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Media coverage of Japanese architecture the past twenty years has largely been dominated by the works of SANAA, Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami and their contemporaries. Their skillfully designed, ethereal white spaces and structures, have proved well suited to being exported in an increasingly visual culture. ''Communal Ecologies'', on the other hand, highlights an(...)
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Media coverage of Japanese architecture the past twenty years has largely been dominated by the works of SANAA, Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami and their contemporaries. Their skillfully designed, ethereal white spaces and structures, have proved well suited to being exported in an increasingly visual culture. ''Communal Ecologies'', on the other hand, highlights an(...)
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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December 2025
December 2025
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Communal Ecologies: Conversations with Young Japanese Architects
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Media coverage of Japanese architecture the past twenty years has largely been dominated by the works of SANAA, Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami and their contemporaries. Their skillfully designed, ethereal white spaces and structures, have proved well suited to being exported in an increasingly visual culture. ''Communal Ecologies'', on the other hand, highlights an emerging generation of young architects pursuing a very different vision. They strive for an architecture that is rougher, more dynamic, and deeply rooted in social and ecological engagement. With a growing interest in community and network building, and a reevaluation of architecture’s connection to nature, they are developing critical methodologies for practice, and are reimagining the role of the architect in the process. Faced with a lack of opportunities in traditional housing design due to Japan’s economic decline, alongside a heightened awareness of ecological challenges brought on by frequent natural disasters, this generation of architects are crafting innovative strategies to engage with the existing housing stock and address challenges related to sustainability, reuse and transformation.
Communal Ecologies: Conversations with Young Japanese Architects
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Media coverage of Japanese architecture the past twenty years has largely been dominated by the works of SANAA, Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami and their contemporaries. Their skillfully designed, ethereal white spaces and structures, have proved well suited to being exported in an increasingly visual culture. ''Communal Ecologies'', on the other hand, highlights an emerging generation of young architects pursuing a very different vision. They strive for an architecture that is rougher, more dynamic, and deeply rooted in social and ecological engagement. With a growing interest in community and network building, and a reevaluation of architecture’s connection to nature, they are developing critical methodologies for practice, and are reimagining the role of the architect in the process. Faced with a lack of opportunities in traditional housing design due to Japan’s economic decline, alongside a heightened awareness of ecological challenges brought on by frequent natural disasters, this generation of architects are crafting innovative strategies to engage with the existing housing stock and address challenges related to sustainability, reuse and transformation.
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December 2025
December 2025
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Seoul scenarios
Seoul scenarios
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This book was produced in conjunction with the 22nd space prize for international students in architecture design, juried by MVRDV.
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This book was produced in conjunction with the 22nd space prize for international students in architecture design, juried by MVRDV.
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Seoul scenarios
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This book was produced in conjunction with the 22nd space prize for international students in architecture design, juried by MVRDV.
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This book was produced in conjunction with the 22nd space prize for international students in architecture design, juried by MVRDV.
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January 1900, Seoul
January 1900, Seoul
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
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New architecture in China
New architecture in China
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This publication describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding new buildings throughout China, none completed earlier than the turn of the new millennium and some still under construction. Project-by-project entries cover every building type, from private houses and apartments to museums and art galleries; from theatres and opera houses to schools and colleges; from(...)
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This publication describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding new buildings throughout China, none completed earlier than the turn of the new millennium and some still under construction. Project-by-project entries cover every building type, from private houses and apartments to museums and art galleries; from theatres and opera houses to schools and colleges; from(...)
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New architecture in China
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This publication describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding new buildings throughout China, none completed earlier than the turn of the new millennium and some still under construction. Project-by-project entries cover every building type, from private houses and apartments to museums and art galleries; from theatres and opera houses to schools and colleges; from shops and hotels to sports arenas and exhibition halls. Internationally acclaimed architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Kisho Kurokawa, Paul Andreu, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Riken Yamamoto, I.M. Pei, Steven Holl and many others are featured alongside smaller, emerging and more local practices.
