This article is about the British architect and historian. For the South African footballer, see Adam Hardy (footballer). For the novelist, see Kenneth Bulmer.
His research is largely in the history of architecture in South Asia,particularly Hindu temple architecture,as well as that of Indian Buddhist and Jain temples. Going against a prevailing tendency to focus narrowly,his work has embraced most of the subcontinent,and a very long time span,while at the same time involving detailed formal analysis. He has tried to bring to light a meaningful way of looking at what at first sight seem bewilderingly complex structures. The work has revealed striking structural homologies between architecture and other branches of culture,and shown how,within a number of regional traditions,forms evolve in a characteristic way,notwithstanding conspicuous artistic inventiveness. Drawings have played an important role in his research,not only for explanation but also as a means of analysis.
Principal Investigator,The Indian Temple:Production,Place,Patronage (AHRC project)
Editorial Board member for Context,Abacus,Pakistan Heritage
Advisory Editor to OUP Online Bibliographies,Hinduism module
Council member,British Association for South Asian Studies [5]
Executive Committee member,European Association of South Asian Art and Archaeology [6]
Member of AHRC Peer Review Academy
Books
Theory and Practice of Temple Architecture in Medieval India:Bhoja's Samaranganasutradhara and The Bhojpur Line Drawings (New Delhi:Dev Publishers &Distributors and Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts,2015)
The Temple Architecture of India (Chichester:Wiley,2007) [7]
The Temple in South Asia (ed.)(London:British Academy,2007)
Architectural History and the Studio,edited with Necdet Teymur (London:Question Press,1997)
Indian Temple Architecture:Form and Transformation:the Karṇāṭa Drāviḍa Tradition,7th to 13th Centuries,1995,Abhinav Publications,New Delhi, ISBN8170173124, 9788170173120, google books
References
1 2 Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe: School List for 1970
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