This fascinating collection of essays, edited by Charlie Qiuli Xue and Guanghui Ding, focuses on the history and development of China’s cross-border practice of designing and constructing buildings in other countries, especially in the developing world such as Africa, a topic that has been long over...
By adopting the viewpoint of cultural transfer, we can put the trends of Chinese contemporary architecture in a longer historicalcontext. We observe a binary system that opposes China and the Occident, tradition and modernity. It characterizes a mode of thinkingbased on the reference of the Occident...
By adopting the viewpoint of cultural transfer, we can put the trends of Chinese contemporary architecture in a longer historicalcontext. We observe a binary system that opposes China and the Occident, tradition and modernity. It characterizes a mode of thinkingbased on the reference of the Occident...
This report was originally posted on the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University official website on May 19, 2017. Text by Daniela Pico Pérez; edited by Danny Abbasi. Original title: Examining differing perceptions of Chinese architecture. A workshop, ‘Mapping Architectural Criticism in China’, took pla...
Style is the key concept in the Western history of art. It was introduced in China with the method of arthistory during the modern period. In order to fi nd a new point of view on writing the history of Chinese architecture, we will take the style as an example and observe its historical sources and...
Style is the key concept in the Western history of art. It was introduced in China with the method of arthistory during the modern period. In order to fi nd a new point of view on writing the history of Chinese architecture, we will take the style as an example and observe its historical sources and...
Following the success of the "New approaches in Chinese garden history" conference in June 2015, Jan Woudstra of the department of Landscape (University of Sheffield, UK) is helping the Garden History Society to organise another conference on the theme of Gardens and Landscape history of China, to b...
"Basado en una investigaciónmultidisciplinaria sobre la huella ecológicade los alimentos, este artículo demuestra queel exponencial aumento de la refrigeraciónde las últimas décadas tiene varios efectosdañinos sobre el medioambiente: seconsume más energía, se emiten más gasesdañinos para la atmósfer...
Eng, Clarence. Colours and Contrast : Ceramic Traditions in Chinese Architecture. Leiden : Brill, 2015. 376 p. ISBN : 978-9-0042-7981-0 Ancient Chinese halls are celebrated for their majestic rooflines. Their finish and visual mass have evolved to meet the tastes of patrons and to signal the role of...
Graduate/Research Postgraduate Student Conference, University of Hong Kong, May 24-25, 2013 This conference will investigate and challenge the notion of “transformation” in Chinese architecture and urbanism over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dramatic physical changes in...
Xie-Fouques Lingqiong. Jeffrey W. Cody, Nancy S. Steinhardt, Tony Atkin (ed.), Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts, Honolulu : University of Hawai’i Press, 2011. In: Études chinoises, vol. 31, n°1,2012. pp. 165-169.
Cette thèse situe la culture du jardin du Jiangnan (souvent entendu en Occident par « le jardin du lettré ») dans la Chine impériale tardive, dans le cadre de recherches historiques qui s’intéressent plutôt à l’Homme qu’à l’objet, afin de mieux comprendre son fondement mental et philosophique, les l...
"El impacto del vertiginoso crecimiento de China en la configuración de las nuevas ciudades, que van sacrificando sus identidades originales para ponerse al servicio de las lógicas productivas, con su bagaje de destrucción, cambio e imitación, sirve para ejemplificar la emergencia de un nuevo refere...
In Chinese architecture, vaults are very scarce. Apart from tombs, bridges and city gates, the brick and stone barrel vault can be found in two types of buildings: the wuliang dian (“beamless hall”) built during the Ming dynasty and the yaodong houses of the Yellow earth tableland. Using the same pl...
"Consideraciones sobre la sustentabilidad son inevitables para el planeamiento urbano, a tal punto que hoy son herramientas de negociación en la mesa de promotores inmobiliarios y organismos reguladores: pero la mitigación está dando paso a otras figuras, más complejas y de alcances no calculados. L...
Chin Juliet. David G. Kohl, Chinese Architecture in the Straits Settlements and Western Malaya : Temples, Kongsis and Houses. In: Archipel, volume 33, 1987. p. 185.