Deori Mahdi Nawaz Jung

Von Molte-Heinz, Karl

dc.coverage.spatial	Site: Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India)	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	creation date: 1927-1931	en_US
dc.creator	Von Molte-Heinz, Karl	en_US
dc.date	1927-1931	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-10-01T15:50:53Z
dc.date.available	2009-10-01T15:50:53Z
dc.date.issued	1927-1931	en_US
dc.identifier	134156	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/43626	en_US
dc.description	Mahdi Nawaz Jang (1894-1967), scion of the Bilgrami family, minister in the State cabinets during the 1950s, 1960s. He built the deori appropriately named Kohistan, on Road number 04 at Banjara Hills amidst the rocks and boulders that characterize the area and persuaded others to do so. In fact, he developed the Banjara Hills area into the most desired location for homes of the elite. Evidently, a German architect Karl von Molte-Heinz designed it. The natural rocks on the hill on which the house is built define the basic theme of spatial organization: an enchanted world of grottos and caves, an underground dwelling, which is half nature, half culture. In the basement, the spaces are carved out of the rock; at times they are obtained from natural cleavages. The openings, roughly cut in the rock are framed by columns with Ionic capitals, elaborated with great precision, projecting from the rock surface, painted white in contrast to the natural texture of the stone. The deori celebrates nature, rather than impose culture on it. Poet Hafiz Jallandhari immortalized this mansion in his 1932 poem Nazara-yi Kohistan as did Rabindranath Tagore a year later in his poem Kohistan.	en_US
dc.description	exterior	en_US
dc.format.medium	masonry	en_US
dc.format.medium	stone	en_US
dc.format.medium	plaster	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	130723	en_US
dc.rights	(c) Husain Mahdi	en_US
dc.subject	Caves	en_US
dc.subject	Rocks	en_US
dc.subject	Boulder	en_US
dc.subject	Mansions	en_US
dc.subject	Nature	en_US
dc.subject	Islamic cities and towns	en_US
dc.subject	Architecture, Islamic --India	en_US
dc.subject	Residential architecture	en_US
dc.subject	Hyderabad (India)	en_US
dc.subject	Organic architecture	en_US
dc.title	Deori Mahdi Nawaz Jung	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Deori Mahdi Nawaz Jang	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Kohistan	en_US
dc.title.alternative	House of Begum Srimati Tahera	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	All rights reserved	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	ScanImage14	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Indian (South Asian)	en_US
vra.technique	construction	en_US
vra.worktype	Mansion	en_US
dc.contributor.display	architect: Karl Von Molte-Heinz (German, 1904-1971)	en_US