The Indo-Portuguese House explains the creation of one of the most unusual and beautiful house types in the country. There are 2 Sections. The first is the context which is a visual essay on the development of the house and the second and larger part are a set of beautiful sketches of the houses. It begins with the history of Goa and its capture by the Portuguese in 1510. The religious conversion which followed and how life changed including the western models of ...
It is a fact that, even in the field of architecture, architects who have a very deep understanding of American architecture know almost next to nothing about Indian architecture or traditional Islamic architecture. Everybody knows that a well-developed civilization flourished in India and China from ancient times and that through Buddhism India made a great impact on Japan too. But if asked what comes to mind about the architecture of India from ancient times to ...