Study of typological instituted[s] within a given architectural system in its fossilic state: i.e., the inscriptions, the markings of Authority and The State, 'internal' regulatory principles, 'inner' codes of coherence.* These texts stubbornly assume the 'core' inscription of any architecture to be hieroglyphic marks of the 'I'. Or, constructions "erected like dikes".
This study plots the anomalies and deviations from the pure datum of the textualised classical in some examples of South Asian architecture. These would serve to plot the manner(s) in which the abstract, grammatical definitions of the architectural artefact transform and envelop the other, lived aspects of reality: that is to say, become contextual by resisting theory. In other words, this study deals with the translation of the Architectural into buildings.