History of Architecture I

Relevance of history; the Old, Middle and New Stone Age; the development of shelter — Çatalhöyük and the Indus Valley Civilization (Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro); West Asia — Sumerian and Persian cultures; the Ziggurat at Ur, the Palace of Sargon, and Persepolis.

Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhism; the meeting of Hellenic and Indian ideas; Asoka's pillars and Sarnath; the rock-cut caves at Barabar; the Great Stupa at Sanchi; the chaitya hall and vihara; Karli, Nasik, Rani Gumpha and Udayagiri; Takht-i-Bahi and Gandhara.

Introduction to temple architecture and the temple town; the Dravidian order; rock-cut and structural temples under the Pallavas — the Pancha Rathas and Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram, and the Kailasanatha Temple at Kanchipuram.

Development of the vimana, walled enclosures and gopurams under the Cholas — the Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur and Airavatesvara Temple, Darasuram; the Pandya evolution of the gopuram; ritual complexity — Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai and the Andal Temple, Srivilliputhur.

Vijayanagara — the addition of pillared mandapas, the kalyana mandapa and yali piers (Hampi; Someshwara Temple, Kolar); Nayak — the temple city, concentric prakaras and gopuram rings, and the thousand-pillared mandapa.