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| '''] Ahmad Lahauri''' ({{lang-fa|استاد احمد لاهوری}}) was an architect. He was chief architect of the Taj Mahal in Agra , India. built between 1632 and 1648. | |||
| He has been described as an architect in the court of ]. | |||
| == Life == | |||
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| ]'s court histories emphasise his personal involvement in the construction and it is true that, more than any other Mughal emperor, he showed the greatest interest in building, holding daily meetings with his architects and supervisors. The court chronicler Lahouri, writes that Shah Jahan would make "appropriate alterations to whatever the skilful architects designed after many thoughts, and asked competent questions."<ref name="K89">Koch, p.89</ref> | |||
| In writings by Lahauri's son Lutfullah Muhandis, two architects are mentioned by name; Ustad Ahmad Lahauri<ref name="unesco"></ref><ref name="B65">Begley and Desai (1989), p.65</ref> and ].<ref name="A212">Asher, p.212</ref> Ustad Ahmad Lahauri had laid the foundations of the ] at Delhi (built between 1638 and 1648). Mir Abd-ul Karim had been the favourite architect of the previous emperor ] and is mentioned as a supervisor, together with ],<ref name="A212"/> for the construction of the ].<ref name="CHS">{{cite web| url =http://constructionhistory.bosenet.com/uploadfiles/chs_newsletter_63.pdf_1.pdf | title =Construction history society newsletter | accessdate =2007-07-23 | author =| last =Dunkeld | first =Malcolm (Ed)| authorlink = |date= June 2007 | format = | work = | publisher = Chartered Institute of Building| pages = | archiveurl =| archivedate =}}</ref> | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| * ] | |||
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| *{{cite book| last = Asher | first = Catherine Ella Blanshard | title = ], Vol I:4 - Architecture of Mughal India | type = Hardback | edition = First published 1992, reprinted 2001,2003 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge | isbn = 0-521-26728-5 | pages =368| year = 1992 | origyear = 2003 }} | |||
| *{{cite journal | quotes = | last = Begley | first = Wayne | authorlink = |date= March 1979 | title = The myth of the Taj-Mahal and a new theory of its symbolic meaning | journal = Art Bulletin | volume = 61| issue = 1 | |||
| | pages = 7–37| pmid = | doi = 10.2307/3049862| id = | language = | format = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = | publisher = The Art Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 1| jstor = 3049862 }} | |||
| *{{cite book| last = Begley | first = Wayne E. |author2=Desai, Z.A. | title = Taj Mahal - The Illumined Tomb| type = Hardback | edition = | publisher = University of Washington Press | location = | isbn = 978-0-295-96944-2 | pages =392| year = 1989 | origyear = 1989 }} | |||
| *{{cite web| url = http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.tcl?document_id=3688| title = Four Mughal Caravanserais Built during the Reigns of Jahangir and Shah Jahan | accessdate = 2007-07-24| last = Begley| first = Wayne E.| editor=Grabar, Oleg | year = 1983| format = pdf| work = Muqarnas Volume I: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture |publisher = Yale University Press (Newhaven)| pages =167–180}} | |||
| *{{cite book| last = Koch | first = Ebba | authorlink = Ebba Koch | title = The Complete Taj Mahal: And the Riverfront Gardens of Agra| type = Hardback| edition = First| publisher = Thames & Hudson Ltd | location = | isbn = 0-500-34209-1| pages = 288 pages| year = 2006 | origyear = Aug 2006 }} | |||
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