Tibetan Architecture

During several years of restoration work in Lhasa, THF and Lhasa Archive Project had the opportunity to work with some of the best local experts.

These experts are the old traditional architects, carpenters and masons who built the unique monasteries, palaces and houses on the Tibetan plateau that are now dwindling in numbers. Our work and apprenticeship led us to study many of these historic buildings at first-hand, making detail surveys, documentation and analysis of materials and styles, some of which we would like to share with you here.