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Journal articles on the topic "Architecture, British colonial"
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Anuradha, V. "18TH CENTURY URBANIZATION IN SOUTH INDIA AND TRANSFORMATION INTO BRITISH IMPERIAL ARCHITECTURE WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON URBAN SPACES OF BANGALORE." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 10, no. 1 (October 25, 2017): 1995–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v10i1.6600.
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The colonial structures that still stand today in India are the product of careful fabrication of British thought. The British government was afraid of what kind of legacy they would leave behind when exiting India in 1947. Today, years after the independence of India, one is still able to see such a legacy in stone: the colonial architecture and cities that are still in existence. The styles of architecture employed by the British Raj were systematically chosen, dependent on the location and utilization of a given city. The British were trying to consecrate their power through architectural representation. Trying to legitimize British rule, architects wanted to tie the architecture of the British with former Indian rulers, yet still create an effect of British grandeur. The examples illustrate that location and utilization were indeed crucial determinants of colonial style.
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Islam, Muhaiminul, and Hasan Muntasir. "Tropicality of Colonial Heritage Buildings in a Deltaic Landscape: British Colonial Architecture in Khulna." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics 19, no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 72–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3762.
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During the 17th-18th century colonial period on the Indian subcontinent, British colonial architecture flourished – including in the Bengal Delta. Although colonial architecture was inherently different from the traditional architecture of this tropical region, the monsoon climate and deltaic landscape forced colonial style buildings to incorporate a number of tropical architectural features to ensure climatic comfort. In the contemporary period, due to pressure from population density, many colonial buildings have been demolished and replaced with multi-story buildings. However, the tropical forces of this deltaic region need to be evaluated in order to re-create climate responsive architecture. This study aims to identify tropical architectural features inherent within colonial buildings of Khulna, Bangladesh, a city which formed a junction in the deltaic region during the colonial period. Four colonial buildings have been selected as case studies: two residential buildings, one mixed-use building, and a school. Tropical features were analysed from photographic data, and reproductions of plans and sections of the selected buildings, in order to reveal the significant tropical architectural features of these colonial period buildings. The case studies reveal structural and design elements that aided ventilation and air flow, and controlled solar radiation, humidity and driving rain. The findings aim to encourage practicing architects to rethink climate responsiveness in contemporary buildings in Bangladesh, by revealing how, a century ago, colonial buildings were influenced by the tropical deltaic climate, which impacted foreign architectural ideology and practice.
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Sasi, Ashwini. "Redefining: Cultural Impression in Princely States During Colonial Period." Resourceedings 1, no. 2 (November 27, 2018): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.21625/resourceedings.v1i2.325.
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India is well diverse with a variety of cultural and traditional practices. Impact of age-old practices redefined the idea of culture and tradition, not only as a hereditary system, but also as part of art and architecture. Factors such as the cultural changes between North and South India, impact of the British, changes in spatial organization and patriarchy and matrilineal system drew an impact on cultural impression of India through time.
Palaces (04th —18th century) and the lifestyle of the heirs, being a soul example to exhibit the Indian uniqueness, gradually inclined towards British culture and morals. This influence brought a change in the architectural design of palaces, which is the core study area in the thesis.
Comparing the architectural planning of palaces from the 13th to the 18th century showed a clear change on how British influenced Indian palace design. This became one of the finest reasons to identify cities with palaces based on their culture and tradition, and on art and architecture. In addition to finding how it has brought the influential change and what is the present scenario of the same palaces.
The architectures that were adopted in India was a form of true traditional architecture which is been followed through a very long time and hence it was collaborated with Italian, French, Indo Sarcenic or European style.
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Micots, Courtnay. "Status and Mimicry." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 74, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 41–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2015.74.1.41.
