Chinese Architecture
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This book comprises a comprehensive and authoritative study of Chinese architecture from Neolithic times through the late nineteenth century. Six of China's leading architectural historians have joined with a Western scholar to write this book, the first in-depth, collaborative history of Chinese architecture in more than fifty years. Drawing on recent discoveries and(...)
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December 2002, New Haven and London
Chinese Architecture
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This book comprises a comprehensive and authoritative study of Chinese architecture from Neolithic times through the late nineteenth century. Six of China's leading architectural historians have joined with a Western scholar to write this book, the first in-depth, collaborative history of Chinese architecture in more than fifty years. Drawing on recent discoveries and current scholarly work inside China, this volume recounts the story of China's architectural achievements, the forms they took, and the historical, political, cultural, and social factors that shaped them. Each chapter includes sections on cities, palatial architecture, religious architecture, tombs, and gardens as well as discussions of bridges, walls, fortifications, academies, and architectural writings. The book is enhanced with color plates and line drawings, explanatory maps and charts, and an index that includes Chinese terms.
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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
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
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C'est un voyage de la Chine à la méditerranée, sur les routes de la soie, du thé, du jade, des épices, de la laine, de l'or et des chevaux, aux confins de la Chine, de l'Asie Centrale et de l'Inde. Sur ces routes, traversant steppes, montagnes et déserts, des caravanes de chameaux et de yacks cheminèrent durant des siècles bijoux, porcelaine, thé et épices jusqu'aux(...)
Nomades et caravanes d'orient sure les routes de la soie
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C'est un voyage de la Chine à la méditerranée, sur les routes de la soie, du thé, du jade, des épices, de la laine, de l'or et des chevaux, aux confins de la Chine, de l'Asie Centrale et de l'Inde. Sur ces routes, traversant steppes, montagnes et déserts, des caravanes de chameaux et de yacks cheminèrent durant des siècles bijoux, porcelaine, thé et épices jusqu'aux fabuleux bazars d'Asie centrale comme ceux de Kachgar, de Boukhara et de Samarkand. C'est aussi une plongée dans l'histoire et les cultures, à travers les religions, les modes de vie, les évolutions des pays d'Asie Centrale, sur les traces des grands explorateurs, aventuriers mandatés par des souverains lointains ou des scientifiques et archéologues passionnés. C'est, enfin et surtout, une rencontre avec les populations d'Asie Centrale, bergers tadjiks, nomades Mongols, Kazakhs, Kirghizes, qui vivent sous la yourte avec leurs troupeaux de yacks, de chèvres et de moutons, dans un cadre majestueux : montagnes enneigées de l'Altaï, du Pamir et du Karakorum, steppes immenses et déserts gigantesques.
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Two squares
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Through a series of essays by urban historians and designers, Two Squares examines the changing role of public space in the cities of Beirut and Istanbul as they undergo major urban redevelopment. The study of Beirut looks at the redesign of Martyrs' Square, the city's primary public space, in the aftermath of the civil war and the ongoing reconstruction efforts to(...)
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Through a series of essays by urban historians and designers, Two Squares examines the changing role of public space in the cities of Beirut and Istanbul as they undergo major urban redevelopment. The study of Beirut looks at the redesign of Martyrs' Square, the city's primary public space, in the aftermath of the civil war and the ongoing reconstruction efforts to rebuild the center. In Istanbul, the focus is on Sirkeci Square, one of the main intermodal hubs in the historic peninsula, as it readies itself to host a new station for the first under-Bosphorus train tunnel. The two urban transformations are taken as opportunities to examine the nature of public space in the 21st-century city, the history and evolution of public life in Beirut and Istanbul, and the possibilities of using these vital transportation nodes as opportunities for new landscape, urban, and architectural design strategies. The book also includes a series of hypothetical design projects for these two squares.
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Le sens de l'espace au japon, c'est le déploiement du monde japonais, de la terre d'un certain archipel à la manière dont le moi s'y définit dans son rapport avec les choses et avec autrui. C'est l'organisation des parcours dans un jardin-promenade, l'agencement des pièces dans l'ancien palais du shôgun à Edo, mais aussi certains principes managériaux des grandes(...)
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May 2004, Paris
Le sens de l'espace au Japon : vivre, penser, bâtir
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Le sens de l'espace au japon, c'est le déploiement du monde japonais, de la terre d'un certain archipel à la manière dont le moi s'y définit dans son rapport avec les choses et avec autrui. C'est l'organisation des parcours dans un jardin-promenade, l'agencement des pièces dans l'ancien palais du shôgun à Edo, mais aussi certains principes managériaux des grandes entreprises, l'apparente absence du sujet dans certains poèmes, les repères situationnels de la morale ordinaire, et jusqu'à la remise en cause au XXe siècle, par la " logique du lieu " nishidienne, du principe d'identité qui fonda l'inférence rationnelle chez Aristote. En effet, chaque société crée son espace dans un sens qui lui est propre, et qu'analogiquement elle déploie dans tous les domaines de son existence ; mais en outre, la spatialité japonaise a ceci de particulier qu'elle a construit un paradigme existentiel : un paradigme de la vie même, à l'opposé du mécanicisme de la modernité occidentale. On en tire ici les leçons pour une architecture naturelle, en prise concrète avec les sens de notre corps dans le paysage.
