Routledge handbook of Chinese architecture. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jianfei Zhu, Wei CHEN, Hua LI.
• Editors: Zhu, Jianfei, 1962-; (Architecture teacher), Chen, Wei; Li, Hua
• Contents: Introduction 1 Reassembling for a Chinese Architecture: Notes for a New Departure; Jianfei Zhu, Chen Wei, and Li Hua PART I: ANCIENT AND DYNASTIC TRADITION State Governance Over Building and City Planning 2 The Chinese City in the Service of the State; Nancy S. Steinhardt 3 Typical Design Features of Ming Palaces and Altars in Beijing; Fu Xinian 4 Imperial Cities: Critical Changes in Urban Paradigm from Sui-Tang to Song; Heng Chye Kiang 5 Yingzao Fashi: The Book and Methodical Issues for Studying It; Pan Guxi Literati Culture and Social Production 6 Literati Gardens of the Jiangnan Region: Characters and Mutations; Gu Kai 7 Cang Lang Pavilion of Suzhou: Sentiment, Scenery, Aura, and Meaning; Chen Wei 8 Landscape Urbanism: Urban–Rural Relations in Hangzhou of Southern Song China; Jia Xu 9 Confucian Authority: Analysis of School-Temples at Imperial Academy of Beijing; Shen Yang Folk Culture and Vernacular Practice 10 Fengshui Practice and Urban Development in Ancient China: An Outline; Dong Wei 11 Yang Yunsong and the Jiangxi School of Fengshui Practice in Southern China; Cheng Jianjun 12 Carpentry In Vernacular Building Practice: The Master’s Way; Chang Yu-yu 13 Vernacular Architecture: Themes and Variations Over a Large Country; Ho Puay Peng PART II: REPUBLICAN AND EARLY MODERN TRANSFORMATION The Arrival of “Architecture”: Profession, Knowledge, and Education 14 Emergence of “Architecture”: In the Reform Years of Late Qing Dynasty; Xu Subin 15 The Architect as a Profession in Republican China: Rising Under the State; Wang Xiaoqian Modern Building Practice: Style and Technology 16 Building Technology in Republican China and Its Historical Legacies; Li Haiqing 17 Chinese Classical Revival: Nanjing, Capital of Republican China (1910s–40s); Zhou Qi and Ji Qiu Modern City Construction and Spatial Formation 18 From Hankou Town to Greater Wuhan: Urban Spatial Organizations in Early Modern China; Li Baihao 19 Modern Edutainment Space: Public Parks in Early Twentieth-Century China; Zhang Tianjie PART III: SOCIALIST-MAOIST MODERNIZATION Spatial Construction and City Planning Under Socialist Ideology 20 Socialist Urban Planning in Mao’s China (1949–1976); Li Baihao 21 Danwei and Socialist Urbanism; Duanfang Lu Practice, Education, and Knowledge Production 22 The Design Institute in Mao’s China (1950s–70s); Ke Song 23 Architectural Education in China (1950s–1980s): Constructing and Deconstructing; Qian Feng 24 Theories of Spatial Composition: Design Knowledge in China up to the 1980s; Li Hua 25 Liang and Liu: Strategies for Writing an Architectural History in the 1950s; Zhuge Jing Architecture in Socialist China: Nationalism and Modernism 26 National Style: Thinking and Building for a New Republic in Beijing (1949–1959); Jianfei Zhu 27 Towards a Regional Modernism in Chinese Architecture (1930s–70s); Eduard Kögel 28 For a Modernism: Huang and Feng at Shanghai’s Tongji Architectural Programme; Lu Yongyi 29 Building Canton Fair: Towards a Regional Modernism in Southern China (1950s–1980s); Jiang Feng PART IV: CONTEMPORARY HISTORIES: CHINA IN THE WORLD Architects and the Issue of Autonomy 30 Critical Pragmatism: Architects as Refl exive Individuals in Contemporary China; Li Xiangning 31 Architects as Authoring Individuals: Y. H. Chang, Liu Jiakun, and Wang Shu; Hing-Wah Chau State Design Institutes in the Reform Era 32 From Mao to Market: Evolution of the State Design Institutes in China; Charlie Q. L. Xue and Guanghui Ding 33 The Chinese Design Institute: A Critique of “Critical Thinking”; Jianfei Zhu CBDs: Global Spectacles 34 Objects in Territories Along Avenues: Spatial Planning in Beijing and Shanghai; Peter G. Rowe and Har Ye Kan 35 Iconic Architecture in China (2000s): Historical Reading or Marxist Critique; Ming Wu 36 Urban–Rural Development in China and a Way Forward With “New Urbanization”; Wang Jianguo Geopolitical Differentiations 37 “Chinese Cultural Renaissance” and a Chinese Neoclassicism: Taiwan (1960s–80s); Chao-ching Fu 38 Architects as Reflexive Individuals: Taiwan and Hong Kong Since the 1950s; Ke Song PART V: THEORIZATION Culture and Epistemology 39 Ten Lamps of Architecture in Chinese Culture; Wang Guixiang 40 Deriving Architectural Theory From Chinese Philosophy: ThinkingWith Xunzi; David Wang 41 Figuration: Writing, Memory, and Cities in Chinese Culture; Shiqiao Li 42 Signs of Empire: Scale and Statehood in Chinese Culture; Jianfei Zhu Political Ethics 43 The State Function of Architecture; Shiqiao Li 44 Political Space and Moral Statehood; Jianfei Zhu Methodology 45 Studies on Architecture of Ancient China: As in Part I; Chen Wei, Li Hua, and Jianfei Zhu 46 Perspectives on Architecture of (Modern) China: As in Parts II–V and Part I; Jianfei Zhu, Li Hua, and Chen Wei
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 720.951; Architecture -- China
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317914716; 9781317914723; 9781317914709
• Related ISBNs: 9780415729222
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