Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture – serie
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Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
Av Bianca Bosker, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
338 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 …
Architecturalized Asia
Mapping a Continent Through History
Av Vimalin Rujivacharakul, H. Hazel Hahn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
639 kr
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Architecturalized Asia explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons, and symbols in different historical settings. It grows out of a three-year project focusing on cultural exchange in the making of Asia’s boundaries as well as its architectural styles and …
Modern Kyoto
Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868-1940
Inbunden, 2018
797 kr
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Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intriguing question in Modern Kyoto, a comprehensive study of the architectural and urban projects carried out in the old capital following Emperor Meiji’s move to Tokyo in 1868. Tseng contends that …
Diversity in the Great Unity
Regional Yuan Architecture
Av Lala Zuo, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
841 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
869 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
841 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, …
Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200 - 600
Av Nancy S. Steinhardt, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
797 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 …
Chinese Architecture and Metaphor
Song Culture in the 'Yingzao Fashi' Building Manual
Av Feng Jiren
Inbunden, 2012
625 kr
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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. …
China’s Contested Capital
Architecture, Ritual and Response in Nanjing
Av Charles Musgrove, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
582 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
927 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
621 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 …
