Chris Moffat teaches History at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of India’s Revolutionary Inheritance (2019), editor of The Time of Building (2023) and co-editor of Lahore in Motion (2025). Lahore after Modernism, his new book on architecture and its histories in Pakistan, will be published by Stanford University Press in 2026.
Chris Moffat
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Walking Lahore, Watching the World
The new mosque’s central dome dominates the town’s skyline, but competes with an 80-metre-high replica Eiffel Tower, and a scale reproduction of Trafalgar Square.
Living with the Future in South Asia
For decades, South Asian architecture was impelled by the promise of a new society after empire. Now, such buildings are being demolished.
Fill the Halls: Space and Possibility in Lahore, Pakistan
Lahore today can feel like a city of security checks and gated passages, tall walls and …
