Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār: Decoding the Historical Architectural Treatise - Rilegato

Zutshi, Neena Singh

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ISBN 10: 1032222751 ISBN 13: 9781032222752

Casa editrice: Routledge India, 2025

Riassunto

The Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār compiled around the 11th century by Rājā Bhoj is a significant treatise on architecture from pre-colonial India. The book presents and interpretive architectural analysis of select content of the Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār,explores the design process to generate temples, palaces, and dwelling units, and discusses its correlation with contemporary architectural paradigms. Also, the book looks at contemporary issues of identity and culture, as well as critical issues int he historiography of architecture in the postcolonial Indian subcontinent while unveiling layers of the traditional knowledge systems informing the popular idiom of the Vāstū Shastra. Strongly rooted in archival resources, this book will be indispensable for scholars of history of Indian architecture, heritage studies, South Asian history, conversation, architectural design processes, computational architecture, and postcolonial studies.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Neena Singh Zutshi is an architect with a keen interest in the intersections of theory, practice, and history.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1032222751
• ISBN 13: 9781032222752
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania