Temples in classical art and architecture of Eastern India

Padhi, Braja Kishor

ISBN: 9798186791850, 818679185X

Temples in India: origin and developmental stages

Gupta, SP et al.

ISBN: 9788124604953, 8124604959

This volume is a study of the beginning and evolution of temple architecture in India which covers sculptures and carvings as well. With over a hundred plates of temples and carvings on them, including cave facades and pillar depictions, it deals with temples constructed by the different ancient and medieval dynasties in Indian history, particularly the early Western Calukyan and Later Western ...

Temples of Ernakulam district

Jayashanker, S

A monograph on the temples of Ernakulam District of Kerala, published udner Census of Indian series.;This monograph titled Temples of Ernakulam District, which is eighth in the District monograph-series, has a special significance as the district can claim to have the birth-place of the renowned philosopher-saint Sree Sankarachaarya in it. By adopting best elements of Hinduism and Buddhism in h...

The temples of Lhasa: Tibetan Buddhist architecture from the 7th to the 21st centuries

Alexander, Andrea et al.

ISBN: 9781932476200, 1932476202

Temples of South India

Reddy, VV Subba

ISBN: 9788121210225, 8121210224

Temples of Tamil Nadu: Thoothukkudi district

Chandramouli, C

This book is a survey of all temples located within the revenue district of Thoothukkudi in Southern Tamil Nadu. The book lists 1684 temples with maps of their locations with layout sketches of some major temples.

Temples of the Gangas of Karnataka

Sarma, Inguva Karthikeya (1937- )

The temples of western Tibet and their artistic symbolism: the monasteries of Spiti and Kunavar, (Indo-Tibetica, III.1), tr. by Uma Marina Vesci and ed. by Lokesh Chandra

Tucci, Giuseppe (1894-1984)

ISBN: 9788185179223, 8185179220

The ten books on architecture, tr. by Morris Hicky Morgan, foreword by A.K. Jain

Vitruvius

ISBN: 9788174791788, 8174791787

These books demonstrate the role of architecture in development of technology. It covers wide ranging topics-from architectural education, and the development of humanity, to temple design and building typology, construction methods and materials, climatic effects and acoustics, aqueducts and waterworks, astronomy and sun dials, defense apparatus and other machinery.

High performance computer architecture

Prasad, Vishnu

ISBN: 9789393884336, 9393884331

A text book of Vastuvidya

Prabhu, Balagopal TS et al.

A guide for those interested in learn in the scientific and techno logical basis of the traditional architecture science of India. The book carries several graphic illustrations to make the understanding of subject easy.;

Thematic space in Indian architecture

Jain, Kulbhushan

ISBN: 9788187943280, 8187943289

It represents an attempt to understand the spatial order that apparently runs right across the enormous spectrum of building types in India.

A theory of architecture

Salingaros, Nikos A

ISBN: 9789937623124, 993762312X

Through the looking glass: the grade I heritage of Mumbai

Lambah, Abha Narain

ISBN: 9788190112871, 8190112872

On the conservation of architectural heritage of Mumbai (Bombay).

The tirtha at Mukteswar: understanding its architecture, ed. by Ranjana Mital et al

ISBN: 9789383419197, 9383419199

Tirukkalukkunram (Paksitirtham) and its temples: a study of their history, art and architecture

Gopalakrishnan, KV

ISBN: 9788170173922, 8170173922

Tirukkalukkunram the sacred hill of the Eagles also called Pakshitirtham near Mamallapuram in Tamilnadu, is one of the sacred Saivite centres sung by the Tamil saints of the 7th century and later times.

Tombs of Delhi: Sultanate period, foreword by B.R. Mani

Savita Kumari (b.1982)

ISBN: 9788180901133, 8180901130

The book attempts to analyse relationship between tomb architecture and contemporary conditions, through a closer reading of their type, location, epigraphic programme and decoration.

The Torana: in Indian and Southeast Asian architecture

Dhar, Parul Pandya

ISBN: 9788124605349, 8124605343

The present work discusses in depth the subject of Toranas (arched portals or festoons) in the ancient and medieval architecture of South- and South-east Asia, with special emphasis on Indian representations. The text is richly illustrated, bringing together material scattered over several well-known as well as remote sites, museums, and archival collections.

The traditional Kerala manor: architecture of a South Indian Catuhsala house

Schildt, Henri

ISBN: 9788184701890, 8184701896

This work describes the feudal late mediaeval high-caste Kerala house. It lays particular emphasis upon the so-called 'four-house' mansion, called catuhsala in Sanskrit and naluke??u in Malayalam, the vernacular of Kerala. This palatial kind of mansion is regarded as ritually `complete' and, as such, appropriate - according to local Sanskrit treatises on architecture - to the feudal clergy, roy...

Traites, temples et images du monde indien: etudes d'histoire et d'archeologie, articles rassembles par M.-L. Barazer-Billoret et V. Lefevre (in French and English)

Dagens, Bruno

ISBN: 9788184701340, 8184701349

This book contains several papers by Prof. Bruno Dagens who from the end of the fifties has carried out research on temple architecture and iconography in Afghanistan, Southeast Asia and India, and in doing so dealt with several aspects of the history of the Indianised world, its art, its religious practice, its ideology....