Robert Chisholm (architect)

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Robert Chisholm
Born
Robe Fellowes Chisholm

(1840-01-11)11 January 1840
Indo-Saracenic
style

Robert Fellowes Chisholm (11 January 1840 – 28 May 1915) was a British architect who pioneered the

Madras
.

Early life

Chisholm was born in

Calcutta, India and moved to Madras in 1865, where he was appointed head of the school of industrial art.[1]

Career

Napier Museum was designed by Robert Chisholm

In that same year, 1865, Chisholm began to design the older building of Presidency College, Madras. He initially constructed buildings in the Renaissance and Gothic styles of architecture.

Indo-Saracenic or Muslim style of architecture.[4][5] Chisholm later emerged as a pioneer in the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture.[6][7]

Chisholm also constructed the Lawrence Asylum buildings (1865),

Laxmi Vilas Palace in Baroda (Vadodara) during 1880–90. He returned to London in 1902, where his best-known London building is Cadogan Hall (originally First Church of Christ, Scientist), near Sloane Square. He also designed an uncompleted Indian Museum in Belvedere Road, Lambeth, London.[1]

Death

Chisholm died on 28 May 1915 at Southsea at the age of 75.[1]

Notes

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T017273
    . Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  2. ISBN 0029250005
    .
  3. ^ Muthiah, pp. 166–168
  4. ISBN 978-0816670376
    .
  5. ^ Morley, Ian (2008). British provincial civic design and the building of late-Victorian and Edwardian cities, 1880–1914. Edwin Mellen Press. p. 278.
  6. ^
    ISBN 1843531038
    .
  7. ^ a b Jeyaraj, George J. "Indo-Saracenic Architecture in Chennai" (PDF). Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority.
  8. ^ Anand, G. (30 September 2011). "Museum band stand mayecho martial music again". The Hindu. Chennai, India.
  9. ^ Muthiah, S. (3 September 2006). "Magnificience Restored". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Archived from the original on 30 December 2007.
  10. ^ Muthiah, p 62
  11. ^ Muthiah, p 170
  12. ^ Muthiah, p 155
  13. ^ a b Daniel, S. J. (1903). "A Brief History of the Madras School of Arts". In Clibborn, John; Radice, C. A.; Enthoven, Reginald Edward; Westcott, Foss (eds.). Report on Industrial Education Part II Proceedings of Conferences (PDF). Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. pp. 171–174. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

References

External links

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