PAHA is a publicly accessible digital archive of architectural records and oral histories of Pune’s built environment. PAHA’s collections are organised according to provenance and named after the architect or the firm which created the original documents and/or the current custodians of the physical items. Within each collection diverse media are either gathered under building projects or as miscellaneous items.

Navigate through the collections or explore our filters to search across collections and hierarchies!

(this will be a pop-up window under search bar, on the custom search page)

Some search tips and instructions:

PAHA utilizes linked open vocabulary dataset of Getty Art & Architectural Thesaurus to describe certain metadata properties of the digitized items. That means certain information is described using standardized terms, which may or may not be familiar to everyone. Therefore, the following information and guidelines are provided to make searching through the archive easier:

The term ‘Apartment houses’ covers the apartment buildings which also have mixed use commercial spaces, typically on the ground floor and residential spaces on the rest of the floors, that are commonly found in Pune.

We have written this style guide (hyperlink) for more information on the architectural styles.

For a more detailed description of the collection arrangement, refer to this document.