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Revision note: Indo-Islamic, Mughal and Colonial Architecture

  • New techniques: true arch, dome, lime mortar, squinch, pietra dura, charbagh, jaali
  • First true arch: tomb of Balban; first true dome: Alai Darwaza (1311)
  • Qutb Minar: Aibak → Iltutmish; Tughlaq sloping walls; Lodi double dome
  • Gol Gumbaz (Bijapur, whispering gallery); Charminar 1591; Hoshang Shah's tomb = first marble tomb
  • Humayun's Tomb (first garden tomb); Fatehpur Sikri & Buland Darwaza (Akbar); Itimad-ud-Daulah (Nur Jahan, pietra dura); Taj Mahal (Ustad Ahmad Lahori); Red Fort (UNESCO 2007)
  • Colonial: Bom Jesus (Goa), CST Mumbai (F.W. Stevens), Gateway of India (Wittet), New Delhi (Lutyens, Baker), Chandigarh (Le Corbusier)
Revision card summarising Indo-Islamic, Mughal and Colonial Architecture
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