Digital Archetypes: Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia

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Sambit Datta (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) David Beynon (Deakin University, Australia)

Digital Archetypes

Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia

Sambit Datta (Curtin University of Technology, Australia), David Beynon (Deakin University, Australia), Professor Marilyn Deegan , Professor Lorna Hughes

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Routledge
11 June 2014

Religious buildings; History of architecture

Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities

This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture.

The authors examine the archetypes of Early Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from their origins in north western India to their subsequent spread and adaptation eastwards into Southeast Asia.

While the epic monuments of Asia are well known, much less is known about the connections between their building traditions, especially the common themes and mutual influences in the early architecture of Java, Cambodia and Champa.

While others have made significant historiographic connections between these temple building traditions, this book unravels, for the first time, the specifically compositional and architectural linkages along the trading routes of South and Southeast Asia.

Through digital reconstruction and recovery of three dimensional temple forms, the authors have developed a digital dataset of early Indian antecedents, tested new technologies for the acquisition of built heritage and developed new methods for comparative analysis of built form geometry. Overall the book presents a novel approach to the study of heritage and representation within the framework of emerging digital techniques and methods.

By: Sambit Datta (Curtin University of Technology Australia), David Beynon (Deakin University, Australia)
Series edited by: Professor Marilyn Deegan, Professor Lorna Hughes, Mr. Harold Short
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9781409470649
ISBN 10: 1409470644
Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 11 June 2014
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 Interpreting Temples; Chapter 2 The Digital Construction of Temple Archetypes; Chapter 3 Spread and Adaptation; Chapter 4 Spread and Adaptation; Chapter 5 Spread and Adaptation; Chapter 6 Spread and Adaptation; Chapter 7 Connections;

Sambit Datta is Professor of Architecture, School of Built Environment, Curtin University, Australia. David Beynon is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University, Australia.

Reviews for Digital Archetypes: Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia

'Datta and Beynon demonstrate the substantial benefits that digital methods can bring to the analysis of architectural and cultural history. Asian scholars will particularly welcome their new insights into old questions about the historical connections between the various South and Southeast Asian polities and the processes of Indianisation that are thought to have shaped Southeast Asian cultures.' William Logan, Deakin University, Australia'Digital Archetypes redefines the possible of what we can know about these monuments.'Michael W. Meister, University of Pennsylvania, USA