Angkor Wat
http://www.waseda.ac.jp/projects/AsianArch/
Investigations of The Angkor Architecture
Cambodia - 1548
Angkor Wat
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings/
Angkor_Wat.html
Hindu temple
Cambodia - 1548
Buddhist and Hindu Temple Architecture
in South As
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Hindu and Buddhist architecture in
India, Indonesia, and CambodiaCollege of Environmental Design Department of Architecture,
UC Berkeley Architecture Slide Library
India - 568
Buddhist Art of Southeast Asia
http://www.multimedia.calpoly.edu/libarts/jwetzel/
Angkor Vat (#313) - 12th century
The Bayon, Angkor Thom (#318) - 12th - 13th century
Towers of the Bayon, Angkor Thom (#320)
Bridge showing the churning of the sea of milk,
Angkor Thom (#319)
Cambodia - 572
Chaitya-Hall at Karli
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings/
Chaitya-Hall_at_Karli.html
underground temple, carved from hillside
India - 1551
Fatehpur Sikri
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings/
Fatehpur_Sikri.html
The instant city of Emperor Akbar. Hindu-style post and beams roofed with Muslim-style
vaults and domes
India -
1552
Fatehpur Sikri & Agra
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Agra! The city made famous by the magnificient Taj Mahal--Agra is the seventh
wonder of the world! A small city but an intrinsic part of the Indian tourist triangle of
Delhi, Agra and Jaipur.
India -
1142
Great Stupa at Sanchi
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings/
Great_Stupa_at_Sanchi.html
Buddhist monument
India -
1553
Kambodscha
http://www.archinform.de/ort/3001.htm
Angkor Wat, 1113 - 1150
Cambodia - 569
Muang Boran ( Ancient City )
Thailand Art & Culture
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This is a city of traditional Thai art and culture,
gradually and painstakingly created over the last decade as a bulwark against the rising
tides of socio-cultural change
in present-day Thai society . In all its variety and spectacular architecture that blend
in harmoniously with the natural environment, many visitors may find the atmosphere at
Muang Boran beyond the realms of his wildest imagination.
Thailand - 563
Philippine Churches
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~gaspar/churches.html
The flowering of colonial church architecture was a
significant event in the history of the Philippines. Geographic location, climate,
materials, and the spontaneous and improvisational attitude of the Filipinos created a
kind of architecture that was unique from Western architectural idioms.
Philippines - 1564
Shanghai's Historical Western
Architecture
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~leep/project.html
A photographic survey of these historically and
architecturally important buildings.
China - 386
Southeast Asian Monuments:
a selection of 100 slid
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/pun/ubhtm/mjk/
watkukut.htm
Wat Kukut was built in 1218 towards the
end of Mon culture in Thailand. It is one of the few surviving examples of Mon
architecture in Thailand. It has the form of a stepped pyramid rising in five tiers (see
picture 1, below). Each of the five layers is decorated with niches containing standing
Buddha images.
Thailand - 559
Temple & Shrines
http://www.city.kyoto.jp/sankan/kankoshinko/
visitor/ts.html
At these temples, a visitor can witness
a host of temple and shrine events, such as festivals, dramatic productions, and concerts
that give the traveler as well as the modern Japanese a glimpse of Japan's past.
Japan - 714
The Temple of Heaven Complex -
Beijing 1420 to 153
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Site detailing the Temple
of Heaven Complex
China - 581
The Glimpse of temples in Indonesia
http://www.emp.pdx.edu/htliono/temples.html
Central Java was indeed agricultural region, but the building of many
temples which use heavy stones consumed much labor which cause their field unattended.
This situation caused economical chaos from the economical point. Moreover, East Java,
especially the area along Brantas River (a big river), had the potentiality to be a center
of trade with foreign
Indonesia -
1147
Wat Benchamabophit, Bangkok
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This unique temple is located on Sri
Ayutthaya Road near Chitlada Palace, the official residence of the present monarch and his
family
Thailand -
844
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