(Izdošanas datums: 04-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781961856387)
Reimagining Environmental Identity by Ping Jiang presents a compelling exploration of architectural practice designed to navigate the dynamic urban landscapes of China and beyond.The book showcases 19 diverse projects from Jiangs stud...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers the first in-depth study of three major Hong Kong public cultural architecture works, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Shatin Town Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC), built in the late-colonial years.Recent developments at t...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the architectural evolution of China from antiquity to the early modern, modern, and contemporary ages. A comprehensive examination of the evolution of Chinese architecture is presented in nine cha...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949-1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. This book investigates the architectural history...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Oct-2024, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253070982)
Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated rammed earth building. These structures were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008. Living in Her...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on the non-Western context and case studies, this book explores theories of interdisciplinary architectural thinking and the construction of urban memory in Chinese cities, with an emphasis on contemporary architecture and the diversity of...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on the leading architectural designs with regional characteristics, Architecture China is a journal whose mission is to disseminate the creative works of contemporary Chinese architecture and deepen an appreciation of Chinese architectura...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Nov-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691240169)
The Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and stages. With a history enlivened by the likes of Khubilai Khan and Marco Polo, this spectacular...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949-1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplif...Lasīt vairāk
This book inquires about the origin of dougong and zaojing in Chinese Bronze Age, and their heavenly interpretations in the Han dynasty (206 BCE220), with an aim to remind people of the rich cultural meanings originally embodied in these two impo...Lasīt vairāk
Shanghai-based Atelier Deshaus stays away from China’s commerce-driven mainstream architectural culture to focus on utterly independent designs that receive widespread international recognition. Shanghai-based Atelier Deshaus, fo...Lasīt vairāk
A systematic, theoretical framework for understanding the design ethos of the award-winning Chinese architecture firm Atelier Archmixing Brings together important writings about the firm and their projects published between 2012 a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Hong Kong University Press, ISBN-13: 9789888754236)
Comprehensive research on a unique painting genre from fourteenth-century China In Painting Architecture, Leqi Yu conducts comprehensive research on jiehua, or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-ce...Lasīt vairāk
Chinas architecture has always impressed, whether the structure is an ancient temple with perfect symmetry or a modern skyscraper that reflects the passing clouds. In the past century, Chinas growth as an economic power and its rapid urbanization...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Mar-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674241015)
Chinese architecture is astonishingly uniform. Buddhists, Daoists, and Muslims, inside China and beyond, built Chinese-style structures the same way for two thousand years, despite mastering new technologies along the way. Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Nov-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300235951)
Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impact In the years following Chinas Cultural Revolution, architecture played an active role in the countrys reintegration into the global economy and ca...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Oct-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Forma Edizioni, ISBN-13: 9788855210447)
This catalog documents an exhibition at the Cini Foundation in Venice from 12 May to 15 July 2021 during the Venice Biennale of ArchitectureHighlights the relationship of Italian architects to regions east of Italy that have seen sig...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Feb-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781943532810)
Beautiful China is the title of the Chinese governments broad policy to ensure the traditions and esthetics of Chinese culture not only survive as heritage but apply to contemporary society and to the future. Beautiful China is also nested within th...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295746883)
One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor (r. 140224) gained renown for constructing Beijings magnificent Forbidden City, directing ambitious naval expeditions, and creating the worlds largest encyclopedia. What th...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jun-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 1 Plus Books, ISBN-13: 9781949736038)
Guides the reader, step-by-step the ancient citys architectural development from the 13th century to the modern day bustling Beijing. It shows through beautiful paintings how the city was established almost symmetrically around a central axis with...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Oct-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824877316)
Timber-framed architecture has long been viewed as an embodiment of Chinese civilization, a hierarchic society ruled by Confucian orthodoxy. Throughout its history, Chinese architectural design was closely regulated by court-enforced building code...Lasīt vairāk
China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese architecture in relation...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Mar-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295744780)
For nearly one hundred years, Shanghai was an international treaty port in which the extraterritorial rights of foreign governments shaped both architecture and infrastructure, and it merits examination as one of the most complex and influential u...Lasīt vairāk
The first survey of Chinasleading female architects,this book features twentyestablished and emerging talents addressing theever-evolving challengesand opportunities ofdesigning in the mostpopulous country on Earth. Over the past decade,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Feb-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774836524)
While diplomats and soldiers carve out empires, civilians play a crucial role in building nation-states. Constructing Empire shows how planners, architects, and civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in the Japanese...Lasīt vairāk
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Drawn from keen observation of the rapidly changing social economic landscape of China, and using OPEN Architectures projects as case studies, Towards Openness is a symphony of seven built projects and six idea chapters which are interestingly inter...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Nov-2018, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781119375951)
Today, architecture in China is at a watershed. Over the last decade, rapid urbanisation and the burgeoning economy turned the country into a playground for the worlds signature architects, making it possible to realise extravagant forms and stru...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores Chinas encounter with architecture and modernity in the tumultuous epoch before Communism an encounter that was mediated not by a singular notion of modernism emanating from the west, but that was uniquely multifarious, deriv...Lasīt vairāk
Beautiful Villages gives a comprehensive review of rural construction practices in contemporary China through a number of projects, such as the intervention of artists and art exhibitions, industrialisation efforts....Lasīt vairāk
A Little Bit of Beijing is an architectural graphic novel focused on contemporary Beijing and contains three volumes: Sanlitun, 798 Art District and Nanluoguxiang. It can be best described as a record of a moment in time in the lives of the three are...Lasīt vairāk
China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese architecture in relation...Lasīt vairāk
The Great Wall of China is the longest structure made by man. This stone dragon, which it is often called, is more than just one wall. Many different segments make up about 13,000 miles of defenses. These fortresses were built by many different group...Lasīt vairāk
Showcases several large-scale design projects, letting the world know that Chinese architecture and Chinese architectural culture are varied and fascinating....Lasīt vairāk
Through 52 critiques, reflections, and essays, architects, urbanists, theorists, critics, and academics from China and elsewhere explore social change in relation to architecture and cities in China, looking at the histories of social change acro...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-May-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691159997)
A groundbreaking book by one of the worlds leading historians of Chinese architectureTranslated by Alexandra HarrerFu Xinian is considered by many to be the worlds leading historian of Chinese architecture. He is an expert o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-May-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Hong Kong University Press, ISBN-13: 9789888390502)
The first half of the twentieth century was fraught with global tensions and political machinations. However, for all the destruction in that period, these geopolitical conditions in Manchuria cultivated an extraordinary variety of architecture...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores Chinas encounter with architecture and modernity in the tumultuous epoch before Communism an encounter that was mediated not by a singular notion of modernism emanating from the west, but that was uniquely multifarious, deriv...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Feb-2017, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295741796)
The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE220 CE), Tang (618907), and Northern Song (9601126) dynasties describing the city of Suzhou. The texts allo...Lasīt vairāk
This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. It is the first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a Wester...Lasīt vairāk
Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close...Lasīt vairāk
