Course Description
Intention:This seminar will both instruct you in the remarkable variety
of India's architectural accomplishments and encourage you to discuss the
broader issue of how architecture can be designed to express meaning. I
will ask students to divide into groups to work together on one area of
India's architecture. The categories I propose are:
- Early Indian architecture
- South Indian architecture
- North Indian architecture
- Early Islamic architecture in India
I will ask you to work collectively, but on different aspects or examples
of the general area, reporting in class on the literature, issues, ideas,
and substance appropriate to each.