Learning in New Delhi: this is the first major addition to New Delhi's symbolic capitol since Independence. It resonates with the past at many levels, and suggests new approaches to monumentality.

The Architectural Review | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

New Delhi was declared capital of India in 1911, and was designed as a demonstration of imperial power, with the great parade route, the Rajpath, running east to west some two kilometres from India Gate, Edwin Lutyens's national war memorial, then up the ramp between Herbert Baker's two Secretariats, to culminate in the presidential palace, the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Lutyens's Viceroy's House. (1) Architecture was intended to reinforce the message, with Lutyens's work in particular achieving a blend of Classicism (the European expression of empire from ancient times) with Mughal ...

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