RED FORT

RED FORT

Subject : Architecture / Culture

Context : Farmers protesting against new agriculture laws in India broke through police barricades around the capital and entered the grounds of Delhi’s historic Red Fort , in chaotic and violent scenes that overshadowed the country’s Republic Day celebrations.

Concept :

• Red fort fuses architectural styles of the Timurids and the Persians.
• Red Fort has many structures that serve as fine examples of Islamic architectural style and Mughal architecture,
• Built By: Shah Jahan
• Architect:Ustad Ahmad Lahauri Architectural styles: Mughal, Indo-Islamic Current
• Status: UNESCO World Heritage Site On the Banks of River Yamuna,
• The Red Fort is known for its gardens and a water channel called The Stream of Paradise.

Indian Indo Islamic Architecture:

• The Indo-Islamic architecture inculcates the elements of Saracenic, Turkish and Arab architecture
• The first new element added in the Indian architecture was the use of shapes instead of natural forms. This apart, use of calligraphy as inscriptional art was also a new element added to by Muslims
• Inlay decoration and use of coloured marble, painted plaster and brilliantly glazed tiles.

Salient Features of Indo-Islamic Architecture:

• Islamic Architecture is characterised by a few Visible Symbols.
• One is the arch, which frames the space;
• second symbol is the dome, which looms over the skyscape;
• third is the Minaret, which pierces the skies. Minarets were Actually Symbols in the Middle of Deserts
• Muslims forbidden to replicate living forms on any surface, developed their religious art and architecture consisting of the arts of arabesque, geometrical patterns and calligraphy on plaster and stone.

Indo-Islamic architecture is conventionally categorised into the following four Categories:

• Imperial Style (Delhi Sultanate)
• Provincial Style (Mandu, Gujarat, Bengal, and Jaunpur)
• Mughal Style (Delhi, Agra, and Lahore)
• Deccani Style (Bijapur, Golconda).