Movement
Khmer Architecture
Explore in the Atlas →The temple architecture of the Angkorian Khmer Empire in present-day Cambodia, organised around the temple-mountain as an architectural model of Mount Meru, with concentric galleried enclosures, moats representing the cosmic ocean, redented lotus-bud towers and extensive narrative bas-reliefs. The tradition culminated in the 12th-century Angkor Wat.
Ritual Power Memory
Details
- Origin
- Cambodia (Angkor)
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmologyAncestry
- Subject
- More than human
- Cosmological orientation
- MandalaAxis mundi
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Apprenticeship
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- South asianCross cultural cosmological
Referenced by
- Angkor Wat exemplifies
Sources
- Various. Khmer architecture. Wikipedia, 2024.
- Various. Angkor Wat. Wikipedia, 2024.
- Eleanor Mannikka. Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship. University of Hawai'i Press, 1996.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Khmer Architecture." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/khmer-architecture/. Accessed July 17, 2026.