Civil Engineering and Architecture Vol. 10(2), pp. 513 - 530
DOI: 10.13189/cea.2022.100211
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Investigating Architectural Patterns of Indian Traditional Hindu Temples through Visual Analysis Framework

Aditya Kumar Singh ^1,*, Vinay Mohan Das ¹, Yogesh Kumar Garg ¹, Mohammad Arif Kamal ^2
1 Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
² Architecture Section, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, India

ABSTRACT

The Architectural image of Indian traditional temples has been fascinating the scholars since their discovery, maybe due to their mystic sensorial experience. Historians, archaeologists, artists, anthropologists, astrologists, numerologists, and exclusively architects have been exploring the mysticism either linking myths or textural tenets. The sea change has been witnessed in the architectural language of temples since the beginning of their existence to date. Since the late medieval period, this language has been deciphered in majorly Sanskrit and manifested with due authenticity. It is the colonial period wherein the various scholarships have initiated attempts to decode the mysticism of architectural language through translations & visual transformations. Through a close review of the past researches, the paper has discerned the various constructs and approaches through which scholars have conceptualized and interpreted the architecture of Indian traditional temples. It has focused on contemporary visual frameworks for analysis of Indian traditional temples employed by scholars and the outcomes of the same. The comparatives between the building & text put forth by scholarships were often found constructed on shaky grounds while the visual interpretations had revealed either faltered dimensional transformations or implausible geometrical propensities.

KEYWORDS
Treatise, Visual Analysis, Architectural Language, Pattern, Aesthetics, Geometry, Hindu Temples, India

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Aditya Kumar Singh , Vinay Mohan Das , Yogesh Kumar Garg , Mohammad Arif Kamal , "Investigating Architectural Patterns of Indian Traditional Hindu Temples through Visual Analysis Framework," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 513 - 530, 2022. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2022.100211.

(b). APA Format:
Aditya Kumar Singh , Vinay Mohan Das , Yogesh Kumar Garg , Mohammad Arif Kamal (2022). Investigating Architectural Patterns of Indian Traditional Hindu Temples through Visual Analysis Framework. Civil Engineering and Architecture, 10(2), 513 - 530. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2022.100211.