China S Old Dwellings

Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780824881115

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China's Old Dwellings by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

China's Old Dwellings is the most comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms in any language. It and its companion volume, China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation (UH Press, 1999), together form a landmark study of the environmental, historical, and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world's population. Both books draw on the author's thirty years of fieldwork and extensive travel in China as well as published and unpublished material in many languages. China's Old Dwellings begins by tracing the interest in Chinese vernacular buildings in the twentieth century. Early chapters detail common and distinctive spatial components, including the interior and exterior modular spaces that are axiomatic components of most Chinese dwellings as well as conventional structural components and building materials common in Chinese construction. Later chapters examine representative housing types in the three broad cultural realms--northern, southern, and western--into which China has been divided. Knapp completes his survey with an exploration of China's old dwellings in the context of the rapid economic and social changes that are destroying so many of them.

Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 The photographs of each are accompanied by extensive background information and historical content.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 : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015015337754

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China's Vernacular Architecture by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

Knapp (geography, SUNY) continues the work of his previous books by examining the distinctive characteristics of the common house in Zhejing province. Over 300 original photographs illustrate his discussion of construction techniques, the organization of space, settlement patterns, the expression of

Author : Qijun Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3211830308

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Ancient Chinese Architecture by Qijun Wang Pdf

The sophistication of Ancient Chinese Architecture gives it a special place within the architecture of the world. There are magnificant imperial palaces, solemn and breathtaking imperial tombs, mysterious sacrificial and ancestral altars and temples as well as a variety of vernacular dwellings of natural simplicity. Religious buildings are dotted about the country, with a riotous profusion of Buddhist, Taoist and Islamic temples or mosques. On top of all this, city walls and fortifications, civic buildings for miscellaneous purposes are rich in variety and form impressive landmarks. A fascinating tour of the architectural and artistic highlights of China’s rich cultural heritage in 10 volumes.

Author : Qijun Wang
Publisher : Cn Times Books Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 1627740163

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Vernacular Architecture by Qijun Wang Pdf

"Vernacular Dwellings" traces the evolution of Chinese dwellings, from early nomadic cave dwellings to the classic courtyard house. He also discusses the techniques and materials used to construct traditional dwellings, from early mixed clay and wood construction, to the brick and concrete used in the modern era. The layouts of towns and villages are also explored in terms of feng shui, including the position of towns, the configuration of streets, and the placement of squares. "Vernacular Dwellings" includes 121 color photographs, 86 illustrations and figures, and 2 maps, illustrating, province by province, the vernacular dwelling characteristics of different areas of China, and showing the beauty created by Chinese artists and architects.

Author : Bonnie Shemie
Publisher : Tundra Books (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0887763693

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Houses of China by Bonnie Shemie Pdf

An historic look at housing in China. Illus. 24p. 8-12 yrs.

Author : Professor and Chairman Department of Geography Ronald G Knapp,Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0824820797

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China's Living Houses by Professor and Chairman Department of Geography Ronald G Knapp,Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

It has been said that for the Chinese "a house is a living symbol," one endowed with meaning and the result of conscious action. China's Living Houses is the first book in any language to explore comprehensively the extraordinarily complex links among folk beliefs and household ornamentation across time, space, and social class. Well-written and copiously illustrated, it reveals dwellings as dynamic entities that express the vitality of Chinese families as each journeys through life.

Author : Qi Jun Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3211830308

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Ancient Chinese Architecture by Qi Jun Wang Pdf

The sophistication of Ancient Chinese Architecture gives it a special place within the architecture of the world. There are magnificant imperial palaces, solemn and breathtaking imperial tombs, mysterious sacrificial and ancestral altars and temples as well as a variety of vernacular dwellings of natural simplicity. Religious buildings are dotted about the country, with a riotous profusion of Buddhist, Taoist and Islamic temples or mosques. On top of all this, city walls and fortifications, civic buildings for miscellaneous purposes are rich in variety and form impressive landmarks. A fascinating tour of the architectural and artistic highlights of China’s rich cultural heritage in 10 volumes.

