About the Author

Siegfried RCT Enders and Niels Gutschow both studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. Gutschow spent 1962/63 in Japan and returned in 1968 and 1971 to write a Ph. D. thesis about castle-towns. Enders followed in 1974 to study at Kyoto University and write a Ph. D. thesis about the development of Japanese residential buildings. From 1978 he has been a state conservation officer in Wiesbaden, Germany, while Gutschow works as a conservation architect and researcher in Nepal and India. In 1997 Edition Axel Menges published Gutschow's book The Nepalese Caitya - 1500 Years of Buddhist Votive Architecture in the Kathmandu Valley.