The Samra?g?asutradhar compiled around the 11th century by Raja Bhoj is a significant treatise on architecture from pre-colonial India. The book presents and interpretive architectural analysis of select content of the Samra?g?asutradhar,explores the design process to generate temples, palaces, and dwelling units, and discusses its correlation with contemporary architectural paradigms. Also, the book looks at contemporary issues of identity and culture, as well as critical issues int he historiography of architecture in the postcolonial Indian subcontinent while unveiling layers of the traditional knowledge systems informing the popular idiom of the Vastu Shastra. Strongly rooted in archival resources, this book will be indispensable for scholars of history of Indian architecture, heritage studies, South Asian history, conversation, architectural design processes, computational architecture, and postcolonial studies.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Postgraduate
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
57 s/w Abbildungen, 57 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 31 s/w Tabellen
31 Tables, black and white; 57 Halftones, black and white; 57 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-032-22275-2 (9781032222752)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Neena Singh Zutshi is an architect with a keen interest in the intersections of theory, practice, and history.
1. Introduction 2. Scholarship 3. Samra?g?asutradhar 3.1 Context 3.2 Content 4. Architecture 4.1 Theoretical concerns 4.2 Practical implications 5. Analytical ruminations 6. Associative discussion
