Ashraf (architecture, U. of Hawai'i) investigates how the minimal ascetic hut became a source for an amplified architecture in ancient India and its traditions of asceticism, especially in the practices of Buddhism. He discusses asceticism and architecture, home in the ascetic imagination, the Buddha's house, the two houses of body and building in the ascetic imagination, asceticism and the primitive hut, a hut with many meanings, and the end of architecture. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)