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Status and Mimicry: African Colonial Period Architecture in Coastal Ghana looks at Anomabo, a historically significant port, as a case study to examine hybrid African colonial period architecture in coastal Ghana, formerly known as the Gold Coast Colony. Between the 1870s and 1920s, numerous residences with façades inspired by British styles were built for and by Africans in Anomabo. Courtnay Micots examines these houses as reflections of a deliberately constructed hybrid style of architecture with exteriors appropriated from the Italianate and Queen Anne styles of nineteenth-century England and interior plans utilizing borrowed and local elements. This hybrid architecture in colonial Ghana reflects status, modernity, and resistance to British hegemony. Through close analysis of five residences and the potential motivations of their patrons, Micots shows these houses to be markers of selfhood and cultural belonging, local forms that were refashioned to counter the growing authority of the British administration.
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Mohammad, Mahizan Hijaz, and Aznan Omar. "Colonial Architecture on Local History Through Glass Sculpture." Idealogy Journal of Arts and Social Science 6, no. 1 (April 28, 2021): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/idealogy.v6i1.250.
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The aim of this paper is to study the aspect of colonial building that relates to local history. The history of tin mining is to be acknowledged and understand as important to the local. Local history has been part of important aspect in a developing community. It signifies engagement of the link between the present and the past. It helps the community to learn about the events that has happened and in the Malaysian context, the history of the British colonial is the most relevant for it is visibility due to the architectural ruin that is on location. The method applied is Critical Self reflections and studio experimentation. Samples and images of location on site retrieved to study the visual aspect of the buildings and applied as part f the artwork. Artwork explorations are conducted to relate the material and techniques to the context of the study. The British occupation existed in Malaysia for more than two hundred years from 1795 until 1957. In Malaysia generally there are four typical colonial styles of architecture which are Moorish, Tudor, Neo Classic and Neo Gothic (A Ghafar Ahmad, 1997). The tin mining industry has brought merchant and workers to Central Perak such as Gopeng and Batu Gajah. According to (Syed Zainol Abidin Ibid,1995), during 1900 till 1940s, there are three architectural style that influenced the construction of commercial building and shop houses which are adaptation style, eclectic and Art Deco. However, after time the Colonial buildings have decayed and turn into ruins. The beauty and style of the Colonial architecture has inspired the researcher to study the building since it is visible in the surrounding central Perak and keeps an interesting story of the past. Working with glass, the researcher will fabricate the idea of colonial building and glass as a work of art.
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Soomro, T. A., M. A. Soomro, A. N. Laghari, D. K. Bhangwar, and M. A. Soomro. "Fading Legacy of the Architectural Heritage of the Historic Core of Karachi." Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research 8, no. 2 (April 19, 2018): 2735–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.48084/etasr.1779.
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In 1839 British East India Company captured the town of Karachi. After an effortless resistance from the locals the fort was conquered by the British commander sir Charles Napier. The village of Kolachi then was annexed to British India and the city was labeled as Karachi. With the British occupation a phase of new sophisticated architecture and development started. Before that the city was based upon the vernacular mud architecture. These developments resulted in an influx of economic migrants who helped in making Karachi as a multinational and a multicultural city. This paper investigates the architectural attributes that the historic core of the city offers. It also discusses the side by side development of the native and British towns. The paper also researches about the existing state of the architecture precedent of the British colonial past of the city and the urban blight occurred to them over time in various forms like vandalism, encroachments, illegal repairs, etc.
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Waits, Mira Rai. "Imperial Vision, Colonial Prisons:." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 77, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 146–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2018.77.2.146.
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Prison construction was among the most important infrastructural changes brought about by British rule in nineteenth-century India. Informed by the extension of liberal political philosophy into the colony, the development of the British colonial prison introduced India to a radically new system of punishment based on long-term incarceration. Unlike prisons in Europe and the United States, where moral reform was cited as the primary objective of incarceration, prisons in colonial India focused on confinement as a way of separating and classifying criminal types in order to stabilize colonial categories of difference. In Imperial Vision, Colonial Prisons: British Jails in Bengal, 1823–73, Mira Rai Waits explores nineteenth-century colonial jail plans from India's Bengal Presidency. Although colonial reformers eventually arrived at a model of prison architecture that resembled Euro-American precedents, the built form and functional arrangements of these places reflected a singularly colonial model of operation.
