Gauvin Bailey's new book: a close look at imperialist architecture

Prof. Gauvin Bailey's latest book, The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962 (McGill-Queen's University Press) is available starting in July 2022. 

"Offering a sweeping panorama of the buildings of France’s colonial project, this is the first study to encompass the architecture of both the ancien régime and modern empires, from the founding of the French trading company in the seventeenth century to the independence and nationalist movements of the mid-twentieth century."

In its consideration of public architecture in French-imperialist India, Siam, and Vietnam, The Architecture of Empire also places a focus on the architects themselves, almost all of whom remain relatively unknown.

Full details are available via McGill-Queen's University Press.