Eloquent spaces

• Titel: Eloquent spaces
• Titelzusatz: meaning and community in early Indian architecture
• Mitwirkende: Kaul, Shonaleeka [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Shonaleeka Kaul
• Verlagsort: London ; New York
• Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2019
• Umfang: xv, 199 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-8209-6
• ISBN: 978-0-367-22596-4
• Schlagwörter: (g)Indien / (s)Architektur / (z)Geschichte
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Eloquent spaces. - London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. - 1 online resource (xv, 199 pages)
• RVK-Notation: EU 1040
• K10plus-PPN: 1664214356

Abstract

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.