Modern Indian Architecture between pre-independence to independence. The institutional building plans had the same concept of four open courts as in Oxford University Cambridge. Use of exposed brickworks in facades of the buildings, the bricks were used because of their local availability and were climate responsive. Therefore, the brick and concrete architecture spread in different parts of India. The shift from Bombay's image of a Victorian city to an International modern city. Art Deco had rich colors, bold geometric shapes, and lavish ornamentation, which emerged in the interwar period when rapid industrialization was transforming culture.