Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
(Pub. Date: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824895563)
This is the first English-language study devoted to dougong, the block-bracket cluster widely regarded as the epitome of traditional Chinese architecture. For almost two millennia, dougong have been central to the multipartite frame structure of woo...More info...
Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
(Pub. Date: 30-Mar-2021, Hardback, Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824884604)
Outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. The book examines representations of utopia that developed in Bangkok - as expressed in built forms as well...More info...
Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
(Pub. Date: 30-Oct-2019, Hardback, Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824877316)
Timber-framed architecture has long been viewed as an embodiment of Chinese civilization, a hierarchic society ruled by Confucian orthodoxy. Throughout its history, Chinese architectural design was closely regulated by court-enforced building code...More info...
Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
(Pub. Date: 30-Oct-2018, Hardback, Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824873752)
Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intriguing question in Modern Kyoto, a comprehensive study of the architectural and urban projects carried out in the old capital following Empe...More info...
Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
(Pub. Date: 30-Jul-2016, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824867881)
Kyoto was Japans political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also among the worlds largest cities and, as the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, it was a...More info...
Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
(Pub. Date: 31-Mar-2016, Hardback, Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824853709)
The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) in Qufu is the definitive monument to the worlds greatest sage. From its humble origins deep in Chinas past, the home of Confucius grew in size and stature under the auspices of almost every major dynasty un...More info...
Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
(Pub. Date: 31-Jul-2013, Hardback, Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824836283)
When the Chinese Nationalist Party nominally reunified the country in 1928, Chiang Kai-shek and other party leaders insisted that Nanjing was better suited than Beijing to serve as its capital. For the next decade, until the Japanese invasion in 1...More info...
Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
(Pub. Date: 28-Feb-2013, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824836061)
Bosker (senior technology editor, Huffington Post) offers an interesting look at Chinas unusual attraction for creating copies of not only famous western landmarks, but also faithful historical reproductions of entire communities incorporated into C...More info...
Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
(Pub. Date: 31-May-2012, Hardback, Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824833633)
A new kind of analysis of the most famous work in the history of Chinese architecture, Jiren Fengs book will be important for students of Chinese architecture, and useful for readers in pre-modern Chinese history, craft, and literature. The author i...More info...
