Introduction The stratified construction of Qasim Khan’s tomb, into the Governor’s House at Lahore, Punjab, echoes the broader colonial system of maintaining difference between the ruler and the ruled through the process of building in the Indo-Saracenic style. While the common post-colonial reading of the Indo-Saracenic style has been often interpreted as a political strategy […]
Introduction The role of public architecture serving as a channel for filtering nineteenth-century French ideals is explored in the town hall of Annaba. Public architecture, such as town halls, schools, or chambers of commerce1, were built as a reflection of colonial strength, consequently resulting in many buildings related to administration expressing the “aesthetic revolution imported […]