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This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of
early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in
digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian
architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early
Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from their
origins in north western India to their subsequent spread and
adaptation eastwards into Southeast Asia. While the epic monuments
of Asia are well known, much less is known about the connections
between their building traditions, especially the common themes and
mutual influences in the early architecture of Java, Cambodia and
Champa. While others have made significant historiographic
connections between these temple building traditions, this book
unravels, for the first time, the specifically compositional and
architectural linkages along the trading routes of South and
Southeast Asia. Through digital reconstruction and recovery of
three dimensional temple forms, the authors have developed a
digital dataset of early Indian antecedents, tested new
technologies for the acquisition of built heritage and developed
new methods for comparative analysis of built form geometry.
Overall the book presents a novel approach to the study of heritage
and representation within the framework of emerging digital
techniques and methods.
This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of
early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in
digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian
architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early
Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from their
origins in north western India to their subsequent spread and
adaptation eastwards into Southeast Asia. While the epic monuments
of Asia are well known, much less is known about the connections
between their building traditions, especially the common themes and
mutual influences in the early architecture of Java, Cambodia and
Champa. While others have made significant historiographic
connections between these temple building traditions, this book
unravels, for the first time, the specifically compositional and
architectural linkages along the trading routes of South and
Southeast Asia. Through digital reconstruction and recovery of
three dimensional temple forms, the authors have developed a
digital dataset of early Indian antecedents, tested new
technologies for the acquisition of built heritage and developed
new methods for comparative analysis of built form geometry.
Overall the book presents a novel approach to the study of heritage
and representation within the framework of emerging digital
techniques and methods.
Despite their ubiquity and cultural prominence, the academic study
of arts festivals has long been neglected. The burgeoning festivals
industry is, however, firmly embedded in both the arts funding and
weekly calendar of European cities, and there is no doubt that
festivals are fast becoming a defining feature of urban life in the
twenty-first century. An assessment of their nature and impact is
more pressing than ever before. The contributors to this volume
explore the modern urban festival and the difference it makes to
the experience and management of diversity in the city. Their
research reveals an unsettling coupling of the celebration of local
diversity with institutional amnesia, in which the memory of a
festival hardly ever outlasts its funding. This book documents a
key phenomenon of our time, the supplanting of community-based
remembering with the repetitive structures of events whose historic
and interpretative depth is lost amid a spiraling velocity of
'festivalization'.
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