As a contemporary response, we have framed this Avani Annual Research Symposium 2022 as FRICTION: Towards a Postcolonial Pedagogy and Practice in Architecture. This is an attempt to expand on the ...

"Woman carrying cement at the Capitol Complex, Chandigarh, India, in front of the Secretariat (1951–58) designed by Le Corbusier" (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965). 1956. (Ernst Scheidegger) ...

St George's Cathedral in Chennai, a 208-year-old landmark, has been expertly renovated following environmental and developmental damage. The project follows architectural conservation principles to ...

Colonial Revival architecture is like a classic Oxford shirt — it never goes out of style! Although the movement began soon after the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the style never took ...

August 31, 2021 ㅡ There is no question that both a strong sense of repudiation and apathy exists when it comes to colonial-era structures and it also runs through the public psyche of the Korean ...

Archaeological excavation in Benin City, Nigeria, ahead of the construction of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has ...

A 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival in Beverly Hills once home to Madonna, meticulously restored by Diane Keaton and later the ...

Extracted from: Journal of modern history (Chicago) 59 (2) 1987, pages 291-316. The urban modernist vision of French architects during the colonial period could not be implemented in metropolitan ...

Over the past 20 years, clean-lined British Colonial-style houses have become increasingly popular in Palm Beach. The reason is simple: Many house-hunters and developers have sought alternatives to ...

The term colonial architecture broadly refers to the buildings and homes that were constructed during a period of colonization in a given country. American colonial architecture emerged in the United ...