CAMBODIAN ARCHITECTURE

• KHMER

  • An ancient kingdom in SouthEast asia

  • official language

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CAMBODIAN ARCHITECTURE

• Uyadhapura, houses were mad of wood’

• KHMER PERIOD

  • Javanese influence

    • Temple Cella : Temple Mountain and concept of god-king

  • Built another capital

    • Temple mountain of Phnom Bakheng : isolated five leveled pyramid

  • Construction of Roluous

    • urban irrigation system

  • MATERIALS

    • sandstone, laterite and wood

• DEFINITION OF FUCKING TERMS?

  • STRUCTURES

    • Central sanctuary

      • home to the temples deity

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    • Prang

      • tall-finger like spire

    • Gallery

      • passage running along the wall of an enclosure

    • Gopura

      • entrance building; passage through the enclosure walls

    • Hall of Dancers

      • found in certain late 12th century temples

    • Library

      • function broadly as religious shrines

    • Srah and Baray

      • reservoirs

      • Largest : West and East Baray

    • Temple Mountain

      • dominant scheme for the construction of state temples in the Angkorian Period

  • ELEMENTS

    • Bas-Reliefs

      • individual figures or entire scenes into stone walls

    • Blind Door and Window

      • open in the east direction

      • to maintain symmetry

    • Colonette

      • narrow decorative columns that served as supports for the beams

    • Corbelling

      • used to construct rooms , passageways

    • Lintel , Pediment and Tympanum

      • Lintel; horizontal beam connecting two vertical columns

      • Pediment: roughly triangular structure

      • Tympanum: decorated surface of the pediment

    • Stairs

      • steep angkorian steep

  • MOTIFS

    • ASPARAS AND DEVATAS

      • divine nymphs or female spirits of cloud and waters ( Asparas)

      • Devata- diety

    • DVARAPALA

      • human or demonic guardians ; protect the temples

    • GAJASIMHA AND REACHISEY

      • animal with the body of a lion and head of elephant

    • GARUDA

      • part man part bird

    • INDRA

      • sky god

    • KALA

      • ferocious monster

    • KRISHNA

      • hero and avatar of the God Vishnu

    • LINGA

      • Phallic post of god Shiva

    • Makara

      • sea monster; body of a serpent

    • NAGA

      • mythical serpent

      • NAGA BRIDGE

        • causeways or true bridges

    • QUINCUNX

      • Special arrangement of five elements

    • SHIVA AND VISHNU

TEMPLES OF ANGKOR

1. Angkor Wat

   • temple complex by Suryavarman

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2. Temples

   1. Phnom Bakheng

      • First temple at angkor

   2. Prasat Kravan

      • five brick towers and brick bas relief

   3. Phimeanakas

      • a single pyramid of laterite

   4. Ta Keo

      • first major temple made of sandstone

   5. Angkor wat

      1. world largest religious monument

   6. Preah Khan

      1. labyrinth of pavilions

   7. Bayon

      1. bas-relief murals

3. Palaces

   1. The Royal Palace

   2. Preah Thineng Dheva Vinnichayyeah

      • used for religious and royal ceremonies

   3. Preah Thineang chan chhaya

      1. moonlight pavilion, serves as stage for Khmer classical dance

   4. Phreah Vihear Preah keo morakot

      1. silver pagoda

   5. Prasat Khemarin

      1. palace of the khmer king