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L'art indien

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Dans cet ouvrage, l'exposé didactique appuyé de nombreux documents iconographiques (peintures, sculptures, architectures, plans) passe en revue l'art de ce vaste sous-continent qu'est l'Inde, traversé par deux grandes religions : le bouddhisme et l'hindouisme

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The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House

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This book uncovers the concealed concepts at work in Japanese living space, and brings compelling insights and long-needed clairity to the subject.

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The Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates

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The New Cambridge History of India, volume I.7

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Temple and teahouse in Japan

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After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Bläser published his landmark book on Classical Japanese architecture. His studies of 17th-18th-century wooden buildings document minimalist, grid-based structures using stark black-and-white photographs, some color photographs and numerous line drawings. His book, highly prized in terms of design and content, contributed significantly to introducing Japanese aesthetics to Western architecture, art and graphics. Mies van der Rohe, for example, gave it to many of his friends. The reprint is enriched by a text on the history of the book by Christian Blaser, Werner Blaser's son, a contribution by Inge Andritz on Mies van der Rohe and Japanese architecture, and a personal afterword by Tadao Ando.

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Chinese architecture

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Ancient Chinese architecture is not only a source of reference for modern Chinese design, it has also had an international influence and attracted global attention. Moreover, architectural remains in China reveal much about the history of this ancient civilisation. The palaces, gardens, temples, tombs and dwellings of the Chinese people reflect, for example, the military achievements of the Qin emperor, the spirit of the Tang Dynasty, the palace intrigues of the Ming Dynasty, the diversity of Chinese culture through the ages and the skill of countless generations of craftsmen and labourers. This publication provides an accessible, illustrated introduction to this essential part of China's cultural heritage.

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Viêtnam : à travers l'architecture coloniale

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A la faveur des échanges renoués, les Occidentaux redécouvrent ce pays secoué par trente ans de guerre. Les apports architecturaux de la période coloniale demeurent visibles et contribuent toujours à façonner le visage des cités actuelles. Léonard de Selva, photographe, et Arnauld Le Brusq, historien de l''art, proposent un itinéraire du sud au nord du Viêtnam, de Hô Chi Minh-Ville - l''ancien Saigon - à Hanoi, en passant par Dalat, Nha Trang, Danang - anciennement Tourane - et Huê, autant de villes abordées de manière vivante sous l''angle de l'histoire urbaine et architecturale.

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Traditional Japanese architecture: An exploration of elements and forms

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In Traditional Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores the development, construction, function and symbolism inherent in historic architectural elements. From roofs, walls and floors to door pulls and kettle hangers, this book situates these elements firmly within the natural environment and traditional culture of Japan.

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Just enough: lessons in living green from traditional Japan

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This publication is a book of stories, depictions of vanished ways of life told from the point of view of a contemporary observer. The stories tell how people lived in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo Period, when traditional technology and culture were at the peak of development and realization, just before the country opened itself to the West and joined the ranks of the industrialized nations. They tell of people overcoming many of the identical problems that confront us today--issues of energy, water, materials, food and population--and forging a society that was conservation-minded, waste-free, well-housed, well-fed and economically robust.

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M8 in China: contemporary chinese architects

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M8 in China showcases a range of work by eight private Chinese architectural offices whose energetic output reveals some fascinating new connections between Eastern tradition and the Western avant garde. Whether it is a museum with a facade made of bamboo-clad concrete or a tea-house sited at the foot of a mountain, all 24 selected projects in this book are impressive evidence of the high quality of current architectural practice in China.

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The appearances of memory : mnemonic practices of architecture and urban form in Indonesia

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In this publication, the Indonesian architectural and urban historian Abidin Kusno explores the connections between the built environment and political consciousness in Indonesia during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing primarily on Jakarta, he describes how perceptions of the past, anxieties about the rapid pace of change in the present, and hopes for the future have been embodied in architecture and urban space at different historical moments. He argues that the built environment serves as a reminder of the practices of the past and an instantiation of the desire to remake oneself within, as well as beyond, one’s particular time and place. Addressing developments in Indonesia since the fall of President Suharto’s regime in 1998, Kusno delves into such topics as the domestication of traumatic violence and the restoration of order in the urban space, the intense interest in urban history in contemporary Indonesia, and the implications of "superblocks", large urban complexes consisting of residences, offices, shops, and entertainment venues. Moving farther back in time, he examines how Indonesian architects reinvented colonial architectural styles to challenge the political culture of the state, how colonial structures such as railway and commercial buildings created a new, politically charged cognitive map of cities in Java in the early twentieth century, and how the Dutch, in attempting to quell dissent, imposed a distinctive urban visual order in the 1930s. Finally, the present and the past meet in his long-term considerations of how Java has responded to the global flow of Islamic architecture, and how the meanings of Indonesian gatehouses have changed and persisted over time.