TY - BOOK T1 - Mandala – Architecture as a model of the cosmos T2 - Vistāra - The Architecture of India, Catalogue of the Exhibition Y1 - 1986 ED - Carmen Kagal KW - 20th Century Architecture in South Asia KW - Festival of India KW - Indian Architecture, Traditional Architecture of India KW - Vistara (1986 Exhibition) AB -

What is this deep-structure that surfaces time and time again?

For us in India, the answer goes back thousands of years. To the Vedic seers, the manifest world was only a part of their existence; there was also the world of the non-manifest. The forms and events of the perceived world are significant only to the extent that they help us undertand the nonmanifest layers that lie beneath. Magic diagrams, called yantras, explain the nature of the cosmos. Of these, the Vastu- Purusha Mandala forms the basis of architecture. It has the potential for infinite applications and adaptations in the making of houses, palaces, temples and even cities.

JA - Vistāra - The Architecture of India, Catalogue of the Exhibition PB - The Festival of India SP - 32-53 J1 - Vistāra ID - AZ-CF-123818 ER -