Bombay has conventionally been associated with Art Deco architecture, always compared to and competing with cities like Miami. While the city certainly displays a large collection of buildings identified in this style, this lecture expands the appreciation of Art Deco in India by demonstrating its ubiquity all over the country.

In this lecture we will look at its early adoption, as a kind of High Indian Art Deco, by some princely states, and then move to the more quotidian expressions of this architecture by the Indian Middle classes. We will also further our gaze beyond our shores to see similar kind of building designs becoming popular in cities dotting the edge of the Indian ocean.

Mustansir Dalvi is Professor of Architecture at Sir J. J. College of Architecture. He has post graduate qualifications in Architecture and Indian Aesthetics from the University of Mumbai.

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