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 ...

The idea that Brazil’s modernization and national identity formation are deeply tied to the country’s colonial past found one of its strongest ideological expressions in modernist architecture.

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 ...

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

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

A well-designed home can retain its classic features even as modern life forces updates. Take a look at a renovated, 114-year-old Colonial Revival mansion in Northeast Portland, which is for sale at ...

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 ...

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 ...