Item Number: 109431 Title: Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts Author: Cody, Jeffrey W. ; Nancy S. Steinhardt ; Tony Atkin (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780824834562 Description: Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press in association with Hong Kong Unviersity Press, 2011. 25cm., pbk., pp., 208 illus., 60 in color. Publisher's summary : In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scholarships to train as architects at American universities whose design curricula were dominated by Beaux-Arts methods. Upon their return home in the 1920s and 1930s, these graduates began to practice architecture and create China’s first architectural schools, often transferring a version of what they had learned in the U.S. to Chinese situations. Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts examines the coalescing of the two major architectural systems, placing significant shifts in architectural theory and practice in China within relevant, contemporary, cultural, and educational contexts. Major scholars from around the world analyze and synthesize these crucial events to shed light on the dramatic architectural and urban changes occurring in China today—many of which have global ramifications. Jeffrey W. Cody is senior project specialist in the Education Department at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. Nancy S. Steinhardt is professor of East Asian art and curator of Chinese art at the University of Pennsylvania. Tony Atkin, FAIA, is adjunct associate professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design and a principal of Atkin Olshin Schade Architects in Philadelphia and Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia’s Architecture. ^Available January 2011^) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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