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Ce livre présente l'examen d'un siècle et demi de théorie architecturale japonaise. Les textes et discours théoriques choisis sont ceux qui sont les plus représentatifs des réflexions du monde architectural et de la création au Japon de la fin du XIXe à la fin du XXe siècle. Il montre l'évolution des tendances pour essayer de mettre en évidence la part du milieu.
Anthologie critique de la theorie japonaise
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Ce livre présente l'examen d'un siècle et demi de théorie architecturale japonaise. Les textes et discours théoriques choisis sont ceux qui sont les plus représentatifs des réflexions du monde architectural et de la création au Japon de la fin du XIXe à la fin du XXe siècle. Il montre l'évolution des tendances pour essayer de mettre en évidence la part du milieu.
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October 2004, Bruxelles
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At no time in recent history have architecture, urban planning, rehabilitation and reconstruction been as important to the Islamic World as they are today. Since 1977, the triennial Aga Khan Award has celebrated outstanding contributions to architectural design, logical construction and the revivification of hisoric cities. In this, the ninth Award cycle, the jury(...)
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April 2005, London
Architecture and polyphony : building in the Islamic world today - the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the ninth award cycle
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At no time in recent history have architecture, urban planning, rehabilitation and reconstruction been as important to the Islamic World as they are today. Since 1977, the triennial Aga Khan Award has celebrated outstanding contributions to architectural design, logical construction and the revivification of hisoric cities. In this, the ninth Award cycle, the jury has selected seven projects to reflect the rich diversity of Muslim architecture today : Biblioteca Alexandrina - Alexandria, Egypt; Gando Primary School - Gando, Burkina Faso; Sandbag Shelter Prototypes - Various locations; Restoration of Al-Abbas Mosque - Asnaf, Yemen; Old City of Jerusalem Revitalization Program - Old City, Jerusalem; B2 House - Ayvacik, Turkey; Petronus Towers - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Alors que la notion de patrimoine était encore peu partagée en métropole, dès 1830 de nombreux architectes allèrent inventorier les richesses de l'Algérie. Deux fonds importants relatifs à ces campagnes dormaient depuis dans des bibliothèques françaises: de nombreux relevés et dessins aquarellés à la Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine et sept albums de(...)
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January 1900, Paris
L'Algérie et son patrimoine : dessins français du XIXe siècle
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Alors que la notion de patrimoine était encore peu partagée en métropole, dès 1830 de nombreux architectes allèrent inventorier les richesses de l'Algérie. Deux fonds importants relatifs à ces campagnes dormaient depuis dans des bibliothèques françaises: de nombreux relevés et dessins aquarellés à la Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine et sept albums de l'architecte Delamarre à la Sorbonne. C'est à partir de leur redécouverte que les auteurs du présent ouvrage, eux-mêmes architectes et enseignants originaires d'Algérie, resituent cette autre dimension du fait colonial et soulignent la naissance d'une conscience patrimoniale: de l'inédit pour cette année de l'Algérie en France.
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The temple of Jerusalem
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The Temple has become the world's most potent symbol of the human search for an lost ideal, an image of greatness. Goldhill travels across cultural and temporal boundaries to convey the full extent of its impact on religious, artistic, and scholarly imaginations.
The temple of Jerusalem
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The Temple has become the world's most potent symbol of the human search for an lost ideal, an image of greatness. Goldhill travels across cultural and temporal boundaries to convey the full extent of its impact on religious, artistic, and scholarly imaginations.
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House and home in modern Japan : architecture, domestic space, and bourgeois culture, 1880-1930
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A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artefact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as artefact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era. As Japan modernized, the principles that had traditionally(...)
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September 2005, Cambridge, Massachusetts
House and home in modern Japan : architecture, domestic space, and bourgeois culture, 1880-1930
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A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artefact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as artefact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era. As Japan modernized, the principles that had traditionally related house and family began to break down. Even where the traditional class markers surrounding the house persisted, they became vessels for new meanings, as housing was resituated in a new nexus of relations. The house as artefact and the artefacts it housed were affected in turn. The construction and ornament of houses ceased to be stable indications of their occupants' social status, the home became a means of personal expression, and the act of dwelling was reconceived in terms of consumption. Amid the breakdown of inherited meanings and the fluidity of modern society, not only did the increased diversity of commodities lead to material elaboration of dwellings, but home itself became an object of special attention, its importance emphasized in writing, invoked in politics, and articulated in architectural design. The aim of this book is to show the features of this culture of the home as it took shape in Japan.
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