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East Asian Architecture in Globalization

Values, Inheritance and Dissemination

Edited by Subin Xu, Nobuo Aoki, Bébio Vieira Amaro ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book collects a selected list of peer-reviewed papers presented at EAAC 2017, International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, the leading conference on architectural history and built heritage conservation in the East Asia region. While centered around the core issue of globalization and its complex effects on East Asian architectural cultures, the selected papers were arranged ... Read more

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This book collects a selected list of peer-reviewed papers presented at EAAC 2017, International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, the leading conference on architectural history and built heritage conservation in the East Asia region. While centered around the core issue of globalization and its complex effects on East Asian architectural cultures, the selected papers were arranged
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Korean Architecture

Breathing with Nature

by Ben Jackson, Robert Koehler ...

Series Book 12 - Korea Essentials
This book offers an introduction to Korea's abundant and unique architectural past and present, combining explanations of the principles behind Korean architecture with introductions to some of the country's finest buildings and structures. It explains some of the ideologies and perspectives that form the foundation of Korean architectural tradition and outlines the history of Korean architecture, ... Read more

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This book offers an introduction to Korea's abundant and unique architectural past and present, combining explanations of the principles behind Korean architecture with introductions to some of the country's finest buildings and structures. It explains some of the ideologies and perspectives that form the foundation of Korean architectural tradition and outlines the history of Korean architecture,
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Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea

by Kim Youngna ...

Series series Korean Culture Series
Korean Culture Series 1Modern and Contemporary Art in KoreaThis book discusses the issues of tradition, modernity, and identity of modern and contemporary art in Korea. Major aspects of the book include Korea’s modernism during the Japanese colonial period, the spread of modernism after the Korean War and art informel, the monochrome art movement, the so-called minjung (people’s) art, revival of ... Read more

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Korean Culture Series 1Modern and Contemporary Art in KoreaThis book discusses the issues of tradition, modernity, and identity of modern and contemporary art in Korea. Major aspects of the book include Korea’s modernism during the Japanese colonial period, the spread of modernism after the Korean War and art informel, the monochrome art movement, the so-called minjung (people’s) art, revival of
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Chinese Houses

The Architectural Heritage of a Nation

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 ... Read more

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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
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Van Gogh on Demand

China and the Readymade

by Winnie Wong ...

"Unsettles contemporary art's unspoken hierarchies and topples modernist and postmodernist assumptions about originality, authenticity, and authorship." — caa ReviewsIn a metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million paintings ... Read more

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"Unsettles contemporary art's unspoken hierarchies and topples modernist and postmodernist assumptions about originality, authenticity, and authorship." — caa ReviewsIn a metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million paintings
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China Home

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by Michael Freeman ...

With rich, detailed photographs and insightful commentary, this Chinese interior design book will provide you with plenty of fresh and colorful decorating ideas.China, long dormant in the world of design and residential architecture, has recently burst onto the world stage. Like everything else in China today, contemporary Chinese design combines elegant and deep-seated traditions with the ... Read more

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With rich, detailed photographs and insightful commentary, this Chinese interior design book will provide you with plenty of fresh and colorful decorating ideas.China, long dormant in the world of design and residential architecture, has recently burst onto the world stage. Like everything else in China today, contemporary Chinese design combines elegant and deep-seated traditions with the
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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

Edited by Edward L. Davis ...

Series series Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture
This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of specialists, to enable readers to explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons to rock groups, underground Christian churches to TV talk shows and radio hotlines. Experimental ... Read more

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This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of specialists, to enable readers to explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons to rock groups, underground Christian churches to TV talk shows and radio hotlines. Experimental
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Understanding the Chinese City

by Li Shiqiao ...

Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
This bookteaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization by:exploring the rise of stories of labour, finance and their hierarchiesexamining how the Chinese city has been shaped by the figuration of the writing systemanalyzing the continuing importance of the family and its barriers of protection against ... Read more

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Chinese Bridges

Living Architecture From China's Past

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Bridges, the least known and understood of China's many wonders, are one of its most striking and resilient feats of architectural prowess.Chinese Bridges brings together a thorough look at the marvels of Chinese bridge design from one of the world's leading experts on Chinese culture and historical geography, Ronald G. Knapp. While many consider bridges to be merely utilitarian civil engineering, ... Read more

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Bridges, the least known and understood of China's many wonders, are one of its most striking and resilient feats of architectural prowess.Chinese Bridges brings together a thorough look at the marvels of Chinese bridge design from one of the world's leading experts on Chinese culture and historical geography, Ronald G. Knapp. While many consider bridges to be merely utilitarian civil engineering,
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The Skycourt and Skygarden

Greening the urban habitat

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Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner-city migration have transformed the traditional city of spaces into the modern city of objects. This has necessitated alternative spatial and technological solutions to replenish those environments that were once so intrinsic to society’s day-to-day interactions and communal activities.This book considers skycourts ... Read more

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Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner-city migration have transformed the traditional city of spaces into the modern city of objects. This has necessitated alternative spatial and technological solutions to replenish those environments that were once so intrinsic to society’s day-to-day interactions and communal activities.This book considers skycourts
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Taipei

City of Displacements

by Joseph R. Allen ...

Series series McLellan Endowed Series
Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book PrizeThis cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei ... Read more

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Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book PrizeThis cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei
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The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art

by Edward Fry, Francesco Bonami, Alexandra Munroe, Hans-Ulrich Obrist ...

The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art is the second installment in an ongoing series collecting out-of-print and hard-to-find essays from past Guggenheim publications and lectures to illuminate focused topics in art history. Much like last fall’s Russia reader, Modern Asian Art examines five decades of the museum’s interest in the region, culminating in this spring’s simultaneous ... Read more

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The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art is the second installment in an ongoing series collecting out-of-print and hard-to-find essays from past Guggenheim publications and lectures to illuminate focused topics in art history. Much like last fall’s Russia reader, Modern Asian Art examines five decades of the museum’s interest in the region, culminating in this spring’s simultaneous
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