TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper, Ilay
AU  - Dawson, Barry
TI  - Traditional buildings of India
SN  - 9780500341612
U1  - 720.954 DDC23
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - ARCHITECTURE BY REGION (AR-REG)
KW  - INDIA ARCHITECTURE
N2  - This is a survey of the diverse vernacular buildings of each region of India in their historical and traditional contexts. Whether creating family houses or village temples, grain stores or fine mansions, the Indian builder works according to ancient and sometimes religious practice, with whatever materials are to hand. The country's extraordinary range of buildings - mud-plastered, reed-thatched, timber-framed - is as varied as India's geography itself, from the cold dry Himalayas in the North and barren deserts in the West, to the sweltering bamboo groves and rice fields of the South
ER  -