Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts
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Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts

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  2. English
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Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts

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Yes, you can access Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts by Jeffrey W. Cody,Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt,Tony Atkin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Architettura & Critica sull'architettura. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9780824861018
Edition
1
Topic
Architettura
Subtopic
Critica sull'architettura

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. A Note on Chinese Names and Other Clarifications
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I. Divergence to Convergence
  6. 1. Chinese Architecture on the Eve of the Beaux-Arts
  7. 2. Just What Was Beaux-Arts Architectural Composition?
  8. Part II. Convergence to Influence
  9. 3. Convergence to Influence: Introductory Perspectives
  10. 4. Chinese Architecture Students at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s: Tradition, Exchange, and the Search for Modernity
  11. 4. An Outline of Beaux-Arts Education in China: Transplantation, Localization, and Entrenchment
  12. 5. A Classicist Architecture for Utopia: The Soviet Contacts
  13. 6. Beaux-Arts Practice and Education by Chinese Architects in Taiwan
  14. Part III. Influence to Paradigm
  15. Influence to Paradigm: Introductory Perspectives
  16. Yang Tingbao, Dong Dayou, and Liang Sicheng. Modern and Ancient
  17. 7. Yang Tingbao, China’s Modern Architect in the Twentieth Century
  18. 8. Between Beaux-Arts and Modernism. Dong Dayou and the Architecture of 1930s Shanghai
  19. 9. Elevation or Façade: A Re-evaluation of Liang Sicheng’s Interpretation of Chinese Timber Architecture in the Light of Beaux-Arts Classicism
  20. Lü Yanzhi, Zhang Kaiji, and Zhang Bo. Republican and Early Socialist Politics
  21. 10. From Studio to Practice. Chinese and Non-Chinese Architects Working Together
  22. 11. Ritual, Architecture, Politics, and Publicity during the Republic: Enshrining Sun Yat-sen
  23. 12. The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Auditorium: A Preaching Space for Modern China
  24. 13. Zhang vs. Zhang: Symmetry and Split: A Development in Chinese Architecture of the 1950s and 1960s
  25. Chinese Cities. Beaux-Arts Plans and Post-Beaux-Arts Urbanism
  26. 14. The Beaux-Arts in Another Register. Governmental Administrative and Civic Centers in City Plans of the Republican Era
  27. 15. Chinese Urbanism beyond the Beaux-Arts
  28. Afterword. The Four and the Five
  29. Contributors
  30. Index