Author: Batley Claude
Place: New Delhi
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
Year: 1934
Volume: and ducations 8
Pages: 50
ISBN: 8120661643X
Keyword: Indian Architecture
Classification: 720.284
Shelf: C5R5
Accession No: B1050
Contents: Forndianord, Essay, Commentary, Afterword, Postscript, Edited
Abstract: The author has delved deep into the history of the Indian architecture to highlight the basic facts and necessity of it. The collection of measured drawing and details presented in this publication represents an endeavour to meet a need which everyone has set out to study the elements in Indian Architecture must have felt. In the histories dealing with the subject, such as the excellent one written by Fergusson, the illustrations must need be small, while the plates contained in the various volumes published by the Archeological Survey Department of Government of India, in the well-known Bijapur portfolio and in the other cognate works, are found to deal each with some particular locality or style, and many of them are, if obtainable at all, beyond the means of average students of architecture. This work describes the works by the Chalukya dynasty, the works in Gujarat and Western India, Bijapur and other Mughal styles. Among the cities in which the specimens are taken are Agra, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Bijapur, Champaner, Delhi, Fatehpur Sikri, Jaipur, and Nasik. Jain Temple architecture is also noticed. The author was an architect of note, who designed the Jinnah house in Bombay. So, this book is immensely good for the students and researchers About the Author:-Claude Batley F.R.I.B.A., F.I.A.A. was an English architect who as practitioner, teacher and President of the Indian Institute of Architects from 1921 to 1923, played an influential role in development of modern architecture in India in the first half of the 20th Century. Born in Ipswich in 1879 and educated at Ipswich School, Batley served his articles locally and in London leaving for India in 1913. In Bombay he started a successful independent architectural practice in 1917 with partners Gregson and King, a firm of architects which is still extant under the name of Gregson, Batley and King. Among his works are the Bombay Gymkhana (1917); Lincoln House (1933), previously Wankaner House, Breach C