New architecture in China
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This publication describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding new buildings throughout China, none completed earlier than the turn of the new millennium and some still under construction. Project-by-project entries cover every building type, from private houses and apartments to museums and art galleries; from theatres and opera houses to schools and colleges; from shops and hotels to sports arenas and exhibition halls. Internationally acclaimed architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Kisho Kurokawa, Paul Andreu, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Riken Yamamoto, I.M. Pei, Steven Holl and many others are featured alongside smaller, emerging and more local practices.
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September 2009, London
September 2009, London
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Japan : dwelling houses
Japan : dwelling houses
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A love letter to Japan’s traditional, handmade wooden houses. In this book, author and modernist architectural historian Werner Blaser pays homage to the classical Japanese dwellings of the 15th to 18th centuries. These simple but elegant structures stand today as beacons of tranquility and craftsmanship in a fragmented, throw-away world. No religious shrines or martial(...)
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A love letter to Japan’s traditional, handmade wooden houses. In this book, author and modernist architectural historian Werner Blaser pays homage to the classical Japanese dwellings of the 15th to 18th centuries. These simple but elegant structures stand today as beacons of tranquility and craftsmanship in a fragmented, throw-away world. No religious shrines or martial(...)
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Japan : dwelling houses
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A love letter to Japan’s traditional, handmade wooden houses. In this book, author and modernist architectural historian Werner Blaser pays homage to the classical Japanese dwellings of the 15th to 18th centuries. These simple but elegant structures stand today as beacons of tranquility and craftsmanship in a fragmented, throw-away world. No religious shrines or martial castles here, just homes full of light, space and serenity that show how subtly man and nature can live together.
Japan : dwelling houses
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A love letter to Japan’s traditional, handmade wooden houses. In this book, author and modernist architectural historian Werner Blaser pays homage to the classical Japanese dwellings of the 15th to 18th centuries. These simple but elegant structures stand today as beacons of tranquility and craftsmanship in a fragmented, throw-away world. No religious shrines or martial castles here, just homes full of light, space and serenity that show how subtly man and nature can live together.
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June 2005, Zurich
June 2005, Zurich
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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This incisive look at the historical, social, and economic forces that have shaped China's modern architecture analyzes the country's struggle to define its own architectural aesthetics. Since the early 1980s, when China opened its doors to international trade and tourism, the country's economy has expanded at an incredible rate. Today, China is poised to be a testing(...)
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This incisive look at the historical, social, and economic forces that have shaped China's modern architecture analyzes the country's struggle to define its own architectural aesthetics. Since the early 1980s, when China opened its doors to international trade and tourism, the country's economy has expanded at an incredible rate. Today, China is poised to be a testing(...)
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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January 1900, Munich / Berlin /London / New York
January 1900, Munich / Berlin /London / New York
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China's new dawn : an architectural transformation
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This incisive look at the historical, social, and economic forces that have shaped China's modern architecture analyzes the country's struggle to define its own architectural aesthetics. Since the early 1980s, when China opened its doors to international trade and tourism, the country's economy has expanded at an incredible rate. Today, China is poised to be a testing ground for the world's most innovative designers and engineers. Layla Dawson's groundbreaking survey of architectural currents in China lays out not only the historical events that have brought the country to this unique position, but explores the challenges inherent in opening up the country to outside forces and ideas. She examines projects by Chinese and non-Chinese architects, including Zaha Hadid's Soho City masterplan, Rem Koolhaas's CCTV Headquarters, Norman Foster's Shanghai Tower and plans for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. As Dawson demonstrates how conflicting architectural philosophies are visible in China's newly rising skyline, she takes an unblinking look at the liabilities China faces by opening itself up to foreign influence.
China's new dawn : an architectural transformation
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This incisive look at the historical, social, and economic forces that have shaped China's modern architecture analyzes the country's struggle to define its own architectural aesthetics. Since the early 1980s, when China opened its doors to international trade and tourism, the country's economy has expanded at an incredible rate. Today, China is poised to be a testing ground for the world's most innovative designers and engineers. Layla Dawson's groundbreaking survey of architectural currents in China lays out not only the historical events that have brought the country to this unique position, but explores the challenges inherent in opening up the country to outside forces and ideas. She examines projects by Chinese and non-Chinese architects, including Zaha Hadid's Soho City masterplan, Rem Koolhaas's CCTV Headquarters, Norman Foster's Shanghai Tower and plans for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. As Dawson demonstrates how conflicting architectural philosophies are visible in China's newly rising skyline, she takes an unblinking look at the liabilities China faces by opening itself up to foreign influence.