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Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor. "Modernism in Late Imperial British West Africa: The Work of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, 1946-56." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65, no. 2 (June 1, 2006): 188–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25068264.
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This article situates the educational architecture of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew in British West Africa in 1946-56 in the context of late British colonial policy. The analysis extends discursive readings of architecture with contemporary literary texts as aspects of what might be termed the material cultural fabric. These different forms of articulation illuminate the sociocultural dynamic underlying the migration of modernism in the postwar era, and the extent to which the movement affected and was appropriated by British colonial enterprise. It also discloses modernism's simultaneous disruption and reinforcement of the objectives of modernity, among which were the ideological and technical systems of British imperial expansion. On this basis, it is argued that Fry and Drew were constrained in their endeavor to resolve the divergent expectations within modernist theory concerning the application of universal principles to local conditions, and thus also in their aim of initiating a legitimate modern African architecture.
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Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor. "Refabricating the Imperial Image on the Isle of Dogs: Modernist Design, British State Exhibitions and Colonial Policy 1924–1951." Architectural History 49 (2006): 317–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066622x0000280x.
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Historical analysis of the 1951 Festival of Britain has tended to overlook its ideological genealogy, and also to give less consideration to the Exhibition of Architecture, Town Planning and Building Research at Lansbury in Poplar on the Isle of Dogs than to the architecture and displays at the South Bank site (Figs 1 and 2). That genealogy reflects an intersection between the formulation of colonial policy and the adaptation of Modern Movement theory and practice during the final phase of British imperialism. Consequently the purpose of this paper is to recover various aspects of this intersection, during the nearly three decades from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924. Focusing on design practice in the Empire, especially the national exhibition buildings erected at those major international expositions that led up to and culminated in the Festival of Britain, it also examines the wider representation of architectural and colonial development in professional media and public propaganda.
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Adam Che Yusof, Muhammad, and A. Ghafar Ahmad. "Architecture typology of a British-era colonial schools at the World Heritage Sites of Georgetown and Melaka: Impact on heritage building conservation sector." SHS Web of Conferences 45 (2018): 01004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184501004.
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Colonial schools are among the most valuable and precious treasures from the British administration era. The architectural characteristics of the schools contain a wealth of meaning and philosophy in each of the building details that is not found in modern schools nowadays. However, in this era of rapid development, the status of colonial schools is unclear in terms of their heritage status and significance towards society or even the authorities. Moreover, some colonial schools that are now overshadowed by new buildings that were built inside of the school compound and its surrounding. Besides, the local authorities themselves are lacking on the documentation of colonial schools in terms of their value, and the principles behind the architectural style of the colonial schools that could prove beneficial to many parties later as a reference. This article will outline the method to handle this issue besides suggesting a relationship between the value of the colonial architecture and its history at both heritage sites of Georgetown and Melaka. Besides that, we will also classify different colonial schools according to their architectural style. To ensure the objectives are achieved, qualitative methods will be applied including several approaches such as descriptive method, historical method and content analysis method. Hence, this research can serve as a reference point and documentation, especially for conservation purposes of colonial schools. In addition, the local authorities can also improve their Conservation Management Plan (CMP) by adding a colonial schools sector for conservation work and later guidelines. This research will hopefully also encourage the younger generation on the importance of skills and knowledge in the heritage building conservation sector.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Architecture, British colonial"
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Hobson, Daphne Louise. "The domestic architecture of the earliest British colonies in the American tropics:a study of the houses of the Caribbean Leeward Islands of St. Christopher, Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat. 1624-1726." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26661.
