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137 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
New York : Oxford University Press, 1975.
Five architects : Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier.
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137 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1975.
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414 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Copenhagen, Denmark : Strandberg Publishing A/S, 2020, ©2020
Connectedness : an incomplete encyclopedia of the Anthropocene / edited by Marianne Krogh.
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414 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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Copenhagen, Denmark : Strandberg Publishing A/S, 2020, ©2020
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An architectural view of one of the world's most dynamic and exciting cities. Shanghai's explosive development since the early 1990s has provided students and fans of architecture with myriad examples of superlatives: from the world's tallest buildings to its longest bridges. As timely as it is comprehensive, this collection of essays confronts the broader concerns of(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
November 2004, Munich
Shanghai : architecture & urbanism for modern China
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An architectural view of one of the world's most dynamic and exciting cities. Shanghai's explosive development since the early 1990s has provided students and fans of architecture with myriad examples of superlatives: from the world's tallest buildings to its longest bridges. As timely as it is comprehensive, this collection of essays confronts the broader concerns of Shanghai's role as a harbinger of China's future and a global testing ground. The essays cover the socio-political, cultural, and historic aspects of the city as well as offer more pointed topical analyses of urban design, preservation, and the developments of the city's waterfronts. Throughout the book, color photographs and illustrations examine thirty ongoing and completed projects. The resulting overview presents a vibrant city of tension and contradiction, one that both mirrors and drives China's struggle to break free from economic constraints while adhering to its political ideals.
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November 2004, Munich
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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338 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Milan : Electa Architecture ; [England?] : Distributed by Phaidon Press, 2007.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill : SOM since 1936 / Nicholas Adams.
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338 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Milan : Electa Architecture ; [England?] : Distributed by Phaidon Press, 2007.
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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(...)
April 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
Architectural encounters with essence and form in modern China
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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.” The book opens with a discussion of cultural developments in China in response to the forced opening to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to reform the Qing dynasty, and the Nationalist and Communist regimes. It then considers the return of overseas-educated Chinese architects and foreign influences on Chinese architecture, four architectural orientations toward tradition and modernity in the 1920s and 1930s, and the controversy over the use of “big roofs” and other sinicizing aspects of Chinese architecture in the 1950s. The book then moves to the hard economic conditions of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, when architecture was almost abandoned, and the beginning of reform and opening up to the outside world in the late 1970s and 1980s. Finally, it looks at the present socialist market economy and Chinese architecture during the still incomplete process of modernization. It closes with a prognosis for the future.
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This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created. Comparisons with historical models and critical appraisals based on the authors' unique standing give information on the pros and cons of(...)
Urban intensities: contemporary housing types and territories
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This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created. Comparisons with historical models and critical appraisals based on the authors' unique standing give information on the pros and cons of major types of housing, their pitfalls and successful examples.
Collective Housing
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xi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
New York : J. Wiley, ©1996.
The executive architect : transforming designers into leaders / John E. Harrigan, Paul R. Neel ; with contributions by Douglas H. Austin [and others].
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xi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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New York : J. Wiley, ©1996.
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224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
New York : Monacelli Press, ©2009.
Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1984-1996 / introduction by Detlef Mertins.
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224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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New York : Monacelli Press, ©2009.
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This book is an examination of the development of urban housing in China over the past 160 years. Illustrated and written by a team of Chinese and Western experts, it offers a broad overview of the developments in building construction and design
History until 1900, Asia
January 1900, Munich
Modern urban housing in China : 1840-2000
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This book is an examination of the development of urban housing in China over the past 160 years. Illustrated and written by a team of Chinese and Western experts, it offers a broad overview of the developments in building construction and design
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January 1900, Munich
History until 1900, Asia
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Rowe’s third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture and planning in China, with a focus on this development within the broader framework of nation-building. Episodes and periods interrogated in the book range from the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 to the proclamation of Xi Jinping’s ''China Dream'' 100 years later.(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
November 2022
Chinese modern: Episodes backwards and forwards in time
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Rowe’s third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture and planning in China, with a focus on this development within the broader framework of nation-building. Episodes and periods interrogated in the book range from the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 to the proclamation of Xi Jinping’s ''China Dream'' 100 years later. Episodes will be foregrounded by commentary about the general states of the nation and particularly by urban planning undertakings. Providing a wide-ranging survey of Chinese modern architecture that has a historic aspect to it, the book introduces the reader to a plethora of originative and influential buildings, momentous urban schemes as well as the architects and planners behind them.
Contemporary Asian Architecture