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Book Synopsis Essays in Early Indian Architecture by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Essays in Early Indian Architecture written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coomaraswamy's contribution to the history of Architecture in India was limited but profound. In particular, his probing analysis of texts and sculpted reliefs in order to reconstruct the extraordinary wooden architecture of early India was an act of great scholarship. That three ofCoomaraswamy's essays were published in a journal, Eastern Art, that ceased publication after only three issues, and that an important fourth essay on 'Huts and Related Temple Types' survived only in manuscript have made access to Coomaraswamy's work in this area difficult to students and scholars.This volume for the first time brings together these four major essays along with Coomaraswamy's analysis of 'Indian Architectural Terms'. An introductory essay by Michael W Meister on 'The Language and Process of Early Indian Architecture' connects Coomaraswamy's foundational essays with morerecent scholarship on the origination of India's vast tradition of temple architecture. An Afterword, with Joseph Rykwert on 'Adam's House and Hermit Huts' presents a conversation with a major western architectural historian.
Book Synopsis Essays on Indian Art and Architecture by : Raj Kumar
Download or read book Essays on Indian Art and Architecture written by Raj Kumar and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction, Studies in Indian Architecture, Fort Architecture in Ancient and Medieval India, Art and Architecture: Northern India, Art and Architecture: South India, The Aspect and Orientation in Hindu Architecture, Kalinga Style of Architecture, Symbolism of the Dome, Art and Architecture, Muslim Architecture in India, A Plea for Indian Architecture.
Book Synopsis Symbolism of Indian Architecture by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Symbolism of Indian Architecture written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of article published in the Indian historical quarterly, v. 14, 1938, under the title, Symbolism of the dome.
Book Synopsis Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús by : Ram Raz
Download or read book Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús written by Ram Raz and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early Indian Architecture by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Early Indian Architecture written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus by : Rām Rāz
Download or read book Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus written by Rām Rāz and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays in Early Indian Architecture by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Essays in Early Indian Architecture written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coomaraswamy's contribution to the history of Architecture in India was limited but profound. In particular, his probing analysis of texts and sculpted reliefs in order to reconstruct the extraordinary wooden architecture of early India was an act of great scholarship. That three ofCoomaraswamy's essays were published in a journal, Eastern Art, that ceased publication after only three issues, and that an important fourth essay on 'Huts and Related Temple Types' survived only in manuscript have made access to Coomaraswamy's work in this area difficult to students and scholars.This volume for the first time brings together these four major essays along with Coomaraswamy's analysis of 'Indian Architectural Terms'. An introductory essay by Michael W Meister on 'The Language and Process of Early Indian Architecture' connects Coomaraswamy's foundational essays with morerecent scholarship on the origination of India's vast tradition of temple architecture. An Afterword, with Joseph Rykwert on 'Adam's House and Hermit Huts' presents a conversation with a major western architectural historian.
Book Synopsis Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus by : Rám Ráz
Download or read book Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus written by Rám Ráz and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early Indian Architecture by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Early Indian Architecture written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays in Architectural Theory by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Essays in Architectural Theory written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) pioneered one form of "cultural studies" early in this century, not as an anthropologist but as an advocate of "the idea of Tradition". His penetrating attention to both the substance and mind of India's great civilizations has provided several generations of Asian and European scholars a variety of models: that of the geologist, carefully attentive to facts and strata; that of the art historian, embedding chronology and variation within regional and cultural contexts; and that of the philosopher, weaving together texts from both eastern and western traditions to demonstrate what he in his later years called a "philosophia perennis". This second volume, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: Essays in Architectural Theory, presents in consecutive form the essays that best represent Coomaraswamy's rapidly developing thinking on the hermeneutics of architecture - its "why" not "how". These can best be understood in the order in which they were written. As Michael W. Meister says in his Preface, "Only by being presented in such a fashion can Coomaraswamy's architectural ideas accumulate a structure comparable to their substance.
