Architecture and Its Models in South-East Asia - Couverture souple

Dumarcay, Jacques

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9745240273 ISBN 13 : 9789745240278

Editeur : Orchid Press Publishing Limited, 2003

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Orchid Press Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9745240273
• ISBN 13: 9789745240278
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible