The Art in The Architecture of Visva-Bharati

This research paper is a journey through a dry, barren land that turns up to a symbolic green, ecofriendly and ecological architecture. After adopting this land from the Jaminder of Raipur for meditation, MaharshiDebendranath Tagore founded an ‘Ashrama’ in 1963 that gradually spread its wings and became the eternal matrix of world culture. Architecture at Santiniketan got into a rhythm when Rabindranath Tagore came to build an international school on 1901. The school was a beautiful experimentation of educational system and with the development of the school, there evolved an experimental architectural form which essentially portrayed Indian architectural ethos. As Rabindranath Tagore was an ambassador of internationalism, he made a unification of diverse cultural forms, being influenced from different canvases of world culture. One of the key components of this amalgamation was architecture with interior and furniture design. He made the architecture of Santiniketan an evidence of interrelationship of art, craft, science, technology and nature. It’s a parallel journey of global brick house and a local mud house. The most important thing is that, the architecture or the constructions never possess or rule over the nature because here, the relationship between nature and architecture is like mother and child. When, now-a-days, modern architects think about ecofriendly architecture, they can surely inspiration from Gurudev's concept of ecological architecture which was far beyond the time.