Lecture 13th May

Imperil Peli and the Architecture of Power:

-Imperial and architectural context:
=Ancient seat of empires
=Jewl of the crown
=Indian Traditions
=British Traditions

-Imperial and archittectural Practice:
=Occitsenialism vs orientalism
=symbolism

-Imperial and architectural Practice.
=Somthing old, somthing new, somthing borrowed, somthing askew?
=Sir Edwin Lutyens - The visroys pallace
=Sir Herbert Baker - Govt. Secretariat
=Monument or mausoleum?
=Legacies

India has a very traditional look at architecture and culture.
much of indian arch is religion based
-Muslum
-chrstian
-Budhust

Parliment was deliberatly left out of the symmetry of power, "an after thought".