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Bangkok: White Lotus, 2000. This is the first English translation of Karl Döhring's seminal three-volume photographic study Buddhistische Tempelanlagen in Siam, published in German in 1920. This in-depth architectonic and socio-cultural analysis of temple building complexes is accompanied by 180 pages of technically perfect photographs and 116 floor plans and refined line drawings. Karl Döhring, an architect who lived and worked in Siam during the reigns of King Chulalongkorn and King Vajiravudh, presented part of this work toward his doctoral degree. As a practicing architect of larger constructions, many of which were realized in Siam, Döhring was deeply interested in the technical aspects of Thai temples and in the use of decorative elements worked out to perfection to create both harmony and eye-catching contrasts. The book presents an architectonic analysis, discusses the historico-cultural and religious meanings of the various edifices composing a Thai temple complex, and…
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Buddhist Temples of Thailand: An Architectonic Introduction Hardcover - 2000
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- Title Buddhist Temples of Thailand: An Architectonic Introduction
- Author Karl Dohring
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 353
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher White Lotus Company, Ltd. (Thailand), Bangkok
- Date 2000-10
- ISBN 9789747534405 / 9747534401
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00367587
- Dewey Decimal Code 726.143
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