Work
Chand Baori
Explore in the Atlas →One of India's deepest and most geometrically dramatic stepwells, its thirteen storeys of inverted, mirrored stairs descend to groundwater, fusing water infrastructure with sacred and communal space.
Exchange Ritual Settlement
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Abhaneri, Rajasthan, India
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmologyAncestry
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- Mandala
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipOral song embodied
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- South asian
Connections
- exemplifies Vernacular Architecture
- exemplifies Stepwell Architecture
Sources
- Morna Livingston. Steps to Water: The Ancient Stepwells of India. Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
- Victoria Lautman. The Vanishing Stepwells of India. Merrell, 2017.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Chand Baori." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/chand-baori/. Accessed July 17, 2026.