Title & Author:

Eloquent spaces : meaning and community in early Indian architecture / edited by Shonaleeka Kaul.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xv, 199 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction : towards a semantics of architecture / Shonaleeka Kaul -- 2. Form, space, and consciousness : architectural principles in the vastushastras / Bettina Sharada Bäumer -- 3. Breathing life into monuments of death : the stupa and the Buddha body in the socio-ecological landscape of Sanchi / Julia Shaw -- 4. Spatial and architectural constructs of tantric Buddhist mandalas : a cognitive approach / Pranshu Samdarshi -- 5. The old temple of Basgo : a hypothesis on the superimposition of 'celestial assembly' on sculpture and sangha / Gerald Kozicz -- 5. Temple and territory in the Puri Jagannath imaginaire / Manu Devadevan -- 7. Stepwells of western India : Rani ki vav at Patan / Rabindra Vasavada -- 8. Outer places, inner spaces : constructing the gaze in Chola Chidambaram / Aleksandra Wenta -- 9. Interpreting public space in the Jaina basadis of Moodabidri / Pratyush Shankar -- 10. On the water's edge : tracing urban form in old Srinagar / Munishwar Nath Ashish Ganju.

ISBN:

9780815382096 hardcover alkaline paper
081538209X hardcover alkaline paper
9780367225964 paperback alkaline paper
0367225964 paperback alkaline paper
electronic publication
9780415001311
electronic book
9780415000376
Mobipocket electronic book
9780415000840
ebook
9781000007206

Subject:

Architecture India.
Architecture and society India.
Architecture Inde.
Architecture et société Inde.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
India.

Added entries:

Kaul, Shonaleeka, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305747
Call No.: BIB 251603
Status: Available