The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · V

Vastu

Also called vastu shastra, vāstu

Sanskrit for “site” or “dwelling”; the traditional science of architecture (vāstu-śāstra).

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters What Is Architecture?, South and Southeast Asia, Reading the Treatises.

Nearby in the glossary

Tympanum · Universal space · Urushringa · Usonian house · Vastu Purusha Mandala · Vedika · Veranda · Vihara