Adam Hardy
Publications
Books
Seeing Indian Temple Architecture through the Samaranganasutradhara, (New Delhi: IGNCA, forthcoming 2013)
The Temple Architecture of India (Chichester: Wiley, 2007)
The Temple in South Asia (ed.)(London: British Academy, 2007)
Architectural History and the Studio, edited with Necdet Teymur (London: ?tion Press, 1997)
Indian Temple Architecture: Form and Transformation, Foreword by Kapila Vatsyayan (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 1995)
Refereed journal articles
‘The Expression of Movement in Architecture’, in The Journal of Architecture, 16.4 (2011), pp. 471-497
‘Dravida Temples in the Samaranganasutradhara’, in South Asian Studies 25 (2009), pp. 41-62
‘Sekhari Temples’, in Artibus Asiae 62, No. 1 (2002), pp. 81-137
‘Tradition and Transformation: Continuity and Ingenuity in the Temples of Karnataka’, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 60:2 (2001), pp. 180-199
‘Bira Balabhadrapur: a Brahmin Village in Orissa’, in South Asian Studies 15 (1999), pp. 67-84
‘The Indian Temple: a Dynamic Microcosm’, in Cosmos 8: Sacred Architecture in the Traditions of India, China, Judaism and Islam, ed. by Emily Lyle (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992), pp. 41-57
Edited refereed journal
South Asian Studies Volumes 16-27 (2000-2011)
Chapters in books
‘Indian Temple Typologies’, in Richard Eltin (ed.), The Cambridge World History of Religious Architecture (New York: CUP, forthcoming) [a version also to be publishes in proceedings of ‘Glimpses of Indian History and Art’, Universita La Sapienza, Rome]
‘Architecture’, Critical bibliography in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Hinduism (New York: OUP, 2011)
'Sthapatyaveda (Architecture)' in D Cush, C Robinson & M York (eds.), Encyclopedia of Hinduism (London & New York: Routledge, 2008) pp. 834-836
‘Parts and Wholes: the Story of the Horseshoe Arch’, in Adam Hardy (ed.) The Temple in South Asia (London: British Academy, 2007)
‘Form, Transformation and Meaning in Indian Temple Architecture’, in Giles Tillotson (ed.), Paradigms of Indian Architecture (London: Curzon Press, 1997), pp. 107-135
‘Hybrid Temples in Karnataka’, in First Under Heaven: The Art of Asia (London: Hali Publications, 1997), pp. 26-43
‘Architectural History and Ways of Seeing’ in Architectural History and the Studio, ed. by Adam Hardy and Necdet Teymur, (London: ?tion Press, 1997), pp. 187-207
‘The Indian Subcontinent’, in Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture, Centenary Edition, ed. by Dan Cruickshank, Chapter 26 (Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 1996), pp. 747-786
‘Time in Indian Temple Architecture’, in Concepts of Time, Ancient and Modern, ed. by Kapila Vatsyayan (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts with Sterling Publishers) pp. 354-372
Entries in The Dictionary of Art (1996), ed. Jane Shoaf Turner (London: Grove, 1996): "Temple (freestanding): India", "Architecture: Indian Subcontinent south of the Narmada River, 4th - 6th c AD", "Architecture, Karnataka and Andhra, 6th - 11th c AD", "Architecture, Karnataka and Andhra, 11th - 16th c AD", "Architecture, Maharashtra, 6th - 11th c AD", "Architecture, Maharashtra, 11th - 16th c AD", and several site articles
‘Patterns of Thought and Form in the Kandariya Mahadeva’, in Khajuraho in Perspective, ed. by M.N. Tiwari and K. Giri (Varanasi: Benares Hindu University, 1994)
Invited articles and book reviews
Review of Temple Along the Indus, by Michael Meister, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2011
‘Gods are In the Details: the Ambika Temple at Jagat’, in Made in India (Architectural Design vol. 77, no. 6, Nov./Dec. 2007), pp. 158-9
Review of Traités, temples et images du monde indien: études d’hisoire et d’archaeologie, by Bruno Dagens, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, January 2007
Review of Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture: South India, Dravidadesa, Later Phase, ed. by George Michell, and The Temples in Kumbhariya, by M.A. Dhaky and U.S. Moorty, in Ars Orientalis 33 (2003), pp. 208-211
Review of J.A.B. Hegewald, Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Developments, and Meanings, in Artibus Asiae 58, No. 2 (2003), pp. 257-8
‘Multi-cultural Architecture’ in Global Built Environment Review 3, No. 2 (2003), pp. 13-17
Review of Vibhuti Chakrabarti, Indian Architectural Theory: Contemporary Uses of Vastuvidya, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (7 January 2000); another version in South Asian Studies 16 (2000), p. 155
