Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts /

Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts / / Jeffrey W. Cody, Tony Atkin, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
VerfasserIn:
Cody, Jeffrey W.,
Atkin, Tony,
Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman,
MitwirkendeR:
Atkin, Tony,
Carroll, Peter J.,
Chang, Yung Ho,
Chao-Ching, Fu,
Chen, Zhao,
Cody, Jeffrey W.,
Fan, K. Sizheng,
Jie, Zhang,
Kuan, Seng,
Lai, Delin,
Ruan, Xing,
Rykwert, Joseph,
Steinhardt, Nancy S.,
Van Zanten, David,
Wagner, Rudolf G.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 208 illus., 60 in color
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Chinese Names and Other Clarifications
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Divergence to Convergence
  • 1. Chinese Architecture on the Eve of the Beaux-Arts
  • 2. Just What Was Beaux-Arts Architectural Composition?
  • Part II. Convergence to Influence
  • 3. Convergence to Influence: Introductory Perspectives
  • 4. Chinese Architecture Students at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s: Tradition, Exchange, and the Search for Modernity
  • 4. An Outline of Beaux-Arts Education in China: Transplantation, Localization, and Entrenchment
  • 5. A Classicist Architecture for Utopia: The Soviet Contacts
  • 6. Beaux-Arts Practice and Education by Chinese Architects in Taiwan
  • Part III. Influence to Paradigm
  • Influence to Paradigm: Introductory Perspectives
  • Yang Tingbao, Dong Dayou, and Liang Sicheng. Modern and Ancient
  • 7. Yang Tingbao, China’s Modern Architect in the Twentieth Century
  • 8. Between Beaux-Arts and Modernism. Dong Dayou and the Architecture of 1930s Shanghai
  • 9. Elevation or Façade: A Re-evaluation of Liang Sicheng’s Interpretation of Chinese Timber Architecture in the Light of Beaux-Arts Classicism
  • Lü Yanzhi, Zhang Kaiji, and Zhang Bo. Republican and Early Socialist Politics
  • 10. From Studio to Practice. Chinese and Non-Chinese Architects Working Together
  • 11. Ritual, Architecture, Politics, and Publicity during the Republic: Enshrining Sun Yat-sen
  • 12. The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Auditorium: A Preaching Space for Modern China
  • 13. Zhang vs. Zhang: Symmetry and Split: A Development in Chinese Architecture of the 1950s and 1960s
  • Chinese Cities. Beaux-Arts Plans and Post-Beaux-Arts Urbanism
  • 14. The Beaux-Arts in Another Register. Governmental Administrative and Civic Centers in City Plans of the Republican Era
  • 15. Chinese Urbanism beyond the Beaux-Arts
  • Afterword. The Four and the Five
  • Contributors
  • Index

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