Eloquent Spaces: Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture
Editat de Shonaleeka Kaulen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mai 2019
Defining it broadly over a range of space uses, the book argues for architecture as a form of cultural production as well as public consumption. Ten chapters by leading archaeologists, architects, historians and philosophers, examining different architectural sites and landscapes, including Sanchi, Moodabidri, Srinagar, Chidambaram, Patan, Konark, Basgo and Puri, demonstrate the need to look beyond the built form to its spirit, beyond aesthetics to cognition, and thereby to integrating architecture with its myriad living contexts. The volume captures some of the semantic diversity inherent in premodern Indian traditions of civic building, both sacred and secular, which were, however, unified in their insistence on enacting meaning and a transcendent validity over and above utility and beauty of form. The book is a quest for a culturally rooted architecture as an alternative to the growing crisis of disembededness that informs modern praxis.
This volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of architecture, ancient Indian history, philosophy, art history and cultural studies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367225964
ISBN-10: 0367225964
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 27 Line drawings, black and white; 34 Halftones, black and white; 61 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367225964
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 27 Line drawings, black and white; 34 Halftones, black and white; 61 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateCuprins
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 Sanchi’s Socio-Ecological Landscape Julia Shaw 4. Spatial and Architectural Constructs of Tantric Buddhist Mandalas: A Cognitive Approach Pranshu Samdarshi 5. The Old Temple of Basgo, Ladakh: A hypothesis on the superimposition of the 'celestial assembly' on sculpture and Sangha Gerald Kuzicz 6. Temple and Territory in the Puri Jagannatha Imaginaire Manu V. Devadevan 7. Stepwells of Western India: Ranki 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 M.N. Ashish Ganju
Notă biografică
Shonaleeka Kaul is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her previous works include The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini (2018), Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader (2014) and Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India (2010).
Descriere
Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It captures some of the semantic diversity inherent in premodern Indian traditions of civic building, which were unified in their insistence on enacting a transcendent validity over and above utility and beauty of form.