University of Hawaii Press, 2013. — 241 p. — (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia s Architecture). The Hermit’s Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is typically considered...
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, 1989. — 400 p. Assembled here for the first time are all the known original historical sources for the Taj Mahal, which was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, following her death in 1631. The illustrations include color and bandw photographs as well as reconstructed grid plans of the type...
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1993. — 300 p. — ISBN-10: 8120811216; ISBN-13: 978-8120811218. Apart from an insight into Alice Boner's keen observation of Indian Temple Architecture and art the present selection of her diary entries also depict the struggles of Alice Boner, the artist. Most of the diary entries are in German and English and these have been retained for the sake of...
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1993. — 300 p. — ISBN-10: 8120811216; ISBN-13: 978-8120811218. Apart from an insight into Alice Boner's keen observation of Indian Temple Architecture and art the present selection of her diary entries also depict the struggles of Alice Boner, the artist. Most of the diary entries are in German and English and these have been retained for the sake of...
Curzon Press, 1998. — 299 p. In this ground-breaking study the traditional Indian science of architecture and house-building,Vastu Vidya, is explored in terms of its secular uses, at the levels of both theory and contemporary practice. Vastu Vidya is treated as constituting a coherent and complete architectural programme, still of great relevance today. Chakrabarti draws on an...
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 1992. — 179 p. With minute filigree and a staggering vision, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), limned the art and culture of South Asia for a world of readers in the 20th century. His penetrating attention to both the mind and soul of India's great civilization has provided a model for generations of Asian and Western scholars. The...
Asia Publishing House, 1963. — 124 p. This book is specially intended for non-specialists. It is addressed to students and others as an introduction to a subject they have never studied ; and it aims at arousing interest and at inculcating love for the aesthetic enjoyment of Indian architecture—and not, to be sure, to give them more book learning. And thus, while I have...
John Wiley & Sons, 2007. — 264 p. This book encompasses all the major temples on the Indian subcontinent, while also providing an overall understanding of temple architecture by featuring dozens of other beautiful, but lesser known works. Ranging across the core period of temple construction from the 6th to 13th centuries, it also covers the background to this period from the...
John Murray, 1913. — 542 p. The history of architecture is not, as Fergusson thought, the classification of buildings in archaeological water-tight compartments according to arbitrary academic ideas of style, but a history of national life and thought. The first duty of an historian of Indian architecture is to realise for himself the distinctive qualities which constitute its...
Volume I & II. — Algora Publishing, 2008. — 324 p. — ISBN 0-87586-598-4, 978-0-87586-482-8, 978-0-87586-483-9, 978-0-87586-484-6. Hundreds of India's stunning temples are catalogued and copiously illustrated in this two-volume work loaded with color photographs. A brief introduction to the principal religious groups who have made their home in this dynamic region leads into a...
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2005. — 336 p. The Mughals ruled a united north India for over three centuries, but the roots of the glorious monuments they built are found in earlier provincial styles of architecture. In this richly illustrated work, the author presents the first comprehensive study of the architecture of the Sultanate period. During the pre-Mughal centuries...
University of California Press, 1989. — 302 p. "An Imperial Vision" explores the relationship between culture and power as revealed in the architectural forms the British used in their buildings in India between 1830 and 1930. It illustrates how, in the years after the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the British gradually acquired a vision of themselves as something more than...
Niyogi Books, 2014. — 256 p. The early Chalukyas of Badami (c. 6th-8th centuries) are known to have built a large number of rock-cut and structural temples, scattered over the entire Karnataka. In this south Indian state, their distinctive monuments can be seen in Aihole, Badami, Pattadakal, Mahakuta, and a few other places. By the end of the 6th century, they had also...
DuMont Buchverlag, 1991. — 240 S. Als bedeutendster architektonischer Ausdruck einer lebendigen Weltreligion ist der Hindu-Tempel vergleichbar mit der Moschee im islamischen und der Kirche im abendländischen Kulturkreis. 1500 Jahre hinduistischer Tempelbau, vom indischen Subkontinent bis zum indonesischen Archipel, von der Gupta-Zeit (5. Jahrhundert) bis heute, lassen bei aller...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 428 p. L’extraordinaire conservatoire de fortifications que constitue l’Inde centrale enrichit la connaissance de l’architecture militaire de la période moderne. Les spécificités indiennes en matière de défense constituent un apport non négligeable sur le développement original des organes défensifs du Deccan. En utilisant les techniques d’investigation...
Mapin Publishing, 2002. — 175 p. When India emerged from colonial rule in 1947, the division of Punjab left its historic capital, Lahore, in newly created Pakistan. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru insisted that Punjab's new capital, Chandigarh, should be a symbol of the nation’s faith in the future, unfettered by the traditions of the past. Its design and construction...
