Vincent Esch

Vincent Jerome Esch
CVO
Born(1876-07-10)10 July 1876
Blackheath, London
Died9 December 1950(1950-12-09) (aged 74)
Surrey
NationalityBritish
OccupationArchitect
AwardsCVO
Buildings

Vincent Jerome Esch, CVO, FRIBA (20 July 1876 – 9 December 1950) was a British architect who worked in India. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Indo-Sarcenic architectural style, which developed during the British rule in the Indian subcontinent.

Born in London, he moved to India in 1898, and was appointed assistant engineer on the Bengal Nagpur Railway before setting himself up as an architect in Calcutta..

In 1914, he was invited to Hyderabad by the Nizam, to design some major public buildings. He designed the Kacheguda railway station, the High Court, the City College, and the Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad.[1] He was in Hyderabad until 1921, then returned to Calcutta. He later returned to England, and died in 1950.

  1. ^ Tillotson, G. H. R. (January 1993). "Vincent J. Esch and the Architecture of Hyderabad, 1914–36". South Asian Studies. 9 (1): 29–46. doi:10.1080/02666030.1993.9628458. ISSN 0266-6030.