In India, a magnificent piece of gendered architecture stands, full of symbolism and human meaning that is missing from much of today’s Western buildings. Lal Chand Usta designed the Palace of Winds on the south-east side of the …
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(dalbera– flickr/creative commons license) Jahangir Palace is the largest part of Agra Fort in Uttar Pradesh, India. Emperor Akbar built the palace in the 16th century after he made the site on the bend of the Yamuna river his capital. …
Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal “Crown of Palaces” in Agra India. Completed in 1648, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri of Persia supervised the design and had extensive personal involvement in construction. Architects included Abd ul-Karim Ma’mur Khan and Makramat Khan. …
(*chiara!– flickr/creative commons license) Les Corbusier designed the State Legislative Building for Chandigarh, capital of Punjab and Haryana states. Completed in 1961, this Brutalist concrete structure embodied classic modernist principles of form and function. The city’s master plan functioned like …
(Bombaywallas– wikipedia/creative commons license) SOM is designed Terminal 2 for the Mumbai Airport, completed in 2014. Terminal 1 opened in 1992 after the new airport was completed in 1981. The grand curved walls can be seen in many contemporary airports, …
Like the expanding of the sacred Mandala, Buddhism spread throughout the world from of a sacred center. The physical temple realized this spread into Korea and Japan in ancient times, mainly through political initiatives. This began with the Soga clan’s …
The Buddhist holy site known as the Ajanta Caves were carved out of the stone mountain near Aurangabad, India. About 32 monuments with vast rooms were carved right out of volcanic basalt with ancient tools from the 1st century BC …
By Arup Associates, in a remote region high in the Indian Himalayas west of Tibet, Ladakh India. Built under the patronage of the Dalai Lama, this school has enormous cultural and regional significance, as well as environmental standards and international …