Sentence examples for colonial influences from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bawa did not reject colonial influences of the Portuguese, British or Dutch if they stood up to architectural scrutiny.

The rapid growth of cities, the influx of "foreign" and colonial influences combined with anxiety about the spread of (sexually transmitted) disease underpin many elements of the plot.

Mark Moorhead Sri Lanka's celebrated architect, Geoffrey Bawa, coined a tropical modernism style based on Sri Lanka's multi-ethnic traditional and colonial influences.

Nevertheless, an examination of selected colonial influences and national architectural identities reveals much about the diversity and plurality of postcolonial Africa.

Using little-studied objects from the Metropolitan Museum's Islamic collection, it looks at art produced in India, Iran and Iraq in the 18th and 19th centuries, when Western colonial influences were flowing in.

But, like Achebe, he also gave voice to a culture under rapid and destructive change from colonial influences, and he expressed a disillusionment with the violence that marred the post-colonial project.

European colonial influence was responsible for the appearance of museums elsewhere.

Like Laos, the French colonial influence is best sampled in the freshly baked bread.

And for good reason: Belarus is the last vestige of Russia's colonial influence westward.

Name check • The southern state of Kerala led the way in changing place names to remove the colonial influence.

From the 16th to the 20th century the river formed a route of advance for French colonial influence.