Main entry:

Crouch, Dora P.

Title & Author:

Traditions in architecture : Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania / Dora P. Crouch, June G. Johnson.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University, 2001.

Description:

xiii, 433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-418) and index.
Preface -- Notes on the Text, Sources, and Appendix -- Introduction -- Part I. Multiplicity and Continuity in Tradition -- 1. Form and Content -- Early Shrines, India -- Caves: Lomas Rishi, Barabar Hills, and Chaitya Hall, Karli -- The Stupa Form: Great Stupa, Sanchi -- Hindu and Jain Shrines, India -- Kandriya Mahadev Temple, Khajuraho -- Dilwara Temples, Rajputana -- Buddhist Shrines, Japan, and Burma -- Horyu-ji Temple, Asuka, Japan -- Ananda Temple, Pagan, Burma -- Suggested Readings -- Transfer of Traditional Architectural Knowledge -- Person-to-Person Transfer -- Community Case Studies -- Professional Knowledge -- Documented Knowledge -- Chinese Construction Manuals -- Suggested Readings -- Part II. Practical Solutions -- 3. Survival: Water, Shelter, and Food -- Water -- Municipal Water in Kathmandu, Nepal -- Irrigation Systems in Peru -- River Training in China -- Shelter -- Movalbe Dwellings -- Stationary Dwellings -- Underground Houses: Available to Everyone.
Food Structures -- Granaries at Mohenjo-Daro -- Japanese Granaries -- Floating Gardens of the Valley of Mexico -- Suggested Readings -- 4. Climate and Ecology -- Cold and Dry -- Houses of Snow and Skin--Inuit Iglus of Northern Canada -- Summer and Winter Houses in Tibet -- Hot and Dry: Solar Management in the Middle East -- Hot and Humid: Big Roof in the New Guinea Rain Forest -- Suggested Readings -- 5. Materials, Methods, and Architectural Form -- Carved-Out Architecture -- Ethiopian Rock-Cut Churches -- Cosmic Mountain at Borobudur, Java -- Assembled Pieces -- Lashed Polynesian Houses -- Interlocking Frameworks in Japan -- One Culture, Two Building Traditions -- Inka Stone Masonry -- Inka Roads and Woven Suspension Bridges -- Suggested Readings -- Part III. Purposes of Traditional Architecture -- 6. Spaces for Daily Life -- Living in Tight Spaces -- Houseboats of China -- Houseboats in Kashmir -- Use of the street and the Roof in Nepal.
Access to Architecture--Social Rewards and the Use of Buildings -- Social Rewards and the Use of Ceremonial Buildings in New Guinea -- Space and Gender in Islamic Society: Kano Palace, Nigeria -- Suggested Readings -- 7. Religious Architecture--A Continuum of Meaning -- Space in the Home -- Japanese Tokonoma -- Mexican Altar of the Dead -- Space on the Street -- Bhaktapur's Street Shrines, Nepal -- Temporary Temples for Processions in India -- Spaces Set Apart -- Special Buildings: North African Mosques -- Ceremonial District: Teotihuacan, Mexico -- Without Buildings: Mount Taylor, New Mexico -- Suggested Readings -- 8. Expression of Power -- Monumentality -- Stone Architecture in the Caroline Islands -- Great Zimbabwe in East Africa -- Empire Building -- The Great Wall of China -- Saqsaywaman Fortress, Peru -- Colonialism and Native Traditions -- Inka and Spanish Changes at Cuzco -- Mughals in India: Red Forts at Agra and Delhi -- Suggested Readings -- Part IV. Planning and Design.
