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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Staged Disappointment : Interpreting the Architectural Facade of the Vedanta Temple, San Francisco
Beteiligte:
Sen, Arijit
Erschienen:
University of Chicago Press, 2013
Erschienen in:Winterthur Portfolio
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1086/673870
ISSN:
0084-0416;
1545-6927
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Beschreibung:
<p>The Vedanta Temple of San Francisco is an eclectic specimen of architecture incorporating stylistic features from Western and Eastern traditions. The temple’s design in 1905 and renovation three years later served specific communicative functions in the context of substantial Indian immigration and appearances by Hindu preachers in North America. The article examines the building’s active role in promoting cultural contact by arguing that the layout of the temple and its furnishings encouraged a sequence of choreographed spatial experiences that initially drew people in with a promise of the unfamiliar but brought them back by reproducing the comfort of the familiar.</p>