Reaktion Books, 2002. — 199 p. Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of India’s most famous cities, and is renowned for its palaces and museums, its craft traditions and its distinctive pink shops and houses. A planned city within walls, it was built in pre-modern times according to a distinctive Indian theory of architecture known as vastu vidya. As architecture subsequently developed...
Archaeological Survey of India , 1978. — 294 p. — (Architectural survey of temples 2). The present monograph is the second in the series of the Architectural Survey of Temples published by the Archaeological Survey of India. As no worthwhile survey of the Kerala temples had been conducted, taking the entire Kerala coast as a whole, the resent author was asked by the Director...
Reaktion Books, 2015. — 386 p. A place of astonishing contrasts, India is home to some of the world’s most ancient architectures as well as some of its most modern. It was the focus of some of the most important works created by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, among other lesser-known masters, and it is regarded by many as one of the key sites of mid-twentieth century...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 750 p. Bayana in Rajasthan, and its monuments, challenge the perceived but established view of the development of Muslim architecture and urban form in India. At the end of the twelfth century, early conquerors took the mighty Hindu fort, building the first Muslim city below on virgin ground. They later reconfigured the fort and constructed...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 750 p. Bayana in Rajasthan, and its monuments, challenge the perceived but established view of the development of Muslim architecture and urban form in India. At the end of the twelfth century, early conquerors took the mighty Hindu fort, building the first Muslim city below on virgin ground. They later reconfigured the fort and constructed...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 750 p. Bayana in Rajasthan, and its monuments, challenge the perceived but established view of the development of Muslim architecture and urban form in India. At the end of the twelfth century, early conquerors took the mighty Hindu fort, building the first Muslim city below on virgin ground. They later reconfigured the fort and constructed...
Heinemann, 1965. — 118 p. In this book, a sequel to "The Strongholds of India", Sidney Toy applies his great architectural and historical knowledge of India which is very rich in ancient fortified places. He has examinend personally a number of forts not previously dealt with in "Strongholds of India", as well as dealing in more detail with some of the sites investigated in...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 318 p. The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy. They commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings and coins. Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r. 1490-1636) were particularly significant, being one of the first to emerge from the crumbling edifice of the Bahmani Empire (c. 1347-1527). Yet...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 320 p. The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy. They commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings and coins. Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r. 1490-1636) were particularly significant, being one of the first to emerge from the crumbling edifice of the Bahmani Empire (c. 1347-1527). Yet...
University of California Press, 2018. — 312 р. — ISBN 978-0520296336. The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how the relationship of architectural objects and societies to the built environment changes over time. Studying two surviving medieval monuments in southern Rajasthan—the Ambika Temple in Jagat and the ?kalingji...
Dakshinaa Publishing House, 2001. — 460 p. This is the true vastu science illustrated by a man who comes from a 2000 year old lineage of temple architects. Each chapter covers a different aspect of vastu technology. It is a good introductory book on the inner workings of the vastu purusha mandala and history while also being very technical. I would recommend this to any and...
Periplus, 2012. — 144 p. — ISBN: B008FZWMIK. Take a journey through Indian architecture from the dawn of civilization to the present with this colorful, attractive survey. The architecture of India reflects both the cultural diversity of the subcontinent and its rich political and historical inheritance. In this guide, the various strands of this rich architectural history, from...
Periplus, 2004. — 242 p. The architecture of India reflects both the cultural diversity of the subcontinent and its rich political and historical inheritance. In this guide, the various strands of this rich architectural history, from the dawn of civilization to modern times, are beautifully presented in word and picture. Readers are taken on a fascinating tour of Indus Valley...
Oxford Universiy Press, 1999. — 232 p. North-western India boasts a collection of palaces whose scale and grandeur place them among the world's most impressive. Built between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries by the Rajput Maharajas, with stylistic variations which reflect the Rajas' differing preoccupations with pleasure and war, this book represents the first detailed...
Yale University Press, 1989. — 166 p. Looks at the history of Indian architecture from the days of the British Empire to the present and discusses influential designs.
University of Washington Press, 2011. — 272 p. Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans in 1635, Mocha's trade turned...
British Museum Press, 1997. — 184 p. This book provides the first in-depth examination of temple building in India between AD 600-900, a period of extraordinary creativity and inventiveness. While in many parts of northern India the monuments have been ruined or heavily reconstructed, in the Gwalior region, known in ancient times as Gopaksetra, numerous temples, shrines,...
М.: Ганга, 2023. — 1168 с., илл. — ISBN 978-5-907432-84-0. В книге рассказывается о живописи, скульптуре, танце, вокальной и инструментальной музыке, а также о литературе и словесном творчестве, развивавшихся веками в рамках религиозной культуры. Речь идет о взаимосвязи и взаимовлиянии всех видов искусства, об их истоках и о том, как они оказались в храме. Отдельная глава...
