Rediscovering the Hindu Temple - The Sacred Architecture and Urbanism of India (Paperback, Unabridged edition)

This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritualistic settings; and affirming their influential role in the contemporary Indian metropolis.Going beyond stereotypical presentations of Hindu temples dominated by chronological and stylistic themes, this study, addressed to architects, urbanists, and builders, combines historic scholarship, documentation, personal observations and fieldwork to expand the idea of the Hindu temple as a complex and contradictory cultural entity, that is both formal and informal, monumental and modest, historic and modern, and deserving of a far broader and deeper understanding.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	November 2012
Authors:	Vinayak Bharne • Krupali Krusche
Dimensions:	212 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - With dust jacket
Pages:	320
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4438-4137-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Religious buildings
LSN:	1-4438-4137-4
Barcode:	9781443841375

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