Himalayan Cities: Settlement Patterns, Public Places and Architecture

PROf. DR. Julia A. B. Hegewald is Professor of Oriental Art History in the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies (IOA) at the university of Bonn. until summer 2010 she was Reader (Senior Associate Professor) in the History of Art and Architecture of South Asia, the Himalayas and Tibet in Art History and Visual Studies (AHVS) at the university of Manchester. She is director of the Emmy Noether Research Project on Jainism in Karnataka (DFG), and has written extensively on the art and architecture of South Asia. Her books are Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Developments and Meanings (Brill, 2002) and Jaina Temple Architecture in India: The Development of a Distinct Language in Space and Ritual.