Architecture after Independence

State University of Performing and Visual Arts (SUPVA)

Architect: Raj Rewal
Location: Rohtak, Haryana

1835 Vaibhav Ananda Kadam

Humanities Sem 5
Sir J.J. College of Architecture
• The Reason to choose this Institutional campus building is that it helped
the city waking up to its potential and undergoing massive change as an
envisaged educational hub of Haryana.
• This architecture offers a conscious layering of tradition, culture and
identity within an aesthetic ethos of Modernism.
• It has huge impact because rewal added dexterity in traditional narratives
of scale and materials (Red and Buff Sandstone for cladding and Duotone
grain as Paving).
• The grid pattern is not only used in space planning but also in paving
pattern, roof, elevation treatment and more.
• Structure striking elements refer to Sun Temple, Sanchi Stupa, etc.

Symbolic Features and Modernism

Raj Rewal’s this structure
is very important for the
state and it eventually
offered some resistance
to global architecture
model consumed by the
flow of capital at the time
build after Independence
of India.