Download or read book The Grand Palace Bangkok written by Naengnoi Suksri and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Palace is the jewel in the crown of the city of Bangkok, representing the finest flowering of Thai art and culture. Begun in 1782 by King Rama I, whose goal was to recreate the magnificence of the vanquished capital city of Ayutthaya, the Grand Palace is renowned as a glorious resource of Thai culture and decorative style.
Download or read book Guide to the Grand Palace written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial tour of the Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand.
Download or read book Palaces of Bangkok written by Naengnoi Suksri and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides 11 palaces built by the Kings of the Chakri dynasty. Combines with 18 major palaces built for their sons. Details the history of each palace, its inhabitants and its architects.
Download or read book The Grand Palace and Old Bangkok written by Nǣngnō̜i Saksī (M.R.) and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely revised guide to this exquisite complex of buildings.
Download or read book The Grand Palace Bangkok written by Naengnoi Suksri and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and architecture of Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand; includes a chapter on royal ceremonies.
Download or read book Palaces of Bangkok written by Nǣngnō̜i Saksī (M.R.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1782, when Bangkok became the new capital of Siam, King Rama I, the founder of the present Chakri dynasty, at once set abour recreating the glory of the old capital, Ayutthaya, with its beautiful temples and golden palaces. This is a study of the palaces built by the Chakri dynasty.
Download or read book Palaces in Bangkok written by and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring Old Bangkok written by Narisa Chakrabongse and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * An in-depth guide to the most important and sacred sites in BangkokThe area centered around the Grand Palace bordered by the Chao Phraya river on the west and Khlong Khu Muang Doem on the east is undoubtedly Bangkok's cultural center.Known as Rattanakosin Island, it is home to most of the city's most important temples - Wat Pho, Wat Rajabhopit, and Wat Mahathat, to mention just a few - as well as Museum Siam and the recently renovated National Museum. To the south of this iconic are is the famous flower market, while to the north is the tourist mecca of Khao San Road.Exploring Old Bangkok takes the visitor around all the most important sights as well as explaining the meaning of lesser-known landmarks such as the Pig memorial or the Monument to the Expeditionary Force. The guide also includes iconic sights on the west bank of the river such as Wat Arun and the royal barge museum. With the opening of the magnificent metro station, Sanam Chai, access to this center of culture and Thai art has never been easier. Alternatively, visitors can reach the area via the ever-popular tourist boats and maybe take a khlong trip from Tha Chang.Exploring Old Bangkok also features two fascinating walks and a pull-out map with suggestions of where to stay and where to eat.
Download or read book Palaces of Bangkok written by Naengnoi Suksri and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering over 150 years, this book explores one of the most beautiful royal compounds in the world. In Palaces of Bangkok, 11 palaces built by the Kings of the Chakri dyanasty are combined with 18 majtor palaces built for their sons. Professor Emeritus Naengnoi Suksri has made the study of these palaces her life's work. Her authoritative text is accompanied by the superlative photography of Michael Freeman.
Download or read book Old Homes of Bangkok Fragile Link written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Hidden Palaces in Bangkok written by Balthazar Moreno and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most tourists never get to see the biggest teak building in the world when they visit Bangkok. They simply follow the guides, visit the Grand Palace and the sleeping Buddha and think that the tour is over. If they only knew that Bangkok has more amazing buildings to behold. Guide to Hidden Palace's in Bangkok takes you to places most people never see when they visit Bangkok. You will surely not regret buying this book.
Download or read book Guide to the Grand Palace Bangkok written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bangkok written by Caren Weiner Campbell and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bangkok by night draws its lifeblood from the realms of the steamy and the seamy. The capital of Thailand is world-famous for its innumerable massage parlours, yet at the same time the city is rich in historical treasures. Some of its Buddhist temples are more than 400 years old, and contrast strangely with Bangkok’s otherwise cutting-edge modernity. Its unique charm stems also from the winding presence of the Chao Phraya river, a waterway that can hardly be seen due to the multitude of small vessels that ply up and down it daily carrying a vast horde of passengers and goods, representing a cameo of the multiplicity of colours and styles that correspond to everyday life throughout Thailand.
Download or read book Old Bangkok written by Michael Smithies and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Bangkok traces the history of one of Asia's most fascinating cities. This stimulating and sympathetic account of this capital, founded in 1782, recaptures the early days and its expansion in the nineteenth century. Author Michael Smithies describes the principal temples and palaces thatstill survive as well as the corners and crafts that remain relatively unchanged. This book is a must-read for anyone who has been charmed by Bangkok.
Download or read book Bangkok Utopia written by Lawrence Chua and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Utopia” is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao Phraya river as the home of the Chakri dynasty, its orientation was based on material and rhetorical considerations that alluded to ideal times and spaces. The construction of palaces, monastic complexes, walls, forts, and canals created a defensive network while symbolically locating the terrestrial realm of the king within the Theravada Buddhist cosmos. Into the twentieth century, pictorial, narrative, and built representations of utopia were critical to Bangkok’s transformation into a national capital and commercial entrepôt. But as older representations of the universe encountered modern architecture, building technologies, and urban planning, new images of an ideal society attempted to reconcile urban-based understandings of Buddhist liberation and felicitous states like nirvana with worldly models of political community like the nation-state. Bangkok Utopia outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. It examines representations of utopia that developed in the city—as expressed in built forms as well as architectural drawings, building manuals, novels, poetry, and ecclesiastical murals—from its first general strike of migrant laborers in 1910 to the overthrow of the military dictatorship in 1973. Using Thai- and Chinese-language archival sources, the book demonstrates how the new spaces of the city became arenas for modern subject formation, utopian desires, political hegemony, and social unrest, arguing that the modern city was a space of antinomy—one able not only to sustain heterogeneous temporalities, but also to support conflicting world views within the urban landscape. By underscoring the paradoxical character of utopias and their formal narrative expressions of both hope and hegemony, Bangkok Utopia provides an innovative way to conceptualize the uneven economic development and fractured political conditions of contemporary global cities.
Download or read book Bangkok written by Nancy Furstinger and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the city's government, economy, and history of Bangkok.
Download or read book Beyond the Grand Palace Exploring the Heart of Historic Bangkok written by John Ross and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A walking tour of historic Bangkok that guides the reader through the lesser-known, but still fascinating sites of the old city. The guidebook provides detailed descriptions and historical background information about the palaces, temples, forts and other remnants of the city's rich past.
