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Eloquent Spaces: Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture

Eloquent Spaces: Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture

Kaul, Shonaleeka

Hardcover

General World HistoryArchitecture HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 081538209X
ISBN13: 9780815382096
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: May 8 2019
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It presents a new perspective on the principles and practices of early Indian architecture.

Defining it broadly over a range of space uses, the book argues for architecture as a form of cultural production as well as public consumption. Ten chapters by leading archaeologists, architects, historians and philosophers, examining different architectural sites and landscapes, including Sanchi, Moodabidri, Srinagar, Chidambaram, Patan, Konark, Basgo and Puri, demonstrate the need to look beyond the built form to its spirit, beyond aesthetics to cognition, and thereby to integrating architecture with its myriad living contexts. The volume captures some of the semantic diversity inherent in premodern Indian traditions of civic building, both sacred and secular, which were, however, unified in their insistence on enacting meaning and a transcendent validity over and above utility and beauty of form. The book is a quest for a culturally rooted architecture as an alternative to the growing crisis of disembededness that informs modern praxis.

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