{"id":6864,"date":"2025-11-13T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:20:05","slug":"book-building-craft-traditions-in-tibetan-and-himalayan-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/2025\/11\/13\/book-building-craft-traditions-in-tibetan-and-himalayan-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Craft Traditions in Tibetan and Himalayan Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuleuven.be\/wieiswie\/en\/person\/00039177\">Marc Dujardin<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Emeritus professor<span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">, is co-author of the book &#8220;<strong>Building Craft Traditions<\/strong>\u00a0in Tibetan and Himalayan Architecture,&#8221; edited by Hubert Feiglstorfer &amp; Calum Blaikie. The book approaches the rich architectural heritage of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau in an original way, emphasizing the people, skills, materials, and processes involved in their construction and maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Marc Dujardin&#8217;s contribution can be found under &#8220;CHAPTER III: &#8220;Making&#8221; in Contemporary Bhutan: Balancing on the Cutting Edge of Culture Transfer and Culture Rupture from the Perspective of the Thirteen Traditional Crafts\u00a0<em>(zorig chusum)<\/em>&#8220;, pp. 95-145.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">The book is temporarily available for download via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/verlag.oeaw.ac.at\/en\/product\/building-craft-traditions-in-tibetan-and-himalayan-architecture\/99200977?name=building-craft-traditions-in-tibetan-and-himalayan-architecture&amp;product_form=5695\">this link.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Dujardin,\u00a0Emeritus professor, is co-author of the book &#8220;Building Craft Traditions\u00a0in Tibetan and Himalayan Architecture,&#8221; edited by Hubert Feiglstorfer &amp; Calum Blaikie. The book approaches the rich architectural heritage of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau in an original way, emphasizing the people, skills, materials, and processes involved in their construction and maintenance. Marc Dujardin&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6871,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions\/6871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}