Bangkok Utopia

Lawrence Chua

• Hardcover | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• "Utopia" is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling le... Lees meer

Traces of the Sage

James A Flath

• Hardcover | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) in Qufu is the definitive monument to the world's greatest sage. From its humble origins deep in China's past, t... Lees meer

Kyoto

Matthew Stavros

• Hardcover | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• Kyoto was Japan's political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it w... Lees meer

Diversity in the Great Unity

Lala Zuo

• Hardcover | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• Timber-framed architecture has long been viewed as an embodiment of Chinese civilization, a hierarchic society ruled by Confucian orthodoxy. Throughou... Lees meer

Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

• Hardcover | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of ... Lees meer

Kyoto

Matthew Stavros

• Paperback | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• Kyoto was Japan's political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it w... Lees meer

Original Copies

Bianca Bosker

• Paperback | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. ... Lees meer

China's Contested Capital

Charles D Musgrove

• Hardcover | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• When the Chinese Nationalist Party nominally reunified the country in 1928, Chiang Kai-shek and other party leaders insisted that Nanjing was better s... Lees meer

Modern Kyoto

Alice Y Tseng

• Hardcover | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intriguing question in Modern Kyoto, a comprehensive s... Lees meer

Chinese Architecture and Metaphor

Jiren Feng

• Hardcover | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• Investigating the historical tradition of Chinese architectural writing from antiquity to the twelfth century, Chinese Architecture and Metaphor revea... Lees meer

Architecturalized Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• This collection explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons and symbols in different historical settings. It grow... Lees meer

Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea

Inha Jung

• Hardcover | Engels | Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• Although modernization in Korea started more than a century later than in the West, it has worked as a prominent ideology throughout the past century-... Lees meer