Main entry:

Hardy, Adam, 1953- author.

Title & Author:

The temple architecture of India / Adam Hardy.

Publication:

Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2007.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
"Glossary": p. 244.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1 Context and concepts -- Introduction -- Centres of power -- Temple, body and movement -- The emanating universe -- Placing the Gods -- The architect and unfolding traditions -- Part 2 Precursors -- Early Indian architecture -- Later rock-cut architecture -- Part 3 Temple design -- Plans and spaces -- Nagara shrines -- Dravida shrines -- Geometry -- Mouldings -- Pillars -- Ceilings -- Gavakshas -- Part 4 A brief history of Nagara Temples -- Early Nagara Temples -- Latina and related Valabhi Temples -- Shekhari Temples -- Bhumija Temples -- Temples of Eastern India -- Part 5 A brief history of Dravida Temples -- Early Dravida Temples -- The great 8th-century Dravida Temples -- Temples of the Cholas and their contemporaries -- The Karnata Dravida tradition continued -- Part 6 Legacy -- What happened afterwards -- What next?
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

Indian temples represent one of the great architectural traditions of the world. Built for Hindu, Buddhist and Jain worship, they are without parallel in the way that they combine direct sensuous appeal with a highly complex formal structure. This volume explains the principles and processes underlying the designs of these monuments, providing essential historical background and placing the architecture in its cultural and religious context. It traces the origins and formation of the two classical architectural 'languages' of India - the northern Nagara and southern Dravida - and their extraordinarily varied development during the great age of temple construction between the 6th and 13th centuries. The book surveys the continuing vitality of these systems up to the present, and explores the lessons that can be learned from them by architects and artists today. By giving a coherent explanation of how to look at this architecture, as a whole and in detail, the book is able to convey a lucid and comprehensive understanding of the design concepts followed by the temple architects, and of the development of temple forms. The starting point of the analysis is the realisation that the principal elements of temple designs are themselves images of temples. Once this is recognised, the complex architectural compositions become clear. It can then be seen that a perennial concern of this architecture is the expression of movement. Recurrent perceptions of the cosmos and the divine in Indian religion and philosophy are shown to have close parallels in patterns of emanation and centrifugal growth embodied in architectural form. The book is lavishly illustrated with colour photographs and analytical drawings, which are integral to the ideas and arguments put forward in the text. -- From amazon.com

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ISBN:

9780470028278 (hbk.)
0470028270 (hbk.)

Subject:

Temples India.
Temples
Architektur
Tempel
India
Indien

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263829
Call No.: BIB 195126
Status: Available