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This study delineates the domestic architecture of the early colonial period in the American tropics in the first group of British colonies that survived. In 1624, the English made their first permanent settlement on St. Christopher in the Caribbean, then expanded to the neighboring islands of Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat. Of particular interest to this research was what the architecture would reveal regarding how the first settlers adapted to the new island environment, its geography, resources, climate, and people, in the first 100 years. The research involved the examination of manuscripts of the period in archives and collections in the UK, USA and Caribbean. The historical data accumulated was primarily inventories and brief descriptions of houses, business correspondence and a small number of official maps. A key resource was a document listing the losses of buildings and possessions suffered as a result of French raids in 1705-1706. The study views the recorded items not as losses, but instead as proof of what once existed, almost as newly found "treasure", and analyzes the items both qualitatively and quantitatively in order to reveal a clearer picture of daily life for the settlers, from modest farmers to wealthier land owners. The study identified house types, stylistic trends in the houses and their furnishing, patterns of use, and construction methods. The architecture recorded the British colonists' process of adaptation to the unfamiliar environment. The study found that Leeward Islands, in the settler period of English colonization (1624-1726) there was a significant degree of interaction and exchange between the Amerindian and British peoples. In addition, it found correlations with rural houses in the wider American tropical region.
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Hobson, Daphne Louise. "The domestic architecture of the earliest British colonies in the American tropics a study of the houses of the Caribbean Leeward Islands of St. Christopher, Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat : 1624-1726 /." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26661.
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Thesis (Ph.D)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Committee Chair: Lewcock, Ronald; Committee Member: Bafna, Sonit; Committee Member: Dowling, Elizabeth; Committee Member: Edwards, Jay D.; Committee Member: Nelson, Louis. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Epstein, Clarence. "Church architecture in Montreal during the British-colonial period, 1760-1860." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22194.
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The French-colonial trading town of Montreal underwent a remarkable transformation from 1760 to 1860. Following the British conquest of New France, the powers vested to Catholic missionary orders were assumed by a Protestant administration. Given the diversity of settlers who were forced to live side by side in the more densely populated urban areas of the colony, ecclesiastical design became a vehicle for the expression of national and denominational identities. By examining church production in Montreal during the period, those cultural imperatives inscribed by French, English, Scottish, Irish and American denominations become apparent. The assimilation of building traditions resulting from the interaction of communities was critical in determining the eclectic architectural character of Canada's first metropolis.
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Ahmad, A. Ghafar Bin. "Conservation of British colonial buildings built between 1800 and 1930 in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1994. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14730/.
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conservation in the United Kingdom and to develop possibilities of transferring them to the context of British colonial buildings in Malaysia. It is axiomatic, based on visits to and observations of a large number of buildings in Malaysia and the United Kingdom, that there are many similarities between the British colonial buildings built between 1800 and 1930 in Malaysia and those built in the same period of time in the United Kingdom; in terms of style, building materials, detailing, function and construction. Like many other countries in which building conservation seems a fairly new practice, Malaysia faces problems in dealing with the issues of historic buildings. The present legislation for historic buildings is not sufficient nor suitable, to protect such buildings from being demolished and destroyed. There is also no suitable system for discovering and recording the British colonial buildings in the country. Another aspect is lack of technical knowledge in repairing and maintaining historic buildings. An introductory chapter explains further these problems besides describing the British colonial architecture and the present situation of building conservation in Malaysia. The thesis is divided into five parts. Part One, deals with legislation, examines the scope of building conservation, reasons for conservation, tenninology, recording and listing buildings; and also some case law in regard to building conservation in the United Kingdom. Part Two looks upon philosophical attitudes of some organizations dealing with building conservation in the United Kingdom and Malaysia. Part Three includes a study of methodology which covers saving historic buildings, systems for discovering and recording, data of British colonial buildings, the use of building materials and common defects; and methods and techniques of building maintenance. Part Four presents and analyses case studies of building conservation in the United Kingdom and Malaysia. Several buildings have been selected to compare their changes of use and methods of renovation. Part Five provides conclusions and recommendations for the improvement of the British colonial buildings in Malaysia.
