Ancient Chinese Architecture

Author : Xinian Fu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781400885138

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Traditional Chinese Architecture by Xinian Fu Pdf

A groundbreaking book by one of the world's leading historians of Chinese architecture Translated by Alexandra Harrer. Fu Xinian is considered by many to be the world's leading historian of Chinese architecture. He is an expert on every type of Chinese architecture from every period through the nineteenth century, and his work is at the cutting edge of the field. Traditional Chinese Architecture gathers together, for the first time in English, twelve seminal essays by Fu Xinian. This wide-ranging book pays special attention to the technical aspects of the building tradition since the first millennium BC, and Fu Xinian's signature drawings abundantly illustrate its nuances. The essays delve into the modular basis for individual structures, complexes, and cities; lateral and longitudinal building frames; the unity of sculpture and building to create viewing angles; the influence of Chinese construction on Japanese architecture; and the reliability of images to inform us about architecture. Organized chronologically, the book also examines such topics as the representation of architecture on vessels in the Warring States period, early Buddhist architecture, and the evolution of imperial architecture from the Tang to Ming dynasty. A biography of Fu Xinian and a detailed Chinese-English glossary are included. Bringing together some of the most groundbreaking scholarship in Chinese architectural history, Traditional Chinese Architecture showcases an uncontested master of the discipline.

Author : Jeffrey W. Cody,Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt,Tony Atkin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780824861018

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Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts by Jeffrey W. Cody,Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt,Tony Atkin Pdf

In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scholarships to train as architects at American universities whose design curricula were dominated by Beaux-Arts methods. Upon their return home in the 1920s and 1930s, these graduates began to practice architecture and create China’s first architectural schools, often transferring a version of what they had learned in the U.S. to Chinese situations. The resulting complex series of design-related transplantations had major implications for China between 1911 and 1949, as it simultaneously underwent cataclysmic social, economic, and political changes. After 1949 and the founding of the People’s Republic, China experienced a radically different wave of influence from the Beaux-Arts through advisors from the Soviet Union who, first under Stalin and later Khrushchev, brought Beaux-Arts ideals in the guise of socialist progress. In the early twenty-first century, China is still feeling the effects of these events. Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts examines the coalescing of the two major architectural systems, placing significant shifts in architectural theory and practice in China within relevant, contemporary, cultural, and educational contexts. Fifteen major scholars from around the world analyze and synthesize these crucial events to shed light on the dramatic architectural and urban changes occurring in China today—many of which have global ramifications. This stimulating and generously illustrated work is divided into three sections, framed by an introduction and a postscript. The first focuses on the convergence of Chinese architecture and the École des Beaux-Arts, outlining the salient aspects of each and suggesting how and why the two "met" in the U.S. The second section centers on the question of how Chinese architects were influenced by the Beaux-Arts and how Chinese architecture was changed as a result. The third takes an even closer look at the Beaux-Arts influence, addressing how innovative practices, new schools of architecture, and buildings whose designs were linked to Beaux-Arts assumptions led to distinctive new paradigms that were rooted in a changing China. By virtue of its scope, scale, and scholarship, this volume promises to become a classic in the fields of Chinese and Western architectural history. Contributors: Tony Atkin, Peter J. Carroll, Yung Ho Chang,Jeffrey W. Cody, Kerry Sizheng Fan, Fu Chao-Ching, Gu Daqing, Seng Kuan,Delin Lai, Xing Ruan, Joseph Rykwert, Nancy S. Steinhardt, David VanZanten, Rudolf Wagner, Zhang Jie, Zhao Chen.

Author : Qingxi Lou
Publisher : 五洲传播出版社
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 7801138228

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The Architectural Art of Ancient China by Qingxi Lou Pdf

Author : Yanxin Cai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521186445

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Chinese Architecture by Yanxin Cai Pdf

This book provides an illustrated introduction to Chinese architecture, a reference for modern design and a window into China's history.

Author : Ssu-ch eng Liang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:470746615

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A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture by Ssu-ch eng Liang Pdf

Author : Jianfei Zhu,Chen Wei,Li Hua
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317914716

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Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture by Jianfei Zhu,Chen Wei,Li Hua Pdf

This handbook, representing the collaboration of 40 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of roughly 6,000 years of Chinese architecture, from ancient times to the present. This volume combines a broad-spectrum approach with a thematic framework for investigating Chinese architecture, integrating previously fragmented topics and combining the scholarship of all major periods of Chinese history. By organizing its approach into five parts, this handbook: Traces the practices and traditions of ancient China from imperial authority to folk culture Unveils a rich picture of early modern and republican China, revealing that modernization was already beginning to emerge Describes the social, intellectual, ideological, and formal enterprises of socialist architecture Frames a window on a complex and changing contemporary China by focusing on autonomy, state practices, and geopolitics of design, ultimately identifying its still evolving position on the world stage Examines the existing cultural and political theories to highlight potential avenues for future transformations in Chinese architecture that also retain Chinese identity Providing a pioneering combination of ancient and modern Chinese architecture in one coherent study, this book is a must-read for scholars, students, and educators of Chinese architecture, architectural history and theory, and the architecture of Asia.

