Review: The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962

Book Review| June 01 2024 Review: The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962 Gauvin Alexander Bailey. The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022, 488 pp. , 2 maps, 206 color illus. 75 (cloth), ISBN 9780228011422 Jocelyn Anderson Jocelyn Anderson JR Shaw Institute for Art in Canada, Glenbow Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (2): 236–237. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 2. 236 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2024; 83 (2): 236–237. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 2. 236 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Gauvin Alexander Bailey's The Architecture of Empire begins with two eloquent, richly pictorial descriptions that immediately draw the reader into the book's deeply ambitious and complex project. The Palais du Gouvernement in Pondicherry (today Puducherry) was begun in 1738, completed in 1752, and destroyed by the British in 1761, while the Palais du Gouvernement Général in Saigon (today Ho Chi Minh City) was built ca. 1875–79, became a presidential palace after Vietnamese independence in 1954, and was demolished in 1962 after being damaged by a bombing. Through the stories of these two buildings, the reader is introduced to the vast scope of the book. In exploring the history of architecture built in the French Empire in Asia, Bailey addresses two imperial eras, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and then the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as two regions divided by thousands of kilometers, the Indian subcontinent and. . . You do not currently have access to this content.