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100			_aKaul, Shonaleeka Ed. _989138
245	0	0	_aEloquent spaces : meaning and community in early Indian architecture (only online access)
264		1	_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2019.
300			_a1 online resource ; 216p.
500			_aContents: Introduction : towards a semantics of architecture / Shonaleeka Kaul -- Form, space, and consciousness : architectural principles in the vastushastras / Bettina Sharada Bäumer -- Breathing life into monuments of death : the stupa and the Buddha body in the socio-ecological landscape of Sanchi / Julia Shaw -- Spatial and architectural constructs of tantric Buddhist mandalas : a cognitive approach / Pranshu Samdarshi -- The old temple of Basgo : a hypothesis on the superimposition of 'celestial assembly' on sculpture and sangha / Gerald Kozicz -- Temple and territory in the Puri Jagannath imaginaire -- Manu Devadevan -- Stepwells of western India : Rani ki vav at Patan / Rabindra Vasavada -- Outer places, inner spaces : constructing the gaze in Chola Chidambaram / Aleksandra Wenta -- Interpreting public space in the Jaina basadis of Moodabidri / Pratyush Shankar -- On the water's edge : tracing urban form in old Srinagar / Munishwar Nath Ashish Ganju.
520			_aSummary: Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It presents a new perspective on the principles and practices of early Indian architecture. 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.
650		0	_aArchitecture _zIndia. _988294
650		0	_aArchitecture and society _zIndia. _988295
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650		7	_aHISTORY / Social History _2bisacsh _988301
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856	4	0	_3E-book from Taylor & Francis _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367225988 _yClick here to access the book
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