CAN YOU BUILD A TEMPLE FROM A TEXT?
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18 Oct
2023
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The Indian Temple
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Adam Hardy
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There are two common – and opposite – preconceptions about the Sanskrit treatises on architecture (vastushastras). One is that they lay down strict rules that architects are obliged to follow, the other that they are abstrusely theoretical and not much to do with actual practice. The reality, which lies somewhere in between, is more complicated and much more interesting. To make sense of these texts you have to make drawings from their instructions. In this talk I shall use drawings to explore the relationship between theory (as represented by the texts) and temple design.
This Lecture is part of the Postgraduate THE INDIAN TEMPLE Course
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Duration -
October 18, 2023
Timing: 6:30 - 8:45 pm IST
Registrations Closed
Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy trained as an architect at Cambridge in the 1970s. While practicing and teaching architecture he went to India, got obsessed by temples, and did a PhD part-time on how temples developed in Karnataka between the 7th and 13th centuries. This was later published as Indian Temple Architecture: Form and Transformation (1995). His other publications include Theory and Practice of Temple Architecture in Medieval India: Bhoja’s Samaranganasutradhara and the Bhojpur Line Drawings (2015). Adam now lives in France and is working on a thorough revision of his old (2007) book The Temple Architecture of India, to be published by Dev Publications in 2024. He is Emeritus Professor of Asian Architecture at Cardiff University.