Author: Kalpana K
Place: Chennai
Publisher: Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage
Year: 2003
Pages: 347
ISBN: 81-901640-0-7
Subject: Architecture
Sub-Subject: Heritage Architecture
Keyword: Colonizer, Manifest, Madras, Green park
Classification: 711.4
Shelf: C5R2
Accession No: B1656
Contents: Architecturaleword, The Archite and Alternative Futures Cultural the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Atlas, Schjay GHeritagehi National Park, Navi An International Airport, Quarries Gr Navi An, Eastern Waterfront Cultural An, Postscript
Abstract: Several Indian cities that were born as a result of colonization, served as showcases of the power of the colonizer, manifest in huge buildings, wide roads, large green parks and other infrastructure. Their architecture, though early on a pure model of established Classical and other European styles, eventually gave way to a refined combination of strong local traditions. Madras, one of the first major seats of the British, is one such town that has grown rapidly, but unfortunately at the stake of its heritage. Its vast architectural wealth, including the fine examples of the Indo-Saracenic style – that was a marriage between the Hindu and the Islamic styles – is fast vanishing.