Author : Qijun Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3211830308

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Ancient Chinese Architecture by Qijun Wang Pdf

The sophistication of Ancient Chinese Architecture gives it a special place within the architecture of the world. There are magnificant imperial palaces, solemn and breathtaking imperial tombs, mysterious sacrificial and ancestral altars and temples as well as a variety of vernacular dwellings of natural simplicity. Religious buildings are dotted about the country, with a riotous profusion of Buddhist, Taoist and Islamic temples or mosques. On top of all this, city walls and fortifications, civic buildings for miscellaneous purposes are rich in variety and form impressive landmarks. A fascinating tour of the architectural and artistic highlights of China’s rich cultural heritage in 10 volumes.

Author : Elizabeth LaCouture
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231543798

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Dwelling in the World by Elizabeth LaCouture Pdf

By the early twentieth century, Chinese residents of the northern treaty-port city of Tianjin were dwelling in the world. Divided by nine foreign concessions, Tianjin was one of the world’s most colonized and cosmopolitan cities. Residents could circle the globe in an afternoon, strolling from a Chinese courtyard house through a Japanese garden past a French Beaux-Arts bank to dine at a German café and fall asleep in a British garden city-style semi-attached brick house. Dwelling in the World considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how tempos and structures of everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Elizabeth LaCouture argues that the intimate ideas and practices of the modern home were more important in shaping the gender and status identities of Tianjin’s urban elites than the new public ideology of the nation. Placing the Chinese home in a global context, she challenges Euro-American historical notions that the private sphere emerged from industrialization. She argues that concepts of individual property rights that emerged during the Republican era became foundational to state-society relations in early Communist housing reforms and in today’s middle-class real estate boom. Drawing on diverse sources from municipal archives, women’s magazines, and architectural field work to social surveys and colonial records, Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new perspectives on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology and everyday life.

Author : Yanxin Cai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Jiawen Han
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351363297

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China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market by Jiawen Han Pdf

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 to Chinese modernity, this book examines this phenomenon in detail. In particular, it highlights how changes in the social-political system, the residual influence of Mao and the demands of the market have each shaped and determined style and form in recent years. Using key case studies of Liu Jiakun, Cui Kai, and URBANUS, it analyses the intricate details of historical pressures and practical strategies affecting Chinese architecture. In doing so, it demonstrates that Chinese architects contribute in specific ways to the international architectural discourse, since they are actively engaging with the complex societal transition of contemporary China and managing the dynamics and conflicts arising during the process. China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market offers a lens into the innovation and uniqueness of architectural design in China. As such, this book will be useful for students and scholars of architecture, Chinese culture and society and urban studies.

Author : Cai Yanxin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 7508533844

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Chinese Architecture by Cai Yanxin Pdf

Author : Peter G. Rowe,Ann Forsyth,Har Ye Kan
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035607062

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China's Urban Communities by Peter G. Rowe,Ann Forsyth,Har Ye Kan Pdf

Cities in China are extremely dynamic and experience high pressure to grow, transform and adapt. But in what directions, on what basis and to which goals? The authors and their team have researched the intensive transformation processes of about twenty-five neighborhood communities that were created in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou in the last 30 years, ranging from inner-city to peripheral areas, starting from planning and leading up to user satisfaction studies. This in-depth overview on neighborhood typology and development in China follows the book Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities by Peter Rowe, who is among the world’s best scholars on urban transformation in East Asia, together with his colleagues Ann Forsyth and Har Ye Kan.

Author : Wang Qijun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3211830308

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Ancient Chinese Architecture by Wang Qijun Pdf

The sophistication of Ancient Chinese Architecture gives it a special place within the architecture of the world. There are magnificant imperial palaces, solemn and breathtaking imperial tombs, mysterious sacrificial and ancestral altars and temples as well as a variety of vernacular dwellings of natural simplicity. Religious buildings are dotted about the country, with a riotous profusion of Buddhist, Taoist and Islamic temples or mosques. On top of all this, city walls and fortifications, civic buildings for miscellaneous purposes are rich in variety and form impressive landmarks. A fascinating tour of the architectural and artistic highlights of China’s rich cultural heritage in 10 volumes.