Seeing how ancient temples in Southeast Asia are very much influenced by the architecture of and cultural influences from India, these two lectures by Adam Hardy, and architectural historian from Cardiff University is a good primer. Would anyone be interested if I compiled a page of online lectures related to Southeast Asian Archaeology?
Typology, for the architecture of Indian temples, is not just a matter of classification, but the basis of its origins in early wooden buildings. It is also a creative principle, by which new temple designs are invented by combining existing types. This talk explains the origins and development of the main traditions of temple architecture in the Subcontinent. The lecture was originally intended for a module, which never saw the light of day, on the Government of India’s Epathshala platform.
This talk surveys the diverse traditions of Indian temple architecture and discusses patterns that can be seen in the ways they develop. A pattern of emanation, one form coming out of another, can often observed both in the formal structure of individual temple designs, which express a sequence of emergence and growth, and in the way in which temple forms develop.
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