Architecture and Its Models in Southeast Asia

by Jacques Dumarçay

This thought provoking study of the development of architecture, and the impact of architectural models on this evolution, in southeast Asia, draws for its early examples primarily from surviving Hindu-Buddhist monuments in Cambodia and Java. Dumar ay argues that, despite the fact that individual physical locations may merit innovation, new construction nevertheless tends to be constrained by pre-existing architectural models, appropriate to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9745240273
• ISBN13: 9789745240278
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Orchid Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.8"