Herbert Baker

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Herbert Baker was a prominent British architect best known for his role in designing key government buildings in New Delhi during the British colonial period.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British architect
architect
human
architecturalStyle Classical revival architecture
Imperial architecture
collaboratedWith Edwin Lutyens
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
designed North Block, New Delhi
Sansad Bhavan (Parliament House)
surface form: Parliament House, New Delhi

North Block, New Delhi
surface form: Secretariat Building, New Delhi

South Block, Raisina Hill, New Delhi
surface form: South Block, New Delhi

Union buildings, Pretoria
employer Government of British India
surface form: British colonial government in India
familyName Baker
fieldOfWork architecture
givenName Herbert
influencedBy European imperial architectural traditions
classical architecture
knownFor designing key government buildings in New Delhi
work on imperial and colonial government architecture
name Herbert Baker self-link
nationality British
notableForPeriod British colonial period in India
notableWork Rashtrapati Bhavan
surface form: Government House, New Delhi (now Rashtrapati Bhavan complex contributions)

North Block, New Delhi
Sansad Bhavan (Parliament House)
surface form: Parliament House, New Delhi

North Block, New Delhi
surface form: Secretariat Building, New Delhi

South Block, Raisina Hill, New Delhi
surface form: South Block, New Delhi

Union buildings, Pretoria
occupation architect
partOf architectural team for the planning of New Delhi
positionHeld leading architect for British government projects in New Delhi
workLocation New Delhi, India
surface form: New Delhi

South Africa
United Kingdom

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

North Block, New Delhi architect Herbert Baker
Rashtrapati Bhavan architect Herbert Baker
subject surface form: Sansad Bhavan
Union Buildings architect Herbert Baker
New Delhi, India designedBy Herbert Baker
subject surface form: New Delhi
Rajpath (Kartavya Path) designedBy Herbert Baker
subject surface form: Rajpath
Herbert Baker name Herbert Baker self-link