Rediscovering the Hindu Temple

Bharne, Vinayak [u.a.]:
Rediscovering the Hindu Temple : the Sacred Architecture and Urbanism of India / Vinayak Bharne and Krupali Krusche. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. - xix, 295 S. : Ill., Kt.
ISBN 978-1-4438-4137-5
£ 49,99 / US$ 74,99
DDC: 726.1450954091732

Beschreibung
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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Map of India. VIII
List of Temples. IX
Foreword. XI
Preface and Acknowledgements. XIII
Note on Authorship. XV
Introduction. XVII
1. Hinduism and the Hindu Temple. 1
2. The Plebian Temple: Anointed Trees and Wayside Shrines. 19
3. Codifying the Hindu Temple: The Controversial Role of Treatises. 33
4. Conception of a Hindu Temple: Sthapaka, Sthapati, and Shilpi. 47
5. The Hindu Temple as Language and Style. 61
6. Universal Principles of a Canonized Temple. 79
7. Systems of Measure, Order, and Proportion. 107
8. Beyond the Object: The Temple and its Habitats. 159
9. Ritual: Unifying Temple and Habitat. 195
10. Circuits, Carthographies, and Contradictions: The "Faithscape" of Varanasi. 217
11. Evolving Identities: The Hindu Temple in Prospect. 239
Epilogue. 251
Endnotes. 253
Abbreviations. 263
Appendix. 265
Proportion Studies on Indian Pillars. 269
Glossary. 283
Biblography. 287
Index. 292

Autoren
Vinayak Bharne is an urbanism and planning joint adjunct faculty member at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles; and the director of design at Moule and Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists. He is the editor of The Emerging Asian City - Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms (2012), and the contributing author of several books including Planning Los Angeles (2012) and Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture (2011).
Krupali Krusche is a preservation and architecture faculty member at the University of Notre Dame. As the head of the DHARMA (Digital Historic Architectural Research and Material Analysis) research team, specializing in 3D documentation of World Heritage Sites, she has studied and documented key monuments including the tombs and gardens along the Yamuna River in India, and the Roman Forum in Italy.

Quellen: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; WorldCat; Bookbutler
Bildquelle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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