Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār: Decoding the Historical Architectural Treatise - Tapa dura

Zutshi, Neena Singh

 
9781032222752: Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār: Decoding the Historical Architectural Treatise

Sinopsis

The Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār compiled around the 11th century by Rājā Bhoj is a significant treatise on architecture from pre-colonial India. The book presents and interpretive architectural analysis of select content of the Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār,explores the design process to generate temples, palaces, and dwelling units, and discusses its correlation with contemporary architectural paradigms. Also, the book looks at contemporary issues of identity and culture, as well as critical issues int he historiography of architecture in the postcolonial Indian subcontinent while unveiling layers of the traditional knowledge systems informing the popular idiom of the Vāstū Shastra. Strongly rooted in archival resources, this book will be indispensable for scholars of history of Indian architecture, heritage studies, South Asian history, conversation, architectural design processes, computational architecture, and postcolonial studies.

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Neena Singh Zutshi is an architect with a keen interest in the intersections of theory, practice, and history.

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