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25 Nov
29 Nov
2019
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Indian Aesthetics
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Adam Hardy
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The traditional Indian texts on architecture, vastushastras, are often characterised as rulebooks to be followed rigidly, or conversely as abstruse treatises divorced from practice. Neither proves to be the case if, knowing the relevant architectural languages, we draw the temple designs as the texts invite us to do. This seminar series will explore the main traditions of Indian temple architecture and their respective texts, presenting worked examples from their instructions. It will show how practice and theory are intertwined, and that both are creative and dynamic.
Day 1
- Indian temples and their typological origins
- Latina temples: measure, proportion and the myth of the vastumandala
Day 2
- The medieval blossoming of the Nagara tradition
- Evolving temples in evolving texts
Day 3
- Dravida temples: the language of aedicules and the palette of mouldings
- South Indian texts: Manasara, Mayamata and others
Day 4
- Varata temples: the lost tradition in-between
- Kashmiri temples and the Vishnudhamottarapurana
Day 5
- Bhojpur, the Bhumija and the Samaranganasutradhara
- Bhumija temples and the principle of parivartana
Duration -
November 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 2019
Timing: 6:30 - 8:30
Fees
Rs. 4,000 (For a 50% student discount, write to info@jp-india.org)
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.