In the flux created by the Mughal conquest, Hindu landholders of eastern India began to build a spectacularly beautiful new style of brick temple, known as Ratna. This "bejeweled" style combined features of Sultanate mosques and thatched houses, and included second-story rooms c…
In the flux created by the Mughal conquest, Hindu landholders of eastern India began to build a spectacularly beautiful new style of brick temple, known as Ratna. This "bejeweled" style combined features of Sultanate mosques and thatched houses, and included second-story rooms c…
"In the flux created by the Mughal conquest in the seventeenth century, Hindu landholders in eastern India began to build a spectacularly beautiful new style of brick temple, sheathed with terra cotta narrative plaques and in a form unlike that of temples built for a thousand ye…
In the flux created by the Mughal conquest, Hindu landholders of eastern India began to build a spectacularly beautiful new style of brick temple, known as Ratna. This "bejeweled" style combined features of Sultanate mosques and thatched houses, and included second-story rooms c…
"This book presents a thorough and meticulous study of Japanese architecture based on thirty years of field research by the architect and urban planner, Gunter Nitschke. In this major anthropological survey, the imperial, religious and domestic architecture of Japan are traced i…
Emptiness and Christianity -- Emptiness within Christianity -- Return to emptiness -- The School of Things (Mono-ha) and its criticism of modernity -- The emergence of the School of Things and space design -- The School of Things and anti-semiotics -- The School of Tthings and n…
Emptiness and Christianity -- Emptiness within Christianity -- Return to emptiness -- The School of Things (Mono-ha) and its criticism of modernity -- The emergence of the School of Things and space design -- The School of Things and anti-semiotics -- The School of Tthings and n…
Based round an interview with Tadao Ando, this book explores the influence of the Buddhist concept of nothingness on Ando's Christian architecture, and sheds new light on the cultural significance of the buildings of one the world's leading contemporary architects.
