The Sulima pagoda : East meets West in the restoration of a Nepalese temple / editors, Erich Theophile and Niels Gutschow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Theophile, Erich.

Gutschow, Niels

Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust.

Series:

Nepal architecture archive series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pagodas--Conservation and restoration--Nepal--Pātan.

Pagodas.

Conservation and restoration.

Nepal.

Nepal--Pātan.

Architecture--Conservation and restoration--Nepal--Kathmandu Valley.

Architecture.

Architecture--Conservation and restoration.

Nepal--Kathmandu Valley.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 138 pages : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Trumbull, CT : Weatherhill, [2003?]

Summary:

Twenty-nine years of international participation in historic preservation in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley has revealed significant differences in restoration approaches to ancient buildings, some controversial. To explore this important subject eight experts on conservation here discuss and present their views, focusing on the Sulima Temple in the Patan Darbar Square, possibly the oldest intact multitier pagoda in the Kathmandu Valley. The tiny, monument-studded Kathmandu Valley serves as an ideal laboratory for such investigations, not only for its historical riches, but also for its numerous collaborations between local and international actors in a Hindu kingdom, a place where the medieval confronts the modern on a daily basis.

Notes:

"This publication grew out of a symposium organized by the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust in November 1999"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (page 133) and index.

ISBN:

083480526X

9745240184

OCLC:

53438261