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Deb, Lal Nilina. "Building Calcutta : construction trends in the making of the capital of British India, 1880-1911." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29640.
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Calcutta of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century enjoyed global stature and connections as a consequence of its position within the British Empire as the capital of India. This study of Calcutta’s buildings aims to comprehend the architectural legacy of the period in terms of its construction history. The proposed thesis underlying the research is that Calcutta’s built environment bore witness to the intense traffic of ideas, people and goods characteristic of the era. The significance of the research is two-fold. It enjoys the distinction of being the first attempt to undertake a wide-ranging investigation into the construction history of a city in the Indian subcontinent, and indeed possibly anywhere in the world. Concurrently, the study endeavours to suggest a methodological approach for similar forthcoming studies in India and elsewhere, especially considering that the discipline of construction history is as yet at a nascent stage and such studies are only expected to multiply in number and scope in the coming years. The research effort trains its attention on two key aspects of construction history – human resource and material resource. The former is manifested in investigations into the training and work contexts of the professionals engaged in construction activity, i.e. the engineers and the architects. The latter takes the form of research into source and application of the commonly used construction materials. The methodology employed in the study encompasses a range of disciplines and related sources, especially drawing on architectural, urban, social and economic histories. Addressing the proposed thesis has necessitated directing research efforts towards situating developments in Calcutta in the context of and with reference to the metropolitan milieu. The analysis of the research findings and the conclusions thus drawn have served to corroborate the proposed thesis highlighting the incessant flux distinctive of the construction environment in Calcutta in the period of this study. The dissertation is expected to facilitate an enhanced understanding of Calcutta’s built environment for those entrusted with its care, especially those in the heritage and conservation sector, as well as contribute to the available pool of free knowledge furthering our understanding of human civilization.
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Ali, Zuraini Md. "British colonial and post-colonial attitudes to architecture and heritage conservation in Malaysia, with reference to the works of Mubin Sheppard." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.577551.
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Malaysia, after more than fifty years as an independent nation, is one of the most progressive countries in architectural development in South East Asia. In the last three decades, a conscious appreciation of architectural conservation has been established in the country. This study aims to provide a framework for the history and development of the architectural conservation movement in Malaysia, since a large vacuum exists in this area. Using the historical interpretive method, a qualitative examination of case studies and leading prominent personnel has provided historical documentation and useful insights. This thesis attempts to give a chronological account of the development and origins of Malaysian architectural conservation efforts, with particular reference to the role of the late Tan Sri Mubin Sheppard, catalyst and leading promoter of conservation activities, who became the focus of this research. Thus, Sheppard's contribution to the fledgling heritage conservation movement is examined against the background of the establishment and involvement of government agencies, primarily the Museums Department under the British Empire from the 1880s till the newly-implemented National Heritage Act 2005. The research starts with a brief review of Sheppard's life - in particular, his work in Malaya (later Malaysia), followed by a literature review of the historical survey of conservation organisations in the United Kingdom (the British colonial motherland) to see the influence of past events and conservation practices at the time. This thesis then examines Sheppard's contributions to notable Governmental agencies. i.e. the Department of Museums (DoM). and Non-Governmental Organisations. namely the Malayan (later Malaysian) Historical Society (MHS) and Budan Warisan Malaysia (BWM or The Heritage of Malaysia Trust). The major sources of information include accessible reports. relevant newspaper articles and journal collections in the archives and libraries in Malaysia and the United Kingdom, and in particular. documents belonging Sheppard in the National Archives of Malaysia, the University of Cambridge Library and the National Archives in the UK. Studies on selected conservation projects that Sheppard participated in (notably Istana Ampang Tinggi. Masjid Kampong Laut and Istana Tengku Nik), interviews and correspondence with individuals from organisations Sheppard was involved with (MHS, DoM and BWM) and visits to the sites were conducted. The research has been partly limited by bureaucratic restrictions and the confidentiality of materials available in Malaysia. The findings from this research give a new perspective and provide new knowledge on architectural conservation in the country and delineate a significant historical path for others to follow in understanding the crucial issues and challenges faced by those who carried out conservation projects in the early years in Malaysia.
