Movement
Mughal Architecture
Explore in the Atlas →The Indo-Islamic court architecture of the Mughal dynasty across the Indian subcontinent, fusing Persian, Timurid and indigenous Indian sources into symmetrical garden-tombs, mosques and palaces of red sandstone and white marble with pietra dura inlay, chhatris and pishtaqs. Conceived as an instrument of imperial self-representation, it reached its classical phase under Shah Jahan with the Taj Mahal.
Memory Ritual Power
Details
- Origin
- Indian subcontinent
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmologyAncestry
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- MandalaCardinal axes
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipText drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Islamic menaSouth asianCross cultural cosmological
Referenced by
- Taj Mahal exemplifies
Sources
- Ebba Koch. Mughal Architecture: An Outline of its History and Development (1526–1858). Prestel, 1991.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Mughal Architecture." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/mughal-architecture/. Accessed July 17, 2026.