Features
- Arches and Domes: - ‘arcuade’ style of architecture replaced Trabeat style of architecture.
- Minars: around the mosques and the mausoleums.
- Mortar: cementing agent
- Natural Figurines: were used. Human and Animal figures are avoided.
- Spaciousness, massiveness and breadth of buildings and structures.
- Calligraphy: used as a means of decoration as well as
- Arabesque method - use of geometrical ornamentation.
- Decorations followed a symmetrical pattern.
- Jaali work: a feature allowing light into the structures.
- Water: pools in the premises of the building- for cooling, decorative and religious purposes.
- Charbagh style of gardening: in which a square block is divided into 4 adjacent identical gardens.
- Foreshortening technique: - inscriptions appear to be closer than it really is.
- Pietra Dura and Mosaic designs: using cut and fitted highly polished gems and stones.
- Local architects retained certain flavours of the local architectural traditions as well
- Delhi Sultanate: Qutb Minar, Quwwat Ul Islam Mosque, Alai Darwaza, Lodi Gardens etc.,
- Mughals: Taj Mahal, Red fort, Fatehpur sikri etc.,
- Deccan sultanate: Gol Gumbaz, Char minar, Golconda fort etc.,
- Provincial: Adina Mosque, Atala Mosque etc.
- Southern Indian structures like Mysore palace
- buildings under British like Parliament, Victoria terminus etc.,
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