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Roberts, Heulwen Mary. "Architect of empire: Joseph Fearis Munnings (1879-1937)." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8969.
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New Zealand-born architect Joseph Fearis Munnings (1879-1937) is largely forgotten in the country of his birth. Considering the importance of his public works in Bihar and Orissa, India (1912-1919) and his prominence as a school architect in New South Wales, Australia (1923-1937), recognition of his architectural achievements is long overdue.
This thesis takes as its premise the notion that early twentieth century architecture in colonial New Zealand, India and Australia was British, the rationale expounded by G. A. Bremner in Imperial Gothic– Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire (2013). My thesis argues that, considering Munnings’ colonial upbringing and English training, the styles he employed reflected his and his clients’ identity as British. It explores the extent to which Munnings adapted British styles, by incorporating features appropriate for colonial conditions. Drawing upon the work of Ian Lochhead on the achievements of Samuel Hurst Seager, my thesis considers the role played by Seager in mentoring Munnings and guiding his philosophy of architecture. Peter Scriver’s papers, ‘Edge of empire or edge of Asia’ (2009) and ‘Complicity and Contradiction in the Office of the Consulting Architect to the Government of India, 1903-1921’ (1996), also inform my analysis of Munnings’ work in India.
To enable an analysis of Munnings’ work, this study divides his career into chronological stages: Early experiences and training, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1879-1903 Architectural training, London, England, 1903-1906 Partnership with Hurst Seager and Cecil Wood, Christchurch, 1906-1909 Work with Leonard Stokes, London, 1909 Responsibilities and achievements, India, 1910-1918 Contributions and achievements, New Zealand, 1919-1923 Partnership with Power and Adam, Sydney, Australia, 1923-1937.
This thesis, the first comprehensive study of Munnings’ career, illuminates the extent of his architectural legacy in India, his significant contribution to school architecture in New South Wales, and asserts his place as an architect of the British Empire.
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Hobson, Daphne. "The domestic architecture of the earliest British colonies in the American tropics : a study of the houses of the Caribbean Leeward Islands of St. Christopher, Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat, 1624-1726 /." 2007. http://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/1853/26661/1/hobson_daphne_l_200712_phd.pdf.
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Toffah, Tariq. "The shaping and picturing of the `Cape' and the `other(s)' : representation of the colony, its indigenous inhabitants and Islam during the Dutch and British colonial periods at the Cape (17th-19th centuries)." Thesis, 2014.
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Th e Dutch (VOC) trading empire of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries brought with it to South Africa not only the world of powerful
merchant capitalism, but it would also construct a new imaginative
geography and order of the land to that which had been known by its
ancient inhabitants, wherein the very idea of the land would be rewritten.
Many aspects of this new geography would be refl ected in representation
during VOC rule in the Cape colony, in its maps, pictures and drawings.
Within this picturing of the land, the rival indigenous presence as well
as the colony’s non-settlers inhabitants—both of whom formed colonial
‘others’—would also be depicted; although typically this visibility would
be carefully measured and managed in complex ways in both offi cial
and popular artistic representation.
While offi cial colonial and apartheid archives in South Africa lack
suffi cient, meaningful representation of marginalised groups such
as blacks, slaves, Muslims, and indigenous people, the visual sources
wherein such groups are depicted constitute another source of archive
which has still only begun to be explored comparatively and as a body
of images.
