Designing the Rural: A Global Countryside in Flux (Architectural Design) August 15, 2016 by: Joshua Bolchover (Editor), John Lin (Editor), Christiane Lange (Editor) Publisher: Academy Press; 1st edition (August 15, 2016) Language: English Paperback: 136 pages ISBN-10: 1118951050 ISBN-13: 9781118951057 Book Description The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Es...
China Homegrown: Chinese Experimental Architecture Rebo (Architectural Design) 1st Edition by: Andong Lu (Editor), Pingping Dou (Editor) Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (December 10, 2018) Language: English Paperback: 144 pages ISBN-10: 1119375959 ISBN-13: 9781119375951 Book Description Today, architecture in China is at a watershed. Over the last decade, rapid urbanisation and the burgeoning economy tued the country into a playground for the world’s signature architects, making it possible to rea...
Rural Urban Framework: Transforming the Chinese Countryside by: Joshua Bolchover,John Lin,John (EDT) Lin,Joshua (EDT) Bolchover, (Author) Publisher: De Gruyter; 1st edition (October 31, 2013) Language: English Paperback: 192 pages ISBN-10: 3038214493 ISBN-13: 9783038214496 <!doctype html public “-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en”> While most attention is given to the booming mega-cities in China and the associated problems of over-population, the rural areas in China are be...
Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit by: Kim Dovey Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (June 2, 2016) Language: English Hardcover: 304 pages ISBN-10: 1472566955 ISBN-13: 9781472566959 Book Description Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism, architecture and spatial analysis. Relating abstrac...
Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000 June 24, 2008 by: Peter Eisenman ,Ariane Lourie,Stan Allen (Foreword) Publisher: Rizzoli; First Edition (June 24, 2008) Language: English Hardcover: 304 pages ISBN-10: 0847830489 ISBN-13: 9780847830480 Book Description Peter Eisenman, renowned for his own controversial and influential body of work, looks at ten leading architects of the twentieth century and their theoretical positions, technological innovations, and design contributions. Eisenman identifies a ...
Confucius’ Courtyard: Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China by: Xing Ruan Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts (18 Nov. 2021) Language: English Hardcover: 368 pages ISBN-10: 135021762X ISBN-13: 9781350217621 Book Description 阮昕：《春秋•院落——中国人的建筑、哲学和理想生活》(Confucius’ Courtyard: Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China) 本书讲述了院落作为如此非凡且经久不衰的建筑形制，如何成为理解中国社会和文化，乃至今日中国的关键。三千多年来，无论高居庙堂之上，还是身处市井之间，包括中国的艺术、哲学和治理的成就——中国人的生活无时无刻都离不开院落。本书通过建筑史、中国文化史和哲学史，探讨了中国人的世界观，并揭示了这种世界观与古时“院落”的概念密不可分。院落...
Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China (Urban and Industrial Environments) by: Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng Publisher: MIT Press (2 Jun. 2017) Language: English Hardcover: 472 pages ISBN-10: 026203591X ISBN-13: 9780262035910 Book Description How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space. Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and ...
China Underground Paperback – 5 Feb. 2009 by Zachary Mexico Publisher: Soft Skull Press (5 Feb. 2009) Language: English Paperback: 320 pages ISBN-10: 1593762232 ISBN-13: 9781593762230 Book Description Drawn by the streets humming with the energy of constant change, Zachary Mexico, who had spent two years in China, returned there in the summer of 2006 to conduct formal research on how the changing environment has affected the Chinese of his generation. This is an engaging firsthand account of a y...
The Monfort Plan: The New Architecture of Capitalism by: Pozuelo-Monfort, Jaime; Buchwalter, David Publisher: Wiley(2010/3/19) Edition: 1 Language: English ISBN-13: 9780470293638 e-ISBN-13: 9780470603970
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