The study consisted of travels and experiencing several types of Indian places and reading on Indological works. The reading introduced several Indian concepts and the travels provided the opportunity to see their concrete and living manifestation. The travels were helpful in gaining an overall understanding. Data is based mainly in the form of photography; sometimes with illustrative sketches and drawings. This was a study of qualities and the concepts that play a specific role in creating definite qualities in “places”. It was about general or universal types, rather than being related to any specific conditions (of a specific example). The first part of the study deals with the idea of “place” (its universal aspects). The second part becomes specific and considers “place” in the Indian context. The architectural qualities were categorised as the physical qualities of things, and as experiential qualities. These were related to the Indian concepts which were the source of their character.