av福利社ARA Highlights: South Asia from 1800

Mar 13, 2017 by Jacqueline Spafford and Jeffrey Klee, av福利社ARA Co-Editors

This month’s highlights from av福利社ARA includes buildings from south Asia from 1800 to the present. This includes the periods of colonialization, the British Raj in India, and independence. av福利社ARA includes over 1,600 images from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, most of which are from the modern period, including many buildings by both European and Asian architects.

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01-Temple

Hathisingh Jain Temple, Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India, 1848. Peter Serenyi, photographer, 1985.

02-Lutyens

India Gate, New Delhi, India, 1931, Edwin Lutyens, architect. Peter Serenyi, photographer, 1985.

03-Lunuganga

Lunuganga, House and Garden of Geoffrey Bawa, Bentota, Sri Lanka, 1947, Geoffrey Bawa, architect. Mark Hinchman, photographer, 2015.

04-Chandigarh

Chandigarh capitol complex, Chandigarh, India, 1953, Le Corbusier, architect. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, photographer.

05-National-Assembly

Hostels for members of parliament, National Assembly (Jatiya Sangshad Bhabwan), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1962-1984, Louis I. Kahn, architect. Gretta Tritch Roman, photographer, 2012.

06-Nehru