Download or read book India written by Peter Scriver and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A place of astonishing contrasts, India is home to some of the world’s most ancient architectures as well as some of its most modern. It was the focus of some of the most important works created by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, among other lesser-known masters, and it is regarded by many as one of the key sites of mid-twentieth century architectural design. As Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastava show in this book, however, India’s history of modern architecture began long before the nation’s independence as a modern state in 1947. Going back to the nineteenth century, Scriver and Srivastava look at the beginnings of modernism in colonial India and the ways that public works and patronage fostered new design practices that directly challenged the social order and values invested in the building traditions of the past. They then trace how India’s architecture embodies the dramatic shifts in Indian society and culture during the last century. Making sense of a broad range of sources, from private papers and photographic collections to the extensive records of the Indian Public Works Department, they provide the most rounded account of modern architecture in India that has yet been available.
Book Synopsis The Hermit's Hut by : Kazi K. Ashraf
Download or read book The Hermit's Hut written by Kazi K. Ashraf and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hermit’s Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is typically considered separate from asceticism. In contrast, this innovative book explores the rich and mutual ways in which asceticism and architecture are played out in each other’s practices. The question of asceticism is also considered—as neither a religious discourse nor a specific cultural tradition but as a perennial issue in the practice of culture. The work convincingly traces the influences from early Indian asceticism to Zen Buddhism to the Japanese teahouse—the latter opening the door to modern minimalism. As the book’s title suggests, the protagonist of the narrative is the nondescript hermit’s hut. Relying primarily on Buddhist materials, the author provides a complex narrative that stems from this simple structure, showing how the significance of the hut resonates widely and how the question of dwelling is central to ascetic imagination. In exploring the conjunctions of architecture and asceticism, he breaks new ground by presenting ascetic practice as fundamentally an architectural project, namely the fabrication of a “last” hut. Through the conception of the last hut, he looks at the ascetic challenge of arriving at the edge of civilization and its echoes in the architectural quest for minimalism. The most vivid example comes from a well-known Buddhist text where the Buddha describes the ultimate ascetic moment, or nirvana, in cataclysmic terms using architectural metaphors: “The roof-rafters will be shattered,” the Buddha declares, and the architect will “no longer build the house again.” As the book compellingly shows, the physiological and spiritual transformation of the body is deeply intertwined with the art of building. The Hermit’s Hut weaves together the fields of architecture, anthropology, religion, and philosophy to offer multidisciplinary and historical insights. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, it will appeal to readers with diverse interests and in a variety of disciplines—whether one is interested in the history of ascetic architecture in India, the concept of “home” in ancient India, or the theme of the body as building.
Book Synopsis Indian Architecture by : Ernest Binfield Havell
Download or read book Indian Architecture written by Ernest Binfield Havell and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Indian Temple Architecture by : Adam Hardy
Download or read book Indian Temple Architecture written by Adam Hardy and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Building Communities in Gujarāt by : Alka Patel
Download or read book Building Communities in Gujarāt written by Alka Patel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyzes the Islamic ritual buildings of western India as innovations of the local architectural tradition. These buildings themselves forged new senses of community, initiating processes of social integration and redefinition among Muslim and non-Muslim groups in the region.
Book Synopsis Early Indian Architecture by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Early Indian Architecture written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1930* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Indian Architectural Theory by : Vibhuti Chakrabarti
Download or read book Indian Architectural Theory written by Vibhuti Chakrabarti and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking study the traditional Indian science of architecture and house-building, Vastu Vidya, is explored in terms of its secular uses, at the levels of both theory and contemporary practice. Vastu Vidya is treated as constituting a coherent and complete architectural programme, still of great relevance today. Chakrabarti draws on an impressive amount of textual material, much of it only available in Sanskrit, and presents several extremely valuable illustrations in support of the theories expounded. Each chapter deals with one architectural aspect, and chapters are divided into three sections. For each aspect, the first section explains the prescriptions of the traditional texts; the second section deals with the rather arbitrary use of that aspect by contemporary Indian architects trained in the western manner but striving to relate to Indian roots; while the last section in each chapter explores the selected use of that particular aspect by contemporary Vastu pundits, with their disregard for architectural idiom