Th rough visual sources, the study analyses fi rstly the discursive,
imaginative, and physical appropriation of landscape as represented in
Dutch and British colonial-period maps and pictures in the seventeenth
to nineteenth centuries. Secondly it explores the representation of
colonial ‘others’ who are depicted therein, and to what extent it may
be possible to recover some aspects of marginalised narratives and
spatial practices. Islam at the Cape, whose history dates back to the very
beginning of European settlement but which was offi cially proscribed
for the most of the colonial period, also forms an important component
of the study, as a case study of such ‘liminal’ narratives and landscapes.
Books on the topic "Architecture, British colonial"
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Borg, Malcolm. British colonial architecture: Malta, 1800-1900. San Gwann, Malta: Publishers Enterprises Group, 2001.
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C, Hyland A. D., ed. Colonial architecture in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Ibadan, Oyo State: Bookbuilders, Editions Africa, 2006.
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Ahmad, A. Ghafar. British colonial architecture in Malaysia 1800-1930. Kuala Lumpur: Museums Association of Malaysia, 1997.
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Alwis, Lakshman. British period architecture in Sri Lanka. [Colombo: Sri Lanka United Kingdom Society], 1992.
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Glover, William J. Making Lahore modern: Constructing and imagining a colonial city. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
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Of planting and planning: The making of British colonial cities. London: Spon, 1997.
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author, Halder Manju, ed. Colonial architecture of Kolkata: Reflections of the European building-art in eastern enterprise. Kolkata: Urbee Prakashan, 2013.
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Sabri, Reyhan. "British Colonial Inputs to Waqf’s Traditional Building Upkeep Systems (1878–1905)." In The Imperial Politics of Architectural Conservation, 45–79. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18232-8_3.
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Abd Raub, Abu Bakar, Esmawee Endut, and Ahmadreza Saberi. "The Eco-Technology of British Colonial Buildings: The ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ Architectural Elements of Crag Hotel and Woodside Cottage, Penang Hill." In Proceedings of the Colloquium on Administrative Science and Technology, 443–51. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-45-3_43.
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Ernst, Waltraud. "Madness and colonial spaces— British India, c. 1800-1947." In Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment, 215–38. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203715376-11.
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BALLANTYNE, ANDREW, and ANDREW LAW. "Architecture: The Tudoresque Diaspora." In Tudorism. British Academy, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264942.003.0009.
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This chapter focuses on the use of Tudoresque architecture overseas, where it began as an expression of Britishness, but since then has come to have other connotations along the way. It describes examples from 1920s America which show that Tudoresque architecture can flourish without the support of a British expatriate community; and Tudoresque buildings at Shimla in the northwest Himalayas, India, which from 1864 became a seasonal capital that served as the seat of government from March to November. Tudoresque architecture has become emblematic of Britishness and can be found around the world wherever quality is valued. It is also found in a less explicitly ‘Tudor’ mode, where the black-and-white colouring of the style is used for the sake of its connection with earlier, more colonial buildings that have come to be seen as smart and authoritative, but where specific evocation of Britishness does not seem to be the point.
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Sim, Gerald. "Postcolonial Spatiality." In Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721936_ch01.
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This chapter examines the ways in which Singapore’s geographically inflected condition finds its way onto the national cinema’s expressive palette. It examines the country’s spatial epistemology from its historical origins as an island and colonial port city, to the modern state’s management of urban development and land scarcity. Singapore’s real and imagined relationship to British colonial rule exerts a structural influence, and impresses itself onto the architecture of its built environment, infrastructural design, and artistic production. Inspired by Tom Conley’s Cartographic Cinema, this study defines the national hermeneutic that results, through the discovery of pregnant codes and signs, along with activated signals of direction and scale. Singapore’s postcolonial identity thus infuses feature and short filmmaking with spatial discourse in three forms: aerial cartography, affective maps, and colonial atlases.
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Fox, Georgia L. "The Great House." In An Archaeology and History of a Caribbean Sugar Plantation on Antigua, 16–32. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401285.003.0002.
