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Ustad Ahmad Lahori was the chief architect during Shah Jahan's reign and besides the construction of Taj Mahal and Red Fort.!
Ustad Ahmad Lahori
17th century Mughal chief architect (1580-1649)
Ustad Ahmad Lahori (c.1580–1649),[1] also known as Ahmad Ma'mar Lahori, was a Mughal architect and engineer during the reign of Shah Jahan.
He was responsible for the construction of several Mughal monuments, including the Red fort in Delhi, a World Heritage site.
Ustad Ahmad Lahori was the chief Mughal architect and engineer.
His architecture is a combination of Indo-Islamic and Persian architectural styles, and thus, a major instance of Indo-Persian culture.
Life
Ustad Ahmad Lahori hailed from Lahore, Lahore Subah, as his nisba indicates.[2] He has been described as a Punjabi[3] and an Indian of Iranian heritage.[4][5] Even after his family's migration to Delhi, his family is still referred to by the epithet "Lahori".[6]
Ahmad Lahori hailed from a family of Timurid architects, originally from Herat.
He was a skilled engineer who later in life was given the title of Nadir-ul-Asar ("wonder of the ag