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Author : Qingxi Lou
Publisher : 五洲传播出版社
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 7801138228
Author : Anne Margaret Wright,Anita Croy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317478607
This text uses an innovative approach to the dynamics of labour's decline and proposes policy initiatives necessary for its revitalization. The book emphasises the need for restructuring of capitalism on a global scale and challenges traditional economic and industrial relations wisdom.
Author : Shelia Hollihan-Elliot
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781422294444
China has a rich artistic tradition extending back thousands of years. Art and Architecture of China surveys the art treasures of this vibrant civilization, from ancient and imperial China to today's People's Republic. The arts of each era are interpreted in the context of the life, culture, and politics of that era, offering insights to their meaning and showing how China's artistic output has reflected the development of Chinese society and thought. Art forms studied include ancient bronze ritual vessels and jade; the Three Perfections (calligraphy, poetry, and brush painting); ceramics and porcelain; sculpture; decorative and folk art; and modern, Western-influenced painting. Traditional Chinese architecture and town planning is also explored, revealing key technologies and design principles. In addition, today's interplay between traditional architecture and cutting-edge modernism is examined.
Author : Yanxin Cai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521186445
This book provides an illustrated introduction to Chinese architecture, a reference for modern design and a window into China's history.
Author : Laurence C. S. Sickman,Alexander Coburn Soper
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0140561102
Pt. 1. Painting and sculpture by Lawrence Dickman. pt. 2. Architecture by Alexand ra Soper.
Author : Jeffrey W. Cody,Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt,Tony Atkin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780824861018
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 : Wang Qijun
Publisher : Shanghai Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1602201188
With hundreds of illustrations and insightful text, Chinese Architecture: Discovering China explores the unique architecture of this vast country. The architecture of ancient China embodies the country's expansive cultural heritage, and represents one of the world's great architectural traditions. It also reflects the different topographies and peoples spread across the country's vast territory. Architectural historian Wang Qijun takes readers on a visual journey, investigating the most striking and significant aspects of Chinese architectural history. Accompanied by over 100 photographs and exquisite illustrations, more than 40 of the most important structures from different dynasties are highlighted in this book, such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Yungang Cave, Daming Palace and Dule Temple. A fascinating overview of ancient Chinese architecture and how it influenced history and culture, this book is a must for those interested in learning more about China.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Maxwell K. Hearn
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870994838
Author : Qijun Wang
Publisher : Cn Times Books Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 1627740163
"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 : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 0760780552
Even today the economic powerhouse of modern China takes strength and nourishment from its legacy of antiquity. Ancient China illuminates this venerable heritage with unprecedented scholarship and vividness.
Author : Xinian Fu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781400885138
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 : Jinghua Ru,Hualiang Peng
Publisher : Cn Times Books Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1627740120
Palace Architecture explores the transformation of the palace in ancient China, focusing on the Forbidden City (the Imperial Palace in Beijing), the most famous Chinese imperial palace.
Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861899767
This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions between China and the West since the eighteenth century. Wu Hung leads us through an array of traditional and contemporary visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography, prints, and cinema. A Story of Ruins shows how ruins are integral to traditional Chinese culture in both architecture and pictorial forms. It traces the changes in their representation over time, from indigenous methods of recording damage and decay in ancient China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong interest in urban ruins in contemporary China, as shown in the many artworks that depict demolished houses and decaying industrial sites. The result is an original interpretation of the development of Chinese art, as well as a unique contribution to global art history.
Author : Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691191973
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 : Ran Wei
Publisher : Cn Times Books Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 162774018X
Buddhist Buildings is a heavily illustrated exploration of ancient Chinese Buddhist architecture, using the history of the spread of Buddhism throughout China as a foundation.