Bhai Ram Singh practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Bhai Ram Singh as Indian architect.
Bhai Ram Singh was born at Rasulpur in 1858. His recorded nationality is India. He trained at National College of Arts.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in India shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Bhai Ram Singh died in 1916, aged 58. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at National College of Arts
