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    The document discusses how cultural adaptation shaped Bengal architecture over time from 1204-1576. Key developments include the adoption of Persian and Byzantine construction techniques in the early period. Later architectures like the Adina Mosque incorporated local materials and styles like curved cornices and domes that symbolized rural hut designs. The Elakkhi Tomb introduced mixed structural systems with thinner walls. Later structures like the Chamkatti Mosque and Shat Gambuj Mosque refined designs with repeating prototypes and decorative elements that came to define distinct Bengal architectural styles.

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    HOW CULTURAL ADAPTATION SHAPE OUR BENGAL ARCHITECTURE THROUGH TIME AND HISTORY

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    Adaptation of Bengal architecture

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    The document discusses how cultural adaptation shaped Bengal architecture over time from 1204-1576. Key developments include the adoption of Persian and Byzantine construction techniques in the early period. Later architectures like the Adina Mosque incorporated local materials and styles like curved cornices and domes that symbolized rural hut designs. The Elakkhi Tomb introduced mixed structural systems with thinner walls. Later structures like the Chamkatti Mosque and Shat Gambuj Mosque refined designs with repeating prototypes and decorative elements that came to define distinct Bengal architectural styles.

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    The document discusses how cultural adaptation shaped Bengal architecture over time from 1204-1576. Key developments include the adoption of Persian and Byzantine construction techniques in the early period. Later architectures like the Adina Mosque incorporated local materials and styles like curved cornices and domes that symbolized rural hut designs. The Elakkhi Tomb introduced mixed structural systems with thinner walls. Later structures like the Chamkatti Mosque and Shat Gambuj Mosque refined designs with repeating prototypes and decorative elements that came to define distinct Bengal architectural styles.

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    HOW CULTURAL ADAPTATION SHAPE OUR BENGAL

    ARCHITECTURE?
    1204
    Era of the Governors
    ▪ Persian & Byzantine construction
    technique adapted by local masons
    ▪ Built by local brick except structural
    elements

    Indo-Islamic Style
    ▪ Stone cladding for durability &
    aesthetics

    Zafar Khan Gazi mosque

    1339
    First regime of Ilias Shahi Family ▪ Adapting the Persian & Arabic spatial
    organization
    ▪ Built by local brick with stone

    Indo-Islamic Style
    foundation

    Adina Mosque

    1412
    The regime of King Ganasha and Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah
    ▪ Representation of rural hut
    having curved cornice for
    rainwater drainage and
    Bengal Style

    symbolized the pitched roof


    ▪ Achieved the acceptance from the
    local mass
    ▪ The corner minarets with circular
    bands represented the bamboo
    support in huts
    ▪ Revolutionary dome size
    ▪ Minimalist in design approach
    and cost efficient
    ▪ Entirely built on bricks
    Elakkhi Tomb
    1436
    1436
    Second regime of Ilias Shahi Family ▪ Introduction of mixed
    structural system
    ▪ An additional approach
    verandah with the main
    prayer area

    Bengal Style
    ▪ Thinner wall less than 1.5m
    wide by using squinch
    ▪ Chowchala vault at the
    central grid of verandah
    represents both local
    heritage and structural
    symbolism
    ▪ Use of stone beneath
    arches and at base for
    structural strength
    Chamkatti mosque

    ▪ Developed an
    repeating prototype

    Khan Jahan Style


    composed of
    pendentive and
    dome to generate
    horizontal expansion
    of prayer space
    ▪ Rectangular
    chowchala vault at
    the central grid
    ▪ Use of curved
    cornice

    Shat Gambuj mosque

    1486
    Regime of Hossain Shahi Family

    ▪ Rich and detailed façade


    decoration
    Bengal Style

    Choto Sona mosque

    1576

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