Libro architecture and its models in south-east asia De Dumaray, Jacques ; Dumarcay, Jacques ; Smithies, M

portada architecture and its models in south-east asia

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Editorial

Año

2008

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

132

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.4 x 13.9 x 1.3 cm

Peso

0.28 kg.

ISBN

9745240273

ISBN13

9789745240278

Categorías

Historia de la arquitectura

architecture and its models in south-east asia

Michael Smithies (Autor) · Jacques Dumaray (Autor) · Jacques Dumarcay (Autor) · Orchid Press · Tapa Blanda

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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. Dumarçay 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 new situation or otherwise, which are held within the collective conscience of a given culture. This tendency may further be strengthened in the event that an insecure regime seeks to employ architectural monuments to aggrandize its political position. The inappropriate use of models may also occur when architectural styles are transplanted from one culture into another. A break from the models of the past-and thus true innovation-may develop only when a master builder both has sufficient confidence in his own artistic vision and works within a context that allows him the freedom to express this vision.