The Archive Project

The Lhasa Archive, consisting of thousands of photographs of Tibetan historic buildings, architectural details and working techniques, site maps and several hundred detailed survey drawings, and sources on the history of covered sites, is meant as a resource base for the promotion and further study of Tibetan architecture. We will make more photos and drawings from our database available on-line in the future.

All the pictures featured here, and more photos, surveys and maps of the recorded sites are available to researchers and private users.

Since THF / LAP is a non-profit organisation, we only ask handling costs and, depending on the case, perhaps a contribution to one of our projects.

If you download information, pictures and maps from here, please mention the source.

Technical reports about our restoration works are available on request. We are very interested to exchange practical experiences with other restoration projects, especially involving Himalayan architecture. The precious experience made with some of Tibet's best builders, carpenters, masons and painters since the mid-1990s is there to be shared with all interested parties.