Books 

^{Bernier, Ronald M. The Nepalese Pagoda: Origin and Style. New Delhi: S. Chand and Company Ltd., 1979.}

^{This book is a detailed study of the pagoda style. It provides information about shape, construction, origin of Nepalese pagoda style and some comparative study of Nepalese architecture with Indian architecture.}

^{Bussagli, Mario. Oriental Architecture: History of World Architecture. Translated by John Shapely. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1974.}

^{This book is mainly about the oriental architecture. Nepalese architecture is discussed in a small chapter, which is quite informative.}

^{Finlay, Hugh. Nepal. 2nd ed. London: Lonely Planet Publications, 1999.}

^{This is a travel guidebook. It provides the general information about the geography, cities, people, and culture of Nepal.}

^{Hosken, Fran P. Kathmandu Valley Towns: A Record of Life and Changes. New York: John Weatherhill Inc., 1974.}

^{This book is about the people, lifestyle and places in Kathmandu Valley. A lot of plates provided in the books make it very easy to visualize the place but there is not much written explanations.}

^{Hutt, Michael. Nepal: A Guide to The Art and Architecture of The Kathmandu Valley. Boston: Shambhala, 1995.}

^{This book is good to get an overall view of Nepalese architecture in Kathmandu valley.}

^{Moran, Kerry. Nepal: Handbook. 3rd ed. Emeryville, CA: Avalon Travel Publishers, 1996.}

^{This is also a travel guidebook. It gives general information about the geography, people, places and lifestyle in Nepal.}

^{Rosa, Leo E. and Scholz, John T. Nepal: Profile of a Himalayan Kingdom. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1980.}

S^{lusser, Mary S. Nepal Mandala: Cultural Study of The Kathmandu Valley, vol. 1 and 2, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.}

^{This may be one of the best books we have to learn about Nepal. It has elaborate detail about the history, people, temples, and religion of Nepal along with photographs; however, the book is not from the architectural point of view.}

^{Tiwari, Sudarshan Raj. The Tiered Temples of Nepal. 2nd ed. Kathmandu: Sunita Tiwari, 1989.}

^{This book provides a detailed history, origin and the development of Nepalese Pagoda. It provides a detail study on pagoda style development on some temples in Kathmandu Valley.}

^{Wiesner, Ulrich. Nepalese Temple Architecture: Its Characteristics and Its Relation to Indian Development. Leiden, Netherlands, 1978.}

^{Wolfgang, Korn: Traditional Architecture of The Kathmandu Valley. Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Publishers, 1989.}

^{This is a good book for the architectural study of Nepal. It provides detailed study of different building types of ancient Nepal.}

^Articles

^{Basnet, Shan Bahadur and Niraula, Raj Kumar. “Nepalese architecture.” The Kathmandu Post, (June 2001)}

^Links

The Kathmandu Valley
http://www.colorado.edu/APS/landscapes

This site, from the work of Dr. J. McKim Malville at University of Colorado,  provides general information about some of the temples in Kathmandu Valley.

Nepal
http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/himalayas/products.html#KATHMANDU

Good site for information about the geography of Nepal

The Changing Townscapes of the Kathmandu Valley
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/6969/Contents.htm

This is one of the good sites about the information on Nepalese monuments. There are many articals which describe the history and the architecture of the monuments.

A Report on Nepalese Architecture

Students of architecture from a university in Kathmandu create this site. It provides detailed study of some architectural monuments of Kathmandu Valley.

A Guide to Travel and Tours in Nepal
http://www.manang.com

This is Basically a travel guide site, but we can get some general information about Nepal and its history and culture.

Lonely planet world guide on line: Destination Nepal.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/indian_subcontinent/nepal/index.htm

this site provides a lot of generalized information about Nepal.

Nepal slide show
http://12.22.39.66/Gallery1/nepal.htm

This site not about Nepal or the architecture. But a lot of photographs of Nepal are there on the web, which are very interesting and informative.