4.614 | Fall 2002 | Undergraduate

Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures

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The Tomb of Akbar at Sikandra (1604-13). A pavilion larger than Humayun’s in the center of a larger chahar bagh, this tiered composition of four planes above the plinth creates an horizontal axis that terminates with a cenotaph open to the sky.

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