nineteenth century the era was yet described as one of the weakest in terms of the realisation of any architectural atmosphere. In cultural circles it was the level of assistant and the faultless completion of the detail that were admired rather than the value of the quantity. Khmer art was taken as a minor art, trailing astern that of India - and even the proficiently known poet Paul Claudel, upon viewing the towers of Angkor Wat, saw single-handedly five stone pineapples fringed connected to flames. This nonattendance of pact came at a era once little was known of the large Angkor monuments, and from the particularly Western millstone to compare things to ones own experience. The French cartoon enjoys defense, logic and conclusive, and is inattentive then technique and the intrinsic value of each form - which consequently tends to ventilate a easy to get to of hierarchy in the answer of art. In the East, by contrast, such perfection matters less. The architecture is the basis for a spiritual trip out, and the angkorian temple, formed of conventions and symbols, is but the translation of an idea, of a force that is in the disaffect ahead to mere aesthetic considerations. Architecturally, supported by the test of period, we can be justified in recognising that the Khmer, in composing Angkor Wat, in arranging the royal esplanade of Angkor Thom or the admirable slant of Prah Khan by now its avenue of bornes and the lake of Neak Pean - or in digging the two barays and the Srah Srang - showed a sealed arrangement for the concept of the grand want, so realising an ensemble that stands unique. As a expansion of measures these are a prelude to the conceptions of Le Notre3 and of the grand urban designers of advanced times. Angkor Wat, comparable to the most impressive of chronicless architectural compositions, in responding to all the requirements of a component within an already intended want, attains a eternal perfection by the restrained monumentality of its finely balanced elements and the truthful concurrence of its proportions. It is a performance of facility, unity and style.