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| Preface | |
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| Notes on the Text, Sources, and Appendix | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Multiplicity and Continuity in Tradition | |
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| Form and Content | |
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| Early Shrines, India | |
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| Caves: Lomas Rishi, Barabar Hills, and Chaitya Hall, Karli | |
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| The Stupa Form: Great Stupa, Sanchi | |
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| Hindu and Jain Shrines, India | |
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| Kandriya Mahadev Temple, Khajuraho | |
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| Dilwara Temples, Rajputana | |
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| Buddhist Shrines, Japan, and Burma | |
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| Horyu-ji Temple, Asuka, Japan | |
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| Ananda Temple, Pagan, Burma | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Transfer of Traditional Architectural Knowledge | |
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| Person-to-Person Transfer | |
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| Community Case Studies | |
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| Professional Knowledge | |
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| Documented Knowledge | |
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| Chinese Construction Manuals | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Practical Solutions | |
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| Survival: Water, Shelter, and Food | |
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| Water | |
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| Municipal Water in Kathmandu, Nepal | |
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| Irrigation Systems in Peru | |
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| River Training in China | |
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| Shelter | |
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| Movalbe Dwellings | |
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| Stationary Dwellings | |
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| Underground Houses: Available to Everyone | |
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| Food Structures | |
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| Granaries at Mohenjo-Daro | |
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| Japanese Granaries | |
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| Floating Gardens of the Valley of Mexico | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Climate and Ecology | |
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| Cold and Dry | |
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| Houses of Snow and Skin--Inuit Iglus of Northern Canada | |
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| Summer and Winter Houses in Tibet | |
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| Hot and Dry: Solar Management in the Middle East | |
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| Hot and Humid: Big Roof in the New Guinea Rain Forest | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Materials, Methods, and Architectural Form | |
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| Carved-Out Architecture | |
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| Ethiopian Rock-Cut Churches | |
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| Cosmic Mountain at Borobudur, Java | |
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| Assembled Pieces | |
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| Lashed Polynesian Houses | |
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| Interlocking Frameworks in Japan | |
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| One Culture, Two Building Traditions | |
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| Inka Stone Masonry | |
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| Inka Roads and Woven Suspension Bridges | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Purposes of Traditional Architecture | |
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| Spaces for Daily Life | |
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| Living in Tight Spaces | |
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| Houseboats of China | |
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| Houseboats in Kashmir | |
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| Use of the street and the Roof in Nepal | |
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| Access to Architecture--Social Rewards and the Use of Buildings | |
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| Social Rewards and the Use of Ceremonial Buildings in New Guinea | |
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| Space and Gender in Islamic Society: Kano Palace, Nigeria | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Religious Architecture--A Continuum of Meaning | |
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| Space in the Home | |
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| Japanese Tokonoma | |
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| Mexican Altar of the Dead | |
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| Space on the Street | |
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| Bhaktapur's Street Shrines, Nepal | |
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| Temporary Temples for Processions in India | |
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| Spaces Set Apart | |
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| Special Buildings: North African Mosques | |
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| Ceremonial District: Teotihuacan, Mexico | |
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| Without Buildings: Mount Taylor, New Mexico | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Expression of Power | |
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| Monumentality | |
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| Stone Architecture in the Caroline Islands | |
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| Great Zimbabwe in East Africa | |
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| Empire Building | |
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| The Great Wall of China | |
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| Saqsaywaman Fortress, Peru | |
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| Colonialism and Native Traditions | |
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| Inka and Spanish Changes at Cuzco | |
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| Mughals in India: Red Forts at Agra and Delhi | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Planning and Design | |
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| Land Use | |
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| Urban Planning | |
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| Formal or Organic: Mohenjo-Daro and Toledo | |
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| Symbolic Creation or Gradual Agglomeration? | |
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| Landscaped Settings | |
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| Form and Meaning: Taj Mahal, Agra, India | |
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