Review of Cynthia Packert Atherton, The Sculpture of Early Medieval Rajasthan, in Artibus Asiae 58, No. 1/2 (1998), pp. 147-9
‘Religious Architecture and the Creative Process’, in Architecture + Design 14, No. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1997), pp. 63-69
‘Aedicular Murals’, CAA Newsnet (Commonwealth Association of Architects) (2nd Quarter 1996), p. 5
‘The Neasden Temple: Architectural Appraisal’, Church Building37 (Jan./Feb. 1996), pp. 11-13
‘A Tale of Two Temples’ in Architecture + Design 8, No. 4 (July-Aug. 1996), pp. 72-77
‘The Real Thing’, in Hindustan Times (12 September 1996), p. 16
‘Spirit of Suburbia’, Perspectives on Architecture 19, Vol. 2 (November 1995), pp. 42-47
‘Architectural History and Ways of Seeing’ in Architecture + Design10, No. 4 (July-Aug. 1993) pp. 20-25
‘Patterns of Thought and Form in Hindu Temple Architecture’, Architecture + Design 2, No. 6(Sept.-Oct., 1987) pp. 28-39, and 3, No. 1 (Nov.-Dec., 1987), pp. 38-55
Selected conference papers and presentations
‘Indian Temple Typologies’, invited paper at Glimpses of Indian History and Art, conference at Universita La Sapienza, Rome, July 2011.
‘Designing a New Hoysala Temple’, EASAA conference, University of Vienna, July 2010.
‘Designing a New Hoysala Temple’, BASAS conference, University of Warwick, March 2010.
‘Temples, Templates, Texts: Making Monuments in Medieval India’, ACSAA symposium, Granvile, Ohio, Oct. 2009
‘Processes of Temple Production’, The Medieval and its Contexts, seminar of the AHRC ‘The Indian Temple’ project comparing India and Europe, Royal Asiatic Society, London, July 2009
‘Moving Mandalas and Other Emanatory Imagery: From Sacred Space to Screensavers’, ECMSAS conference, Manchester, July 2008
‘The Dance Performed by the Temple: the Dynamics of Hindu Temple Architecture’, Archaeology and Text: The Temple in South Asia, Shivdasani Conference (fully funded), Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, October 2007
‘The Architectural Drawings at Bhojpur’, EASAA conference, Ravenna, July 2007
Workshop presentation at Urban Design Group conference Towards the Multi-cultural City, Birmingham, 2005
Invited speaker at Reinventing the Muslim Vernacular: Art, the Contemporary Context and Urban Landscape, Tate Britain, 2005
‘The Orissan Tradition of Temple Architecture’, keynote talk at conference on ‘The Art and Architecture of Eastern India’, BIT, Ranchi, India, 2005
‘The Swaminarayan Temple, Neasden’, talk broadcast on Nightwaves, BBC Radio 3 (9 December 2004)
‘The Temple Architecture of Orissa: Influences and Assimilations’, Symposium of American Committee for South Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Salem, Mass., 2004
‘Approaching Design through History and History through Design’, Traditional Arts of South Asia: Past Traditions, Contemporary Manifestations, international conference organised by PRASADA at De Montfort University, 2003
Principal speaker at symposium on L’Architecture Sacrée, Ecole d’Architecture de La Villette, Paris, 2001
Invited participant at AHRB-funded conference on Textual Sources in the Study of Chinese and Indian Art, University of Sussex, 2000 and 2001
‘Continuity and Change in Indian Temple Architecture’, conference on Continuity and Change, Edinburgh University, 1997
‘The Symbolism of Indian Temples’, conference on Indian Arts and Spirituality, Dartington Hall, Devon, 1996
‘The Design of Indian Temples’, the annual Lombardo Lecture, School of Architecture, University of Maryland, USA, 1995
Lectures as Visiting Professor at Department of Architecture, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, under the auspices of the Commonwealth Association of Architects, 1995
‘Meaning in Indian Temple Architecture’, Seminar Towards Indian Aesthetics, SOAS, London University, 1993
‘Hybridity in Indian Temples’ Conference on South Asian Art, SOAS, London University, 1992
‘Principles of Composition and Evolution in Indian Temples’, Conference on South Asian Art, SOAS, London University, 1991
‘The Indian Temple and the Cosmos’, conference on Architecture and Traditional Systems of Belief, Edinburgh University, 1991
‘Exotic Importations in Karnataka Temples’, ACSAA symposium, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 1991
‘Time in Indian Temple Architecture’, Kala (conference on concepts of time in Indian culture), Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, 1990
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