Author : Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691191973

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Chinese Architecture by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt Pdf

An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to today Throughout history, China has maintained one of the world’s richest built civilizations. The nation’s architectural achievements range from its earliest walled cities and the First Emperor’s vision of city and empire, to bridges, pagodas, and the twentieth-century constructions of the Socialist state. In this beautifully illustrated book, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt presents the first fully comprehensive survey of Chinese architecture in any language. With rich political and historical context, Steinhardt covers forty centuries of architecture, from the genesis of Chinese building through to the twenty-first century and the challenges of urban expansion and globalism. Steinhardt follows the extraordinary breadth of China’s architectural legacy—including excavation sites, gardens, guild halls, and relief sculpture—and considers the influence of Chinese architecture on Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Tibet. Architectural examples from Chinese ethnic populations and various religions are examined, such as monasteries, mosques, observatories, and tombs. Steinhardt also shows that Chinese architecture is united by a standardized system of construction, applicable whether buildings are temples, imperial palaces, or shrines. Every architectural type is based on the models that came before it, and principles established centuries earlier dictate building practices. China’s unique system has allowed its built environment to stand as a profound symbol of Chinese culture. With unprecedented breadth united by a continuous chronological narrative, Chinese Architecture offers the best scholarship available on this remarkable subject for scholars, students, and general readers.

Author : Sicheng Liang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PSU:000060977410

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Chinese Architecture by Sicheng Liang Pdf

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Author : Jiren Feng
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824861162

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Chinese Architecture and Metaphor by Jiren Feng Pdf

Investigating the historical tradition of Chinese architectural writing from antiquity to the twelfth century, Chinese Architecture and Metaphor reveals significant and fascinating social and cultural phenomena in the most important primary text for the study of the Chinese building tradition. Unlike previous scholarship, which has reviewed this imperially commissioned architectural manual largely as a technical work, this volume considers the Yingzao fashi’s unique literary value and explores the rich cultural implications in and behind its technical content. Utilizing a philological approach, the author pays particular attention to the traditional and contemporary architectural terminology presented in the Yingzao fashi. In examining the semantic meaning of the architectural terms used in the manual, he uncovers a systematic architectural metaphor wherein bracketing elements are likened to flowers, flowering branches, and foliage: Thus pillars with bracketing above are compared to blossoming trees. More importantly, this intriguing imagery was shared by different social groups, in particular craftsmen and literati, and craftsmen themselves employed literary knowledge in naming architectural elements. Relating these phenomena to the unprecedented flourishing of literature, the literati’s greater admiration of technical knowledge, and the higher intellectual capacity of craftsmen during the Song, Architecture and Metaphor demonstrates how the learned and “unlearned” cultures entangled in the construction of architectural knowledge in premodern China. It convincingly shows that technical language served as a faithful carrier of contemporary popular culture and aesthetic concepts. Chinese Architecture and Metaphor demonstrates a high level of engagement with a broad spectrum of sophisticated Chinese sources. It will become a classic work for all students and scholars of East Asian architecture.

Author : Lou Qingxi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:56550738

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Ancient Chinese Architecture by Lou Qingxi Pdf

Author : Paul Decker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951000067070L

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Chinese Architecture by Paul Decker Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:729094069

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Ancient Chinese Architecture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781462906680

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Chinese Houses by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Architecture "Book of the Year" Award! Exquisite examples of traditional dwellings are scattered throughout modern-day China. Chinese Houses focuses on 20 well-preserved traditional Chinese homes, presenting examples from a range of rural and metropolitan areas throughout China. The photographs of each are accompanied by extensive background information and historical content. An introductory essay examines the different types of Chinese homes and provides an overview of the rich regional variety of Chinese dwelling forms. It also provides insights into little-known design concepts that emphasize the flexibility, adaptability, and versatility of traditional building forms and the work of traditional craftsmen. Richly illustrated with photographs, woodblock prints, historic images, and line drawings, Chinese Houses portrays an architectural tradition of amazing range and resilience.

Author : Razak Basri
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783640977994

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Investigation on the Influence of Chinese Traditional Elements in Contemporary Building Design by Western Architects in China by Razak Basri Pdf

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2010 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, ( Atlantic International University ), course: Doctorate in Architecture (PhD), language: English, abstract: China is transforming in terms of economy, social, culture and physical development. Due to this, rapid urban development in China threatens the urban fabric of Chinese cities. Development has attempted to balance strong Western influences with traditional Chinese forms and has met mixed results. Although, it is already in existence of a new current of Chinese regionalism in architecture but this trend could be further improved by careful applications of the principles of architecture. This thesis presents five case studies of current Chinese completed building projects in two major urban settings; Beijing and Shanghai, designed by Western architects. Each case study is examined in each of the basic elements of architecture in relation to traditions and modern architecture. These case studies are then used as the foundation for specific recommendations for future development of contemporary Chinese architectural regionalism, in particular focusing on ways to integrate traditional or vernacular techniques, devices and forms with modern needs, modern technologies, and foreign influences in order to enhance the regional culture and built environment. There is distinction made between Beijing and Shanghai in which Beijing is more of a historic city emphasizing Chinese government, while Shanghai is more of an economic nerve of China emphasizing trade, finance and international business. Together, the two cities form the forefront of the built environment showcase of China.

Author : Shuishan Yu
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780295992136

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Chang'an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture by Shuishan Yu Pdf

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Washington).