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Chapter 2 discusses the Great House at Betty’s Hope, which was excavated from 2007 to 2012. The plantation was owned by the Codrington family from 1674 until the plantation was sold in 1944. Ownership began with Christopher Codrington II, the son of a Barbadian sugar planter. Although the house itself is long gone, the house and grounds at Betty’s Hope follow certain basic characteristics of Caribbean plantation architecture and landscapes. The overall material culture of the Betty’s Hope Great House is similar to other British colonial sites, with a predominance of eighteenth-century British ceramics and artifacts reflecting domestic life. Archaeological and documentary evidence suggest that the house was destroyed by the time of the sale of the property in 1944.
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"Famagusta on Cyprus and the Sea: Hotel Architecture, Urban Development and Tourism during the British Colonial and Early Postcolonial Period." In Famagusta Maritima, 264–96. BRILL, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004397682_014.
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Guerrieri, Pilar Maria. "Two Conceptions of the City." In Negotiating Cultures, 19–46. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199479580.003.0002.
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This chapter compares the plan put forward in 1912, during the colonial period, with the one approved after Independence in 1962. It demonstrates that both plans bear foreign influences; in the first case British, in the second American. The city that came after 1947, rather than being a centre of power and administration, was designed to be a residential city. New Delhi was planned based on the ideal of the Garden City and the City Beautiful movements. By contrast, the city imagined after Independence follows the principles of zoning and functional separation. It is particularly interesting how despite the strong foreign influences some of those English architects working in Delhi had tried to go beyond utopia and tie a link with the pre-existing city of Shahjahanabad and imagined architecture based on the observation of traditional typologies.
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King, Stuart, and Julie Willis. "The Australian Colonies." In Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire, 318–54. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198713326.003.0010.
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Robinson, Richard. "Australias Culinary Coming Out." In Food and Drink: the cultural context. Goodfellow Publishers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/978-1-908999-03-0-2330.
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Once perceived as a colonial backwater shaped by convicts, bushmen, laconic working class, and ANZACs, Australia has now asserted itself as a nation with strong and admired cultural attributes; home to world-class cities, globally recognised personalities, citizens of growing sophistication and a range of admired cultural institutions. One intriguing observation is that this accumulation of cultural capital has been mobilised by Australia’s emerging reputation in the realms of food and drink. Is Australia’s cultural ‘coming out’ indebted to its contemporary food and beverage professionals? Australia’s European heritage, and consequent worldwide exposure, began in the late 18th century. Before European contact, Australia’s knowledge of the world beyond its seaboards was limited to visits by the Macassan Indonesians fishing for trepang, or sea cucumber. In 1788, under pressure to alleviate pressure on their groaning penal system, exacerbated by the loss of the American colonies in the previous decade, the British sent Arthur Phillip to Sydney Cove to establish the first permanent European settlement in Terra Australis. Within a few decades, penal colonies were founded in all the other current Australian states – in or near their capitals; Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. The military, free settlers and emancipated convicts brought with them their largely Anglo-Celtic heritage, habitus and culture – architecture, agricultural and later industrial economies, political, religious and social institutions, clothing, social mores and rituals, and of course food and drink. Many of these, arguably, were ill suited to the remote, sparse and harsh antipodean environment. Yet little changed and the tyranny of distance ensured that what change there was would be tediously slow.
Conference papers on the topic "Architecture, British colonial"
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Mallick, Bhaswar. "Instrumentality of the Labor: Architectural Labor and Resistance in 19th Century India." In 2018 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2018.49.
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19th century British historians, while glorifying ancient Indian architecture, legitimized Imperialism by portraying a decline. To deny vitality of native architecture, it was essential to marginalize the prevailing masons and craftsmen – a strain that later enabled portrayal of architects as cognoscenti in the modern world. Now, following economic liberalization, rural India is witnessing a new hasty urbanization, compliant of Globalization. However, agrarian protests and tribal insurgencies evidence the resistance, evocative of that dislocation in the 19th century; the colonial legacy giving way to concerns of internal neo-colonialism.