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January 1900, Munich / Berlin /London / New York
January 1900, Munich / Berlin /London / New York
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
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An investigation into Shanghai’s rise from peripheral port to urban center. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan(...)
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An investigation into Shanghai’s rise from peripheral port to urban center. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan(...)
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Shanghai and the edges of empires
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An investigation into Shanghai’s rise from peripheral port to urban center. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simultaneously appropriating and resisting imposing forces, Shanghai opened itself to unruly, subversive practices, becoming a crucible of creativity and modernism. Calling into question conventional ways of conceptualizing modernity, colonialism, and intercultural relations, Meng Yue examines such cultural practices as the work of the commercial press, street theater, and literary arts, and shows that what appear to be minor cultural changes often signal the presence of larger political and economic developments. Engaging theories of modernity and postcolonial and global cultural studies, Meng Yue reveals the paradoxical interdependence between imperial and imperialist histories and the retranslation of culture that characterized the most notable result of China’s urban relocation—the emergence of the international city of Shanghai.
Shanghai and the edges of empires
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An investigation into Shanghai’s rise from peripheral port to urban center. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simultaneously appropriating and resisting imposing forces, Shanghai opened itself to unruly, subversive practices, becoming a crucible of creativity and modernism. Calling into question conventional ways of conceptualizing modernity, colonialism, and intercultural relations, Meng Yue examines such cultural practices as the work of the commercial press, street theater, and literary arts, and shows that what appear to be minor cultural changes often signal the presence of larger political and economic developments. Engaging theories of modernity and postcolonial and global cultural studies, Meng Yue reveals the paradoxical interdependence between imperial and imperialist histories and the retranslation of culture that characterized the most notable result of China’s urban relocation—the emergence of the international city of Shanghai.
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January 2006, Minneapolis
January 2006, Minneapolis
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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This May 2005 Special Issue of a+u features 70 sites in Beijing & 89 in Shanghai, each accompanied by a descriptive paragraph and site photographs. In some cases, plans or elevations are included. The buildings listed in the guide include modern and contemporary architecture dating from approximately 1900 to the present.
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This May 2005 Special Issue of a+u features 70 sites in Beijing & 89 in Shanghai, each accompanied by a descriptive paragraph and site photographs. In some cases, plans or elevations are included. The buildings listed in the guide include modern and contemporary architecture dating from approximately 1900 to the present.
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Beijing/Shanghai architecture guide, a+ u May 2005 special issue
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This May 2005 Special Issue of a+u features 70 sites in Beijing & 89 in Shanghai, each accompanied by a descriptive paragraph and site photographs. In some cases, plans or elevations are included. The buildings listed in the guide include modern and contemporary architecture dating from approximately 1900 to the present.
Beijing/Shanghai architecture guide, a+ u May 2005 special issue
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This May 2005 Special Issue of a+u features 70 sites in Beijing & 89 in Shanghai, each accompanied by a descriptive paragraph and site photographs. In some cases, plans or elevations are included. The buildings listed in the guide include modern and contemporary architecture dating from approximately 1900 to the present.
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May 2005, Tokyo
May 2005, Tokyo
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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The architecture biennal Beijing 2004 -ABB2004- is an historic event in the history of Chinese architecture. It is the first ever architecture biennal to be held in China, and it occurs at a very special moment in history. For not only is China opening up to the influence of world architecture as never before, but the city of Beijing is preparing itself to become a(...)
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The architecture biennal Beijing 2004 -ABB2004- is an historic event in the history of Chinese architecture. It is the first ever architecture biennal to be held in China, and it occurs at a very special moment in history. For not only is China opening up to the influence of world architecture as never before, but the city of Beijing is preparing itself to become a(...)
