Water design: environment and histories, ed. by Jutta Jain-Neubauer

ISBN: 9789383243143, 9383243147

Much can be learnt from India's rich systems of harvesting and distributing rainwater and groundwater through a variety of architecture, some of which are engineering and aesthetic marvels. These structures determined where cities would flourish as well as routes ancient caravans would take. They fed off and into migration networks, creating a holistic interconnection between town, trade and co...

Whitewash, red stone: a history of church architecture in Goa

Gomes, Paulo Varela

ISBN: 9789380403007, 9380403003

This book tells the intriguing story of the evolution of church architecture in Goa from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage

Ghosh, Arun

ISBN: 9788195009855, 8195009859

The oil paintings are complicated, multi-layered structures. They are even more complicated because the materials used in them vary from painting to painting, from one period to subsequent period and also from one school of art to another school of art.

CPKA: five Decades of India's built environment

Kukreja, Arunima et al

ISBN: 9788194969136, 8194969131

Started in 1969 with a vision to redefine architecture and planning in India, CP Kukreja architects (CPKA) is one of the most revered architectural firms in the country. With a portfolio of 1000+ projects, 200+ employees, and having worked with clients from more than thirty countries, the firm has been consistently ranked amongst the top 100 design firms in the world and within top 5 in Asia. T...

Women architects and modernism in India: narratives and contemporary practices; visual and media histories, series editor: Monica Juneja, Univ. of Heldelberg

Desai, Madhavi

ISBN: 9781138281424, 1138281425

Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India.

Thimi, community and structure of a town: Kathmandu Valley

Pant, Mohan

ISBN: 9789937065917, 9937065917

The present work on the town of Thimi of Kathmandu Valley was completed in 2002 as a PhD dissertation in Kyoto University. Kathmandu Valley, which in early history was the proper Nepal, is known to have been inhabited long before the beginning of epigraphic history of the nation. The existence of numerous settlements in prehistoric periods may be gleaned through chronicles, inscriptions of anci...

Woodcut prints of nineteenth century Calcutta

Paul, Ashish (ed.)

ISBN: 9788170460008, 817046000X

This book offers a collection of early Calcutta woodprints - mythological, social scenes, book illustrations and advertising all from between 1816 and the early years of twentieth century, with four essays by scholars and artists on different aspects of this popular urban art tradition.

Wooden architecture Kerala

Desai, Miki

ISBN: 9789385360220, 9385360221

This book explores the socio-cultural and the tectonic aspects of Kerala's wooden architecture, which is deeply rooted in religious and secular customs and shaped by geo-climatic forces. The author's multi-disciplinary approach links the various ethnic groups residing in Kerala, and the mutual adoption and adaptation of construction systems within migrant groups.

Wooden temples of Uttarakhand: a study of art and architecture

Kamboj, Richa

ISBN: 9788173872242, 8173872244

This book is the result of extensive survey and research of the wooden temples of Uttarakhand undertaken for the first time. The book covers various types of wooden temples such as the Canopied Composite-roofed temples, Multi-tiered Pyramidal temples, Tower-type temples, Gable-roofed temples, and Nagar-type temples with woooden components added to their structure.

A work of beauty: the architecture and landscape of Rashtrapati Bhavan, ed. by Narayani Gupta, photography by Ram Rahman

ISBN: 9788123021270, 8123021275

The Rashtrapati Bhavan is part of the narrative of international architecture and town-planning, which entered a new phase at the beginning of the 20th century. It is the last of many 'palaces' built in Delhi over centuries. The chapters have been written by six architects and two historians, keeping the general reader in mind. It is part of a series of volumes documenting different aspects of ...

World art and architecture

Singh, Yajnanendra Pratap

ISBN: 9789388121170, 9388121171

The world's greatest royal places

Morelli, Marcello (ed.)

ISBN: 9788880955078, 8880955071

Wordly gurus and spiritual kings: architecture and asceticism in medieval India

Sears, Tamara I.

ISBN: 9780300198447, 0300198442

This pioneering book is the first full-length study of the matha, or Hindu monastery, which developed in India at the turn of the first millennium. Rendered monumentally in stone, the matha represented more than just an architectural innovation: it signaled both the institutionalization of asceticism into a formalized monastic practice and the emergence of the guru as an influential public figure.

Written in stone: Jesuit buildings in Goa and their artistic and architectural features

Osswald, Cristina

ISBN: 9789380739168, 9380739168

This book offers an insightful look at the artistic features of the buildings created by this nearly five-centuries-old religious society in Goa. It focuses on their architecture, painting, sculpture, woodcarving and more. It also unveils many intricate details about the artistic and cultural influences that shape these structures.

Iconic heritage of Banaras

This book contains the listing of the sites and structures of various typology-ghats, mandirs, ashrams masjids and other religious structures--which were documented in 2009. The restoration work of the Ganga Mahal and Shri Balaji Palace at the Balaji Ghat were initiated in 2012. This project covered over 1300 sites and structures which were listed over a period of ten years. Covering various ty...

Zainul Abedin: great masters of Bangladesh, ed. by Rosa Maria Falvo, with essays by Abul Monsur et al

ISBN: 9788857210773, 8857210774

Zainul Abedin's devotion to Bangladeshi folk art stemmed from his profound belief that one needs to know one's own indigenous cultural heritage in order to truly appreciate art in any form. This affirmation led him to set up the Folk Arts Museum in Sonargaon, about twenty-nine kilometers outside of Dhaka city. In 1943 a great famine struck Bengal. Abedin was so move by the suffering he saw that...

Erotic carvings of the Kathmandu valley found on struts of Newar temples, illustrated by Roshan Dangol et al

ISBN: 9789937055499, 9937055490

This book intends to create an admiration also for Erotic Carvings as a beautiful art and proud part of Nepal's heritage. It might not be the first of its kind, but it is definitely the first describing and representing erotic depictions in an open, frank way.

Historical fine arts and Asian culture: an art craft and skill designing with science and technology, foreword by Ramesh Pokhriyal `Nishank'

ISBN: 9789351711667, 9351711668

Indian art

Mrutyunjaya Rao, Kota

ISBN: 9789351711841, 9351711846

The book `Indian Art' has 10 chapters with artistic point of view rather than the historical and archaeological approaches. Each chapter unfolds a kind of new vision on Indian art and understanding on art forms.

Splendid artworks in historic Sikh shrines of India and Pakistan: conservation perspective

Singh, Balvinder

ISBN: 9789383419876, 9383419873

The book represents a passionate attempt aimed to bring into cognizance the condition of splendid artworks in spiritual, historic Sikh shrines (Gurdwaras) of India and Pakistan.