Main entry:

Rowe, Peter G.

Title & Author:

Architectural encounters with essence and form in modern China / Peter G. Rowe and Seng Kuan.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.

Description:

287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and index.
Traditionalism versus modernism in China -- Foreign influences and the first generation of Chinese architects -- Four architectural attitudes toward modernization -- The "big roof" controversy -- Struggles with modernism -- The "culture fever" -- A commodification and internationalization of architecture -- Modernization in China -- Appendix A. Profiles of selected Chinese architects and schools -- Appendix B. Glossary of terms.
Dust jacket.
Library copy: presentation copy from Peter Rowe to Phyllis Lambert, dated Sept. 5, 2002.

Summary:

"Built around snatches of discussion overheard in a Beijing design studio, this book explores attitudes toward architecture in China since the opening of the Treaty Ports in the 1840s. Central to the discussion are the concepts of ti and yong, or "essence" and "form," Chinese characters that are used to define the proper arrangement of what should be considered modern and essentially Chinese. Ti and yong have gone through various transformations - for example, from "Chinese learning for essential principles and Western learning for practical application" to "socialist essence and cultural form" and an almost complete reversal to "modern essence and Chinese form.""--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

026218219X (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262182195 (hc. ; alk. paper)
026268151X
9780262681513

Subject:

China Zusammenstellung
Architecture China History 20th century.
Architecture Europe Influence.
Architecture Chine Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture Influence.
Architektur
Architecture China 20th century
China.
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Kuan, Seng.
Presentation copies. Rowe, Peter G. Inscription.
Provenance. Lambert, Phyllis. Inscription.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222317
Call No.: NA1545 .R6 2002
Status: External loan