9. Land Use -- Urban Planning -- Formal or Organic: Mohenjo-Daro and Toledo -- Symbolic Creation or Gradual Agglomeration? -- Landscaped Settings -- Form and Meaning: Taj Mahal, Agra, India -- Continuity with Setting: Katsura Palace (Villa), Japan -- Suggested Readings -- 10. Building Types and Uses -- Unique Types -- Ballcourts of Central America -- Islamic Educational Buildings -- Pyramids, Platforms, and Altars -- Pyramids in Mesoamerica: La Venta, Monte Alban, and Chicken-Itza -- Oceania: The Tuamotu Archipelago -- Housing Varieties -- Town Houses, Nepal -- Stilt Houses in Indonesia -- Using Space -- Japanese Floor-Level Living -- Islamic Floor-Level Living -- Suggested Readings -- 11. Organization of Structures -- Hollow Centers: Courtyards -- North Africa and the Middle East -- China -- American Southwest -- Solid Center: Angkor Wat, Cambodia -- Axial Arrangements -- Beijing, China: Forbidden City -- Teotihuacan, Mexico: Street of the Dead -- Suggested Readings.
Part V. Cultural Values -- 12. Vernacular and Monumental Combinations -- Water System: Sri Lanka -- Durbar Square, Patan, Nepal -- Early Historic Period (Licchavi Dynasty 300-879) -- Transitional Period (879-1200) and Malla Period (1200-1482) -- Independent Patan -- The Seventeenth-Century Builder-Kings -- The Eighteenth Century -- Suggested Readings -- 13. Symbolism and Ornamentation -- Symbolic Gardens -- Chinese Gardens -- Calligraphy as Structural Ornamentation: Islamic Architecture -- Other Forms of Structural Ornamentation -- Painted Walls: The Ndebele of South Africa -- Suggested Readings -- 14. Architecture and Social Relations -- Blank Walls for Privacy: Islamic and Chinese Neighborhoods -- Overt Expressions of Status -- Acoma Pueblo: United States -- Great Plains Tipis: United States -- Royal Buildings: Tikal, Guatemala -- Suggested Readings -- 15. Theories of Architecture -- Theoretical Differences -- Being and Nonbeing in Chinese Architecture.
Anthropomorphic Architecture in West Africa -- Writing Architectural History -- Class, Gender, and Ethnicity -- Case Study: Maya Historiography -- Suggested Readings -- 16. Architectural Decision-Making -- Adaptation -- Symbols and Concepts--A Review -- Dome of Stone in Islamic Architecture -- Use and Reuse of Architectural Forms -- Porticoes of the Old and New Worlds--Traditional? -- Stupas Become Pagodas -- Originality: The Turkish Architect Sinan -- Shezade (also Sehzade) Cami (1543-48), Istanbul -- Suleymaniye (1550-57), Istanbul -- Selimiye Cami (1569-75), Edirne -- Suggested Readings -- 17. The Economics of Building -- Durabitlity: Rebuilding at the Ise Shrine, Japan -- Construction Costs -- Economics of Construction -- Modern Research on Costs -- Analogies from Ancient Construction -- Describing Costs of Taj Mahal Construction -- New Analysis of Costs: Energetics in the Yucatan -- Suggested Readings -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania is the first wide-ranging, one-volume study to examine the architectural achievements of diverse cultures outside the Euroamerican tradition. In contrast with traditional chronological surveys of architectural history, this volume is arranged thematically to show the basic commonalties of all human communities."--Publisher's description

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0195088905 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780195088908 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0195088913 (paper ; acid-free paper)
9780195088915 (paper ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Vernacular architecture Research Africa.
Vernacular architecture Asia.
Vernacular architecture Oceania.
Vernacular architecture Research America.
Architecture vernaculaire Recherche Afrique.
Architecture vernaculaire Asie.
Architecture vernaculaire Océanie.
Architecture vernaculaire Recherche Amérique.
Vernacular architecture
Vernacular architecture Research
Architektur
Volksarchitektur
Bauen
Vernacular architecture Africa.
Vernacular architecture America.
Africa
America
Asia
Oceania
Afrika
Amerika
Asien
Ozeanien

Added entries:

Johnson, June Gwendolyn.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213802
Call No.: NA208 .C7 2001
Status: Available