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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March 2005, New York
March 2005, New York
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Fast forward, hot spots, brain cells : architecture biennal Beijing, 2004
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The architecture biennal Beijing 2004 -ABB2004- is an historic event in the history of Chinese architecture. It is the first ever architecture biennal to be held in China, and it occurs at a very special moment in history. For not only is China opening up to the influence of world architecture as never before, but the city of Beijing is preparing itself to become a world stage for the 2008 Olympics, an event which will endow the city with a rich array of new buildings, designed by some of the leading architects in the world.
Fast forward, hot spots, brain cells : architecture biennal Beijing, 2004
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The architecture biennal Beijing 2004 -ABB2004- is an historic event in the history of Chinese architecture. It is the first ever architecture biennal to be held in China, and it occurs at a very special moment in history. For not only is China opening up to the influence of world architecture as never before, but the city of Beijing is preparing itself to become a world stage for the 2008 Olympics, an event which will endow the city with a rich array of new buildings, designed by some of the leading architects in the world.
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March 2005, New York
March 2005, New York
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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HK Lab 2 picks up where HK Lab left off, and extends it. It brings together artists projects and a number of theoretical and critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior spaces. The changing nature of urban experience and inhabitation calls for new critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. It is perhaps time to move on and explore the concept of the city and(...)
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HK Lab 2 picks up where HK Lab left off, and extends it. It brings together artists projects and a number of theoretical and critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior spaces. The changing nature of urban experience and inhabitation calls for new critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. It is perhaps time to move on and explore the concept of the city and(...)
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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April 2005, Hong Kong
April 2005, Hong Kong
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HK Lab 2
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HK Lab 2 picks up where HK Lab left off, and extends it. It brings together artists projects and a number of theoretical and critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior spaces. The changing nature of urban experience and inhabitation calls for new critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. It is perhaps time to move on and explore the concept of the city and its urban practices, not from visual, panoptic constructions, but from opaque, poetic, lived and embodied experiences of the city.
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HK Lab 2 picks up where HK Lab left off, and extends it. It brings together artists projects and a number of theoretical and critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior spaces. The changing nature of urban experience and inhabitation calls for new critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. It is perhaps time to move on and explore the concept of the city and its urban practices, not from visual, panoptic constructions, but from opaque, poetic, lived and embodied experiences of the city.
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April 2005, Hong Kong
April 2005, Hong Kong
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This inaugural volume in the series 'Spatial habitus : making and meaning in Asia's vernacualr architecture' contains more than 500 illustrations, most in color, and includes a number of rare drawings that demonstrate the richness of domestic architecture and living patterns in traditional and contemporary China. Through its exploration of how Chinese families are(...)
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This inaugural volume in the series 'Spatial habitus : making and meaning in Asia's vernacualr architecture' contains more than 500 illustrations, most in color, and includes a number of rare drawings that demonstrate the richness of domestic architecture and living patterns in traditional and contemporary China. Through its exploration of how Chinese families are(...)
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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January 1900, Honolulu, New York
January 1900, Honolulu, New York
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House, home, family : living and being Chinese
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This inaugural volume in the series 'Spatial habitus : making and meaning in Asia's vernacualr architecture' contains more than 500 illustrations, most in color, and includes a number of rare drawings that demonstrate the richness of domestic architecture and living patterns in traditional and contemporary China. Through its exploration of how Chinese families are organized and why Chinese construct thier living spaces the way they do, this book yields a deep and wide understanding of what it means to live and be Chinese.
House, home, family : living and being Chinese
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This inaugural volume in the series 'Spatial habitus : making and meaning in Asia's vernacualr architecture' contains more than 500 illustrations, most in color, and includes a number of rare drawings that demonstrate the richness of domestic architecture and living patterns in traditional and contemporary China. Through its exploration of how Chinese families are organized and why Chinese construct thier living spaces the way they do, this book yields a deep and wide understanding of what it means to live and be Chinese.
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January 1900, Honolulu, New York
January 1900, Honolulu, New York
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
