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Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200 - 600
Av Nancy S. Steinhardt, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
815 kr
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Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of …
Kyoto
An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital
Av Matthew Stavros, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
348 kr
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Kyoto was Japan’s political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also among the world’s largest cities and, as the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, it was a place where the political, artistic, and religious …
Topophilia and Topophobia
Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat
Av Xing Ruan, Paul Hogben
Inbunden, 2007
3173 kr
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This book is about the love and hate relations that humans establish with their habitat, which have been coined by discerning modern thinkers as topophilia and topophobia. Whilst such affiliations with the topos, our manmade as well as natural habitat, have been traced back to antiquity, a wide …
Topophilia and Topophobia
Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat
Av Xing Ruan, Paul Hogben
Häftad, 2007
851 kr
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This book is about the love and hate relations that humans establish with their habitat, which have been coined by discerning modern thinkers as topophilia and topophobia. Whilst such affiliations with the topos, our manmade as well as natural habitat, have been traced back to antiquity, a wide …
Hermit's Hut
Asceticism and Architecture in India
Av Kazi Ashraf, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
587 kr
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The Hermit’s Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is typically considered separate from asceticism. …
Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea
Av Inha Jung, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
500 kr
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Although modernisation in Korea started more than a century later than in the West, it has worked as a prominent ideology throughout the past century—in particular it has brought radical changes in Korean architecture and cities. Traditional structures and ways of life have been thoroughly uprooted …
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Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
Av Bianca Bosker, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
340 kr
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A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen’s Guard patrols Shanghai’s Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming replicas of the White House dot …
Diversity in the Great Unity
Regional Yuan Architecture
Av Lala Zuo, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
848 kr
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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 codes, which created a highly standardized and …
Bangkok Utopia
Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910-1973
Av Lawrence Chua, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
877 kr
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Utopia" is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao Phraya river as the home of the Chakri dynasty, …
Dougong
The Cultural Geometry of the Chinese Bracket Set
Av Alexandra Harrer, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
848 kr
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This is the first English-language study devoted to dougong, the block-bracket cluster widely regarded as the epitome of traditional Chinese architecture. For almost two millennia, dougong have been central to the multipartite frame structure of wooden buildings, connecting columns with beams, …
Topophilia and Topophobia
Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat
Av Paul Hogben, Xing Ruan
E-bok, 2020
999 kr
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This book is about the love and hate relations that humans establish with their habitat, which have been coined by discerning modern thinkers as topophilia and topophobia . Whilst such affiliations with the topos , our manmade as well as natural habitat, have been traced back to antiquity, a wide …
Topophilia and Topophobia
Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat
Av Paul Hogben, Xing Ruan
E-bok, 2020
977 kr
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This book is about the love and hate relations that humans establish with their habitat, which have been coined by discerning modern thinkers as topophilia and topophobia . Whilst such affiliations with the topos , our manmade as well as natural habitat, have been traced back to antiquity, a wide …
Confucius’ Courtyard
Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China
Av Xing Ruan
Häftad, 2021
355 kr
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For more than three thousand years, Chinese life – from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home – was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China’s artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius’ Courtyard tells the …
Confucius’ Courtyard
Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China
Av Xing Ruan
E-bok, 2021
385 kr
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For more than three thousand years, Chinese life – from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home – was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China''s artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius'' Courtyard tells …
Confucius’ Courtyard
Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China
Av Xing Ruan
E-bok, 2021
385 kr
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For more than three thousand years, Chinese life – from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home – was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China''s artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius'' Courtyard tells …
Hand & Mind
Conversations on Architecture and the Built World
Häftad, 2018
558 kr
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In Hand & Mind architects and designers reflect on the parts of their practice that are often hidden – their inspiration, the genesis of projects and problems encountered. This image-rich and strikingly designed book profiles a series of projects from UNSW alumni, staff and students, from Glen …
China’s Contested Capital
Architecture, Ritual and Response in Nanjing
Av Charles Musgrove, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
587 kr
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When the Chinese Nationalist Party nominally reunified the country in 1928, Chiang Kai-shek and other party leaders insisted that Nanjing was better suited than Beijing to serve as its capital. For the next decade, until the Japanese invasion in 1937, Nanjing was the “model capital” of Nationalist …
Kyoto
An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital
Av Matthew Stavros, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
935 kr
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Kyoto was Japan’s political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also among the world’s largest cities and, as the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, it was a place where the political, artistic, and religious …
Traces of the Sage
Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius
Av James A. Flath, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
626 kr
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The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) in Qufu is the definitive monument to the world's greatest sage. From its humble origins deep in China's past, the home of Confucius grew in size and stature under the auspices of almost every major dynasty until it was the largest and most richly endowed …
Skyplane
What Effect Do Towers Have on Urbanism, Sustainability, the Workplace and Historic City Centres
Av Richard Jones, Lawrence Nield m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
740 kr
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High-rise buildings dominate the skyline of modern cities around the world. But how do they affect urbanism and culture? Are they necessary to cities? Can they be made more formally engaging? In this fully-illustrated volume, some of architecture's leading thinkers and practitioners come together …
