Art & Culture Quiz: Modern Architecture and Architects of India

The Swiss-French architect gave Chandigarh its grid of self-contained sectors and designed the Capitol Complex with the Secretariat, the High Court, the Legislative Assembly and the Open Hand monument; the first scheme had been drawn by Albert Mayer with Matthew Nowicki before the work passed to him.

Doshi received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018, the first Indian to do so, for a career that began as an assistant to Le Corbusier and produced CEPT University and Sangath in Ahmedabad, the campus of IIM Bangalore and the Aranya low-cost housing at Indore; he was given the Royal…

Lutyens designed the Viceroy House on Raisina Hill, the building that became the Rashtrapati Bhavan after independence, and he also designed the memorial arch now known as India Gate.

Baker designed the circular Council House, later the Sansad Bhavan, which was completed in 1927 and which housed Parliament for almost a century.

The Iranian-Canadian architect designed the temple, completed in 1986, as a flower of twenty-seven marble petals arranged in groups of three, surrounded by nine pools, and it has become one of the most visited buildings in the country.

Correa built the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur on a plan drawn from the nine squares of the traditional mandala, and the Kanchanjunga Apartments in Mumbai as a tower of interlocking flats with deep terraces for shade; he also designed Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal and the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya at…

Baker, born in Britain and later an Indian citizen, settled in Kerala and built houses, hospitals and institutions there using exposed local brick, filler slabs and perforated jaali walls that reduced cost and kept interiors cool without machinery.

Wittet designed the Gateway of India in the Indo-Saracenic style, with a great arch and Gujarati decorative detail, and he also designed the museum in Mumbai now known as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya.

In that year the Capitol Complex at Chandigarh was inscribed as one of the sites making up the transnational property called the Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, spread across several countries, which recognises his contribution to the modern movement.

The American architect designed the Ahmedabad campus with massive exposed brick walls, circular openings and shaded courts that suit the climate of Gujarat, and B. V. Doshi worked closely with him on the project.