М.: Ганга, 2023. — 1168 с.: ил. В книге рассказывается о живописи, скульптуре, танце, вокальной и инструментальной музыке, а также о литературе и словесном творчестве, развивавшихся веками в рамках религиозной культуры. Речь идет о взаимосвязи и взаимовлиянии всех видов искусства, об их истоках и о том, как они оказались в храме. Отдельная глава посвящена храму как...
М.: Ганга, 2023. — 1168 с.: ил. В книге рассказывается о живописи, скульптуре, танце, вокальной и инструментальной музыке, а также о литературе и словесном творчестве, развивавшихся веками в рамках религиозной культуры. Речь идет о взаимосвязи и взаимовлиянии всех видов искусства, об их истоках и о том, как они оказались в храме. Отдельная глава посвящена храму как...
М.: Ганга, 2023. — 1168 с.: ил. В книге рассказывается о живописи, скульптуре, танце, вокальной и инструментальной музыке, а также о литературе и словесном творчестве, развивавшихся веками в рамках религиозной культуры. Речь идет о взаимосвязи и взаимовлиянии всех видов искусства, об их истоках и о том, как они оказались в храме. Отдельная глава посвящена храму как...
М.: Ганга, 2021. — 640 с. ил. — ISBN 978-5-907243-87-3. Данная книга посвящена южноиндийской храмовой архитектуре. В ней рассказывается о том, как, при каких условиях и по каким принципам происходит рождение храма — как архитектурной идеи и как конкретного строения, рассматриваются вопросы (главным образом, на тамильском материале), касающиеся происхождения и развития храма,...
М.: Ганга, 2021. — 800 с., илл. Книга, представляющая собой вторую часть трилогии «История и культура индийского храма», посвящена жизни индуистского храма. В книге рассказывается о храмовых буднях и праздниках, о храмовой экономике и храмовом персонале, о храмовом управлении и проблемах, с которыми приходится сталкиваться дому Бога в современных условиях, о дарах, которые...
М.: Ганга, 2021. — 800 с., илл. Книга, представляющая собой вторую часть трилогии «История и культура индийского храма», посвящена жизни индуистского храма. В книге рассказывается о храмовых буднях и праздниках, о храмовой экономике и храмовом персонале, о храмовом управлении и проблемах, с которыми приходится сталкиваться дому Бога в современных условиях, о дарах, которые...
М.: Ганга, 2021. — 800 с., илл. Книга, представляющая собой вторую часть трилогии «История и культура индийского храма», посвящена жизни индуистского храма. В книге рассказывается о храмовых буднях и праздниках, о храмовой экономике и храмовом персонале, о храмовом управлении и проблемах, с которыми приходится сталкиваться дому Бога в современных условиях, о дарах, которые...
М.: Ганга, 2021. — 640 с. ил. — ISBN 978-5-907243-87-3. Данная книга посвящена южноиндийской храмовой архитектуре. В ней рассказывается о том, как, при каких условиях и по каким принципам происходит рождение храма — как архитектурной идеи и как конкретного строения, рассматриваются вопросы (главным образом, на тамильском материале), касающиеся происхождения и развития храма,...
М.: Ганга, 2021. — 640 с. ил. — ISBN 978-5-907243-87-3. Данная книга посвящена южноиндийской храмовой архитектуре. В ней рассказывается о том, как, при каких условиях и по каким принципам происходит рождение храма — как архитектурной идеи и как конкретного строения, рассматриваются вопросы (главным образом, на тамильском материале), касающиеся происхождения и развития храма,...
М.: Издательство литературы по строительству, 1964. — 250 с. Настоящая pа6ота представляет исследованиe архитектypы Индии V-VIII вв. Основанием послужилa часть материалов, сo6ранныx вo время пpe6ывания авторa в Индии в 1948-1951 и 1952-1953 гг. B этой книгe автор стремится проследить архитектуру Индии в процессe историческогo развития и социальнo-экономической o6условленности,...
М.: Издательство Всесоюзной Академии архитектуры, 1939. — 102 с. Обстоятельный очерк об истории индийской архитектуры с древнейших времен до XVIII в., ее истоках и особенностях, с современной критикой британского колониального влияния. Книга содержит большое количество фотоиллюстраций на отдельных листах. Памятники последних двух тысячелетий свидетельствуют о высокой...
М.: Издательство Всесоюзной Академии архитектуры, 1939. — 102 с. Обстоятельный очерк об истории индийской архитектуры с древнейших времен до XVIII в., ее истоках и особенностях, с современной критикой британского колониального влияния. Книга содержит большое количество фотоиллюстраций на отдельных листах. Памятники последних двух тысячелетий свидетельствуют о высокой...
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