Swiss-French painter, writer, and architect Le Corbusier, who designed and developed Chandigarh in the 1950s. Le Corbusier designed The Palace of Assembly, the Capitol Complex, and the Secretariat.
1. Le Corbusier
Instead of using marble in India International Centre’s design, Joseph Allen Stein used local and natural materials. He intended the structure to stand for relationships between the occupants rather than objects.
2. Joseph Allen Stein
Louis Kahn’s Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad is an expansive 102-acre university with exposed brick finish elevations sourced locally. It was built in 1962-1974.
3. Louis Kahn
The lotus’ shape served as the model for the Lotus Temple, a Bahá'í house of worship in New Delhi. Iranian-American architect Fariborz Sahba designed the temple in 1986.
4. Fariborz Sahba
British-born Indian architect Laurie Baker designed the St. John's Cathedral, reminiscent of a temple. The design was inspired by Keralan traditional architecture and temple architecture.
5. Laurie Baker
French architect Roger Anger designed Auroville's Matrimandir as a place of spiritual significance for yoga practitioners. The building is shaped like a geodesic dome with twelve petals surrounding it.
6. Roger Anger
The Rajkumari Rajnavati Girl's School in Jaisalmer is an astonishing locally sourced sandstone marvel created by Diana Kellog through her eponymous architecture firm.
7. Diana Kellog
British architect Edwin Lutyens in association with Herbert Baker designed the Viceroy’s House, later renamed Rashtrapati Bhavan and India Gate. He also aided the layout and construction of modern Delhi.
8. Edwin Lutyens
Golconde dormitory, or Golconde; the first modernist building in India is the brainchild of Czech architect Antonin Raymond and Japanese-American woodworker George Nakashima, located in Auroville.
9. Antonin Raymond & George Nakashima
Berlin-born Otto Koenigsberger was hired by Tata & Sons to develop Jamshedpur's industrial township in the early 1940s. He also created the master plans for Faridabad (1949) and Bhubaneswar (1948).