The History of Architecture in India

The History of Architecture in India
Author: Christopher Tadgell
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1994-07-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780714829609

A monograph drawing together all the strands of India's architectural history.

Introduction to Indian Architecture

Introduction to Indian Architecture
Author: Bindia Thapar
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1462906427

Take a journey through Indian architecture from the dawn of civilization to the present with this colorful, attractive survey. The architecture of India reflects both the cultural diversity of the subcontinent and its rich political and historical inheritance. In this guide, the various strands of this rich architectural history, from the dawn of civilization to modern times, are beautifully presented in word and picture. Readers are taken on a fascinating tour of Indus Valley civilization, early Vedic traditions, Hindu, Jain, Mughal, regional, colonial and post-independence architectural styles. Themes such as water architecture and the architecture of science also figure prominently, giving many westerners their first glimpse of these styles. The informative text, complemented by 400 photographs, watercolors, maps and plans, provide compelling evidence of India's influence on building design throughout history.

An Imperial Vision

An Imperial Vision
Author: Thomas R. Metcalf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This book looks at the relationship between culture and power expressed in architectural forms employed by the British in India. These buildings reflect the choices made by the British in their politics as imperial rulers.

The Temple Architecture of India

The Temple Architecture of India
Author: Adam Hardy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Through lucid visual analysis, accompanied by drawings, this book will allow readers to appreciate the concepts underlying designs that at first sight often seem bewilderingly intricate. The book will be divided into six parts that cover the history and development of the design and architecture of Indian temples.

Rediscovering the Hindu Temple

Rediscovering the Hindu Temple
Author: Vinayak Bharne
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1443867349

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 ritua...

20th Century Indian Architecture

20th Century Indian Architecture
Author: PANKAJ. CHHABRA
Publisher: White Falcon Publishing
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-11-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781636400648

This book is an attempt to evaluate the role of architecture of foreign masters of modern architecture in India in shaping the post independence Indian architecture. It is an effort to understand the reasons of origin of modern architecture, factors responsible for its development and its architectural vocabulary both in world and in India. It further strives to gather the existing studies that have already been done and also intends to contribute to the present body of knowledge by identifying and defining architectural vocabulary of modern architecture of foreign modernist masters' works in India and also statistically analyse its influence on post independence Indian architecture that native architects exhibited in public domain. It is a maiden attempt to analyse the influence statistically at such an exhaustive level, which has never been done before. The book elaborates how the architecture of modern India embodied and reflected the dramatic shifts of Indian society and culture. It throws light on Indian architectural modernity journey that began at the turn of the 20th century, fostered new design practices that directly challenged the social order and values invested in the building traditions of the past. It is an effort to fill in the gaps in the course of development of modernism in India and also an in depth analysis of the way Indian architects were influenced by the works of foreign masters of modern architecture in India. This critical representation of India's post independence modern architecture is an essential reading for all students and scholars of architecture, as well as all those interested in the story of development of modernism in India.

The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India

The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India
Author: Ernest Binfield Havell
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1915
Genre: History
ISBN:

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