Critical regionalism is an architectural approach that looking towards correct sterile and abstract modernism by using
contextual forces that focus on local needs, native desires and potential. As Economic process disrupts and displaces local
building traditions in India’s metropolitan cities, critical regionalism offers resistance to the homogenizing forces of global
modernism. This paper analyses of key architectural projects realised in Lucknow since 1857 to 1947 that incorporate the ideas
of critical regionalism in their designs. The different approaches adopted by regionalist architects in dealing with native climate,
topography, materials and socialism complexes are given. By limiting itself to regionalist works in city, the paper tries to
spotlight that important regionalism isn't a set of aesthetic preferences however a philosophical framework capable of
manufacturing various kinds of architecture despite analogous external influences arising from similar site conditions.
