I had the pleasure earlier this year of visiting a site I’ve long been obsessed with from afar, the magnificent stepwell of Chand Baori, in Abhaneri, India. [Image: Chand Baori, Abhaneri, Ind…
LE CORBUSIER, Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh, India, 1953 (completed 1960). Image source unknown.
Image 20 of 29 from gallery of Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People. One of the spacious, light-flooded corridors at IIM: »Indian Institute of Management« (IIM), Bangalore, 1977-92 © Courtesy of Vastushilpa Foundation, Ahmedabad, photo: Vinay Panjwani – India. Image Courtesy of Vitra Design Museum
India, Rajasthan, Bharatpur, Lohagarh fort, Royal bath via munan15.tumblr.com
The palace of Udaipur, India, woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida (1930).
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Image 3 of 37 from gallery of India's Forgotten Stepwells. Photograph by Victoria S Lautman
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Ellora Caves with Kailasanatha Temple - the most impressive Indian cave temples. 34 rock-cut Buddhist, Hindu and Jain temples from 550 - 1000 AD.
Scattered across India’s vast landscape of ancient architecture including temples, mosques, and palaces are an often overlooked relic of historic infrastructure called stepwells. These subterranean buildings, once numbered in the thousands, were originally dug into the landscape so residents could easily access water. Over time, stepwells grew increasingly elaborate in their construction, morphing from modest rock-cut holes into fully functional Hindu temples with ornate columns, stairwells, and shrines. Each well now serves as a fading structural fingerprint, diverse and unique as the communities that designed and built them. More
A British merchant being carried by a Sikkimese lady on her back. West Bengal circa 1903.
Across India an entire category of architecture is slowly crumbling into obscurity, and you’ve probably never even heard it. Such was the case 30 years ago when Chicago journalist Victoria Lautman made her first trip to the country and discovered the impressive structures called stepwells. Like gates to the underworld, the massive subterranean temples were designed as a primary way to access the water table in regions where the climate vacillates between swelteringly dry during most months, with a few weeks of torrential monsoons in the spring. More
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Boy on Horse (by A Jacona)
