SoCultures Magazine 2018 Vol 1 | Page 29

SoCultures October 2018 India & France THE BAROQUE STORY France & Baroque Architecture Versilles palace : By Marc Vassal - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93888 France is known to appreciate and preserve its historical heritage of castles, cathedrals, abbeys and more but is also a heaven for contemporary experimental, conceptual projects with objective to explore original conventional school of thought and develop ingenious, cutting-edge design tools and methodologies in architecture. Architects have a boundless imagination when it comes to building sites that add value to their regions personalities which also showcase the history, heritage, rural elements, and its communities. 29 | P a g e