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Eloquent Spaces - Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture (Paperback)
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Eloquent Spaces - Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture (Paperback)
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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.
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