A Pictorial History Of Chinese Architecture
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Author |
: Sicheng Liang |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
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: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000060977410 |
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: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinese Architecture by : Sicheng Liang
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Author |
: Ssu-ch eng Liang |
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Total Pages |
: 201 |
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: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:470746615 |
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: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture by : Ssu-ch eng Liang
Author |
: Ssu-ch'eng Liang |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262121034 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262121033 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinese Architecture by : Ssu-ch'eng Liang
Author |
: Ssu-ch'eng Liang |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1988162025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781988162027 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture by : Ssu-ch'eng Liang
Author |
: L. Ssu-Ch'eng |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1258612581 |
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: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pictorial history of Chinese architecture by : L. Ssu-Ch'eng
Author |
: Ronald G. Knapp |
Publisher |
: Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 650 |
Release |
: 2012-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781462906680 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1462906680 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinese Houses by : Ronald G. Knapp
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 The photographs of each are accompanied by extensive background information and historical content.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 |
: Jiren Feng |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2012-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824861162 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824861167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinese Architecture and Metaphor by : Jiren Feng
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 |
: Wilma Fairbank |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2009-01-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812220407 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812220404 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Liang and Lin by : Wilma Fairbank
Wilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of Lin Whei-yin and Liang Sicheng. Liang and Lin were born in early twentieth-century China, a time when the influences of modernism were slowly bearing down on the traditional culture. In the 1920s, they traveled together to the Beaux Arts universe of Philadelphia, where they both graduated with honors from the architecture department of the University of Pennsylvania. Married in 1928, they returned to their native land and became the first two professors at the newly founded school of architecture in Shenyang's Tung Pei University. Wilma Fairbank and her husband, John King Fairbank, Harvard University's eminent historian of modern China, were lifelong friends of Liang and Lin. This relationship allows the author, herself a noted researcher of art and architecture, to paint a vivid picture of the couple within the context of China's turbulent past. Fairbank recounts how Liang and Lin used their Western training to initiate the study of China's architectural evolution. She also documents—as seen through the eyes of Liang and Lin—the tragic events that ravaged the Chinese homeland and its people: the 1937 invasion and bombings by the Japanese military and the ensuing illness and poverty; World War II and the civil war; the rise to power of the Communist government in 1949; and the victimization of the scholar class during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76. Fairbank provides a highly readable, emotionally charged personal account of the couple's lives, and the numerous and sometimes horrific torments and humiliations they suffered. And, finally, when it was all too late, the posthumous praise and recognition.
Author |
: Xinian Fu |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 425 |
Release |
: 2017-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400885138 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400885132 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Traditional Chinese Architecture by : Xinian Fu
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 |
: Ssu-ch'eng Liang |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1988162009 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781988162003 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Chinese Architecture by : Ssu-ch'eng Liang