Imperial City - ACE094.5

Plans for city layout. Sketches and notes by Lutyens on Viceroy’s palace; Lutyens’s view of what Wren might have done VO. Photographs of finished building and stages in construction. Commentary points out that work was more or less stopped because of conflicting priorities during First World War. Photographs of Parliament House under construction and completed. Photographs over the new city. Baker. Parliament House, exemplifying Baker’s idea that content in art was more important than form. Government House: VO Baker’s words on British sovereignty, "…a blend of the best elements of East and West…", and the designs for the new capital. Modern building site. VO Lutyens’s words on representing "modern India in stone" and need to graft on Western architectural ideas.