students walking along a sunlit passageway with plants all around

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India. 

Balkrishna V. Doshi / Vāstu Shilpā. 

The Project of Independence


These photographs were commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York for:

The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985


Exhibition Catalogue


A selection of these photographs were acquired by MoMA in 2023.

interior of living room with two chairs

Kamala House, Ahmedabad, India.

Balkrishna V. Doshi / Vāstu Shilpā.


man walking up stair to a concrete building

Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, India. 

Balkrishna V. Doshi / Vāstu Shilpā.


crowded market with large concrete building behind

Premabhai Hall, Ahmedabad, India. 

Balkrishna V. Doshi / Vāstu Shilpā and Mahendra Raj.


fortress

Dudhsagar Dairy, Mehsana, India.

Achyut Kanvinde and Shaukat Rai.


concrete cricket stadium with players

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, India. 

Charles Correa and Mahendra Raj.


underside of concrete bleachers with a man watching

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, India.

Charles Correa and Mahendra Raj.

tall beige building with a road infront

Kanchanjunga Apartments, Mumbai, India.

Charles Correa.

red and blue wall with bench and shoes

Kanchanjunga Apartments, Mumbai, India.

Charles Correa.

Shri Ram Centre for Art and Culture, New Delhi, India. 

Shivnath Prasad and Mahendra Raj.

orange glass frames with ramp

University of Dhaka Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Muzharul Islam.

library with long table of students studying

University of Dhaka Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Muzharul Islam.

College of Ats and Crafts (Institute of Fine Arts), University of Dhaka Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Muzharul Islam.

brick building that looks like a ruin

Chittagong University, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Muzharul Islam. 

brick building that looks like a ruin

Chittagong University, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Muzharul Islam. 

multiple textures of stone and concrete

India International Centre, New Delhi, India.

Joseph Allen Stein.


auditorium interior with honeycomb ceiling and fabric seats

India International Centre, New Delhi, India.

Joseph Allen Stein.

concrete grid facade with garden infront

Golconde Guesthouse, Pondicherry, India.

Antonin Raymond, George Nakashima, François Sammer and Chandulal Shah.

Golconde Guesthouse, Pondicherry, India.

Antonin Raymond, George Nakashima, François Sammer and Chandulal Shah.


sail shaped railway station on a clear day with passengers in the foreground.

Kamalapur Railway Station, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Louis Berger and Consulting Engineers. Daniel Dunham and Robert Boughey.

concrete building with plants

National Cooperative Development Corporation Office Building, New Delhi, India.

Kuldip Singh and Mahendra Raj. 

blue building with yellow taxi

New Secretariat Building, Kolkata, India.

Habib Rahman.

large concrete building along a road

New Delhi Municipal Corporation Headquarters, New Delhi, India.

Kuldip Singh and Mahendra Raj.

crowd of people in a busy market with concrete structure above

Koyambedu Flower Market, Chennai, India.

Kuldip Singh and Mahendra Raj.

elevated concrete walkway under brick building

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Achyut Kanvinde and Shaukat Rai.

white slender structure against a blue sky with people walking around

Gandhi Ghat, Barrackpore, Calcutta, India.

Habib Rahman.

concrete structure with plants infront

Shell House, Karachi, Pakistan.

Habib Fida Ali.

white building with red roof at the edge of a pond with trees around

Ceylon Steel Corporation Office Building, Oruwala, Sri Lanka.

Geoffrey Bawa and Ulrik Plesner.

shaded space with trees and a white building

Lunuganga Estate, Bentota, Sri Lanka.

Geoffrey Bawa.

brick screen facade

Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India.

Laurie Baker.

circular red brick building

India Coffee House, Trivandrum, India.

Laurie Baker.

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