Subject:- History of Indian Architecture

Topic: - Contribution of Foreign Architects in INDIA

Sl no Name and Contribution (In and outside India) Remarks

Education
1. Edwin  Capital City of Delhi.
Landseer  Rashtrapati Bhavan, formerly
Lutyens & known as Viceroy's House
Herbert Baker  The India Gate, New Delhi (1921)
 Sansad Bhawan (parliament
house)
 Secretariat Blocks, New Delhi

2. Same as above

3. George Wittet. Gateway of India, Mumbai

4. Laurie Baker Influenced

by Mahatm
a Gandhi
5. Sir William  Victoria Memorial
Emerson
6. Fariborz Sahba Lotus temple

7. Moshe Safdie Khalsa Heritage Centre in Punjab

8. Louis Kahn The Indian Institute of Management,

Ahmedabad
9. Joseph Allen  City of Durgapur
Stein  IIM Kozhikode
 India Habitat Centre
 Triveni Kala Sangam
10. Le Corbusier  City of Chandigarh
 Capitol Complex, Chandigarh
 Mill Owners' Association Building
 Villa Sarabhai
 Sanskar Kendra Museum

11. Otto Königsberger  City of Bhubaneswar

 Part of Jamshedpur
 Indian Institute of Science (few
buildings)
 Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research
1. Lotus Temple, New Delhi

The Lotus Temple designed by Iranian-American architect Fariborz Sahba

is located in New Delhi and is a Bahá’í House of Worship that was
completed in 1986. The building is notable for its flower-like shape and
serves as the Mother Temple of the Indian subcontinent.

The building is composed of 27 free-standing marble-clad ‘petals’ arranged

in clusters of three to form nine sides, with nine doors opening onto a
central hall with height of slightly over 40 metre and a capacity of 2,500
people.

The surface of the House of Worship is made of white marble. It

features nine surrounding ponds and gardens, with the overall property
comprising 26 acres.

5. Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai

 Photo: Robert Polidori © Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd.

Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), the Chhatrapati Shivaji

International Airport is inspired by the form of traditional Indian pavilions.

Regional patterns and textures are subtly integrated into the terminal’s
architecture at all scales.

6. Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur

The Pearl Academy of Fashion designed by Indian architecture
firm Morphogenesis fuses old-school building techniques with modern
design, as well as implementing energy efficiency as its core principle.

The architects developed two passive-cooling control methods to keep

workspaces and courtyards cool. The entire building is elevated off the
ground, sucking air in around the edges of the building which is eventually
released up through the open-air courtyards. A large stepped well at the
centre of the building also plays a role in lowering the temperatures as it
enters under the belly of the building. Fed by recycled water from the on-
site sewage treatment plant, the well creates a cooler microclimate through
evaporation.

The building incorporates local stone and mosaic tiles with the inner,
amorphous-shaped courtyards providing ample daylight to classrooms and
studio spaces, reducing the need for artificial light.

8. The Park Hotel, Hyderabad

Being the first LEED Gold certified hotel in India, The Park Hotel
Hyderabad was designed by SOM, offering a 270-room hotel. Its modern
and sustainable design combines local craft traditions, and is influenced by
the region’s reputation as a centre for the design and production of
gemstones and textiles.Roger Duffy, SOM’s Partner in Charge of the
project. The shape of the facade’s openings, as well as the three-
dimensional patterns on the screens themselves, were inspired by the
forms of the metalwork of the crown jewels of the Nizam, the city’s historic
ruling dynasty.
9. Capitol Complex, Chandigarh

Palace of Assembly. Photography Benjamin Hosking

Although this project doesn’t fall under “contemporary architecture”, we

couldn’t resist adding Le Corbusier’s Capitol Complex in Chandigarh, which
is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

It is made up of three concrete buildings: the Palace of Assembly or

Legislative Assembly, the Secretariat and the High Court. Chandigarh was
one of India’s first planned cities, and was Le Corbusier’s largest
project, who commissioned to design the masterplan in the early 1950s,
after being approved by Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister.

The Secretariat is the largest of the structures, and houses the

headquarters of both the Punjab and Haryana governments. It is 250
metres long and comprises eight storeys of rough-cast concrete.

The concrete was moulded into different forms to create complex geometry
and patterns, which are highlighted in the paintwork.
The Palace of Assembly was designed to have an open-plan interior,
framed by a grid of reinforced concrete columns, offering a view of the
nearby Himalayan mountains.