Question

Name the two architects who designed New delhi and Shahjahanabad?

Answer 1

New Delhi was constructed as a 10-square-mile city on Raisina Hill, south of the existing city. Two architects, Edward Lutyens and Herbert Baker, were called on to design New Delhi and its buildings.

Answer 2

ANSWER:

Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker

EXPLANATION:

   Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker were famous English architects who played a key and instrumental role in designing and building the cities of Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi) and New Delhi, which in 1931 was the capital of the British and later (post India's independence)went on to serve as the official headquarters of the Indian Government. In appreciation of Edwin's contribution, New Delhi is otherwise known as 'Lutyens' Delhi'.

  Sir Edwin Lutyens collaborated with "Sir Herbert Baker", to design and build severalkey "monuments in New Delhi" like the Viceroy's House which today is known as the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, the India Gate, the South/NorthSecretariat Blocks,the Parliament House, among other buildings. Working from 1912 to 1931 Herbert and Lutyens fashioned a new style of architecture for the cities, coalescing the neo-Classical with accents taken from Buddhist past and India's Mughal.