal buildings: the Sher Mandal and the Guldasta pavilion. An octagonal tower located in the Purana Qilʿa in Delhi, the Sher...
View ArticleChida-Razvi, Mehreen. "From Function to Form: Chini-khana in Safavid and...
Undertaking a comparative examination of a particular decorative form in the architecture of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Persianate world, this paper briefly introduces the appearance of...
View ArticleHosseini, Sahar. "Safavid and Mughal Urban Bridges: Visual and Embodied...
Among the praiseworthy features of Isfahan, European travellers who visited the city throughout the seventeenth century admired the Khājū and Allāhvirdīkhān Bridges, particularly the galleries that...
View ArticleRehman, Abdul. "Garden of Nobility: Placing Ali Mardan Khan’s Baradari at...
Ali Mardan Khan, one the most important Persian nobles of Shah Jahan’s reign, was a significant contributor to the field of architecture and landscape design. His life history has been adequately...
View ArticleWaraich, Saleema. "A City Besieged and a Love Lamented: Representations of...
After the devastation of Delhi in the eighteenth century, a new genre of Urdu poetry (shahrashob, ‘the disturbed city’) emerged, lamenting the fallen city and simultaneously marking the displacement of...
View ArticleNilufar, Farida. "Architecture of Pakistan Time in Bangladesh since 1947 to...
In 1947 the partition of British India gave birth to the state named Pakistan and its Eastern Province later became a sovereign state named Bangladesh. This part of the write up will narrate the...
View ArticleSane, Prajakta, and Maryam Gusheh. ""Form and Design" for India Achyut...
Amongst documents stored at Achyut Kanvinde's Delhi office, a box file holds a thick batch of the architect's written commentaries and essays. One of India's most significant and prolific modernists,...
View ArticleMelsens, Sarah, Priyanka Mangaonkar-Vaiude, and Inge Bertels. "The emergence...
In late nineteenth-century British India, native contractors, seasonal labourers and various building trade communities (bricklayers, carpenters, stone cutters, stone masons, earth workers,...
View ArticleMelsens, Sarah, and Inge Bertels. "Shaping India's cities, the changing role...
In India’s transition from a socialist to a neoliberal economy in the second half of the twentieth century responsabilities among the stakeholders in the construction sector have changed significantly...
View ArticleIndorewala, Hussain. "The State of Ambivalence: Reflections on the State of...
In choosing Mumbai as its venue, the State of Architecture (SOA) exhibition perhaps paid a belated tribute to the city. Bombay was the city where the Indian capitalist class first emerged. Industrial...
View ArticleDalvi, Mustansir. "‘This New Architecture’: Contemporary Voices on Bombay’s...
This paper traces the development of a modern urban sensibility in the practitioners of architecture in Bombay in the decades before the Nation State. Largely home-grown, they embraced a form of...
View ArticleAdajania, Nancy. "The Politics of Acknowledgement: Exploding the Male...
This review-commentary analyses and annotates two pathbreaking publications authored by Madhavi Desai and Mary Woods. The authors have retrieved and contextualised the practices of Indian women...
View ArticleMelsens, Sarah, Priyanka Mangaonkar-Vaiude, and Yashoda Joshi....
With the purpose of expanding the built infrastructure in their colonial empire the British imparted technical training to Indians since the mid nineteenth century. These construction related courses...
View ArticleBuggy, Gavin. "Pierre Jeanneret Under the Solar Clock": The role of Pierre...
This work sets out to explore the role played by Pierre Jeanneret in the design and construction of the city of Chandigarh between 1951-65. In the enormous task of anchoring the Chandigarh project...
View ArticleAmstutz, Andrew. "A Pakistani Homeland for Buddhism: Displaying a National...
This article explores the surprising role of the ancient Buddhist past in the construction of Pakistani national histories in museum exhibits and archaeological guides from 1950 to 1969. Although...
View ArticleSohoni, Pushkar. "Building history: Historiography of architectural history...
Architectural history informed the colonial government in their creation of an Indian empire, helped the self‐fashioning of the princely states, and eventually became the source of national narratives...
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