AR6202 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE - ANNA UNIV B.ARCH SECOND SEMESTER SYLLABUS

ANNA UNIVERSITY B.ARCH SECOND SEMESTER SYLLABUS REGULATION 2013 AR6202 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE OBJECTIVES:   To understand Indian architecture as evolving within specific cultural contexts  including aspects of society, religion, politics and climate   To gain knowledge of the development of architectural form with reference to  technology, style and character in the Indus valley Civilization, Vedic period and  manifestation of Buddhist and Hindu architecture in various parts of the country.  UNIT I ANCIENT INDIA Indus Valley Civilization: culture and pattern of settlement.- Aryan civilization – theories and  debates of origin- origins of early Hinduism - Vedic culture - Vedic village and rudimentary  forms of bamboo and wooden construction - origins of Buddhism and Jainism.  UNIT II BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE Evolution of Buddhism, Buddhist thought, art and culture - Hinayana and Mahayana  Buddhism - interaction of Hellenic & Indian Ideas in Northern India - evolution of building  typologies- the stupa, vihara and the chaitya hall - symbolism of the stupa - architectural  production during Ashoka's rule Ashokan Pillar, Sarnath - rock cut caves at Barabar - Sanchi  Stupa- rock cut architecture in Ajanta and Ellora - Karli - viharas at Nasik - Rani gumpha,  Udaigiri - Takti Bahai, Gandhara. UNIT III EVOLUTION OF HINDU TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE Hindu forms of worship – evolution of temple form - meaning, symbolism, ritual and social  importance of temple - categories of temple - elements of temple architecture - early shrines  of the Gupta and Chalukyan periods  Tigawa temple - Ladh Khan and Durga temple, Aihole - Papanatha, Virupaksha temples,  Pattadakal - Kailasanatha temple, Ellora.  UNIT IV TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE - SOUTHERN INDIA Brief history of South India - relation between Bhakti period and temple architecture - of  temple towns - Dravidian Order - evolution and form of gopuram  Rock cut productions under Pallavas: Shore temple, Mahabalipuram and Kailasanatha  temple, Kanchipuram - Chola Architecture: Nartamalai, Brihadeeswara, Gangaikonda  Cholapuram and Darasuram temples -– temple gateways of Madurai and Chidambaram -  temple towns: Madurai, Srirangam and Kanchipuram Hoysala architecture: Belur and  Halebid.  UNIT V TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE -NORTHERN INDIA Temple architecture of Gujarat, Orissa, Madhyapradesh and Rajasthan - their salient  features Lingaraja Temple, Bhuvaneswar - Sun temple, Konarak. - Somnatha temple,  Gujarat, Surya kund, Modhera Khajuraho, Madhyapradesh - Dilwara temple, Mt. Abu  TOTAL: 45 PERIODS  REQUIRED READINGS:  1. Percy Brown, Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Period), Taraporevala and Sons,  Bombay, 1983.  2. Satish Grover, The Architecture of India (Buddhist and Hindu Period), Vikas Publishing  Housing Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2003.  3. Christoper Tadgell, The History of Architecture in India from the Dawn of civilization to the  End of the Raj, Longmon Group U.K.Ltd., London, 1990.  REFERENCES:  1. George Michell, The Hindu Temple, BI Pub., Bombay, 1977.  2. Stella Kramrisch The Hindu Temple, Motilal Banarsidass, 1976.  3. Parameswaranpillai V.R., Temple culture of south India, Inter India Publications,  4. George Michell Ed, Temple Towns of Tamil Nadu, Marg Pubs, 1995.  5. Raphael D., Temples of Tamil Nadu; Works of Art, Fast Print Service Pvt Ltd., 1996.

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