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Architecturalized Asia
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Author : Vimalin Rujivacharakul
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Architecturalized Asia written by Vimalin Rujivacharakul and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with History categories.
How did terms like “Asia,” “Eurasia,” “Indochina,” “Pacific Rim” or “Australasia” originate and evolve, and what are their connections to the built environment? In addressing this question,Architecturalized Asia bridges the fields of history and architecture by taking “Asia” as a discursive structure and cultural construct, whose spatial and ideological formation can be examined through the lenses of cartography, built environments, and visual narratives. The first section, on the study of architecture in Asia from the medieval through early modern periods, examines icons and symbols in maps as well as textual descriptions produced in Europe and Asia. The second section explores the establishment of the field of Asian architecture as well as the political and cultural imagining of “Asia” during the long nineteenth century, when “Asia” and its regions were redefined in the making of modern world maps mainly produced in Europe. The third section examines tangible structures produced in the twentieth century as legible documents of these notional constructions of Asia. In exploring the ways in which “Asia” has been drawn and framed both within and without the continent, this volume offers cutting-edge scholarship on architectural history, world history and the history of empires. Written by architectural historians and historians specializing in Asia and European empires, this unique volume addresses the connection between Asia and the world through the lenses of built environments and spatial conceptualizations. Architecturalized Asiawill appeal to readers who are interested in Asian architecture, world architecture, Asian history, history of empires, and world history.
Architecturalized Asia
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Author : Vimalin Rujivacharakul
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Architecturalized Asia written by Vimalin Rujivacharakul and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architecture categories.
in Mapping Asia: Architectural Symbols from Medieval to Early Modern Periods, authors examine icons and symbols in maps and textual descriptions and other early evidence about Asian architecture. Incorporating archival materials from Asia and Europe, the essays present views of Asian architecture seen from those who lived on the continent, those who saw themselves residing along the margins, and those who identified themselves as outsiders. The second section, Conjugating Asia: The Long-Nineteenth Century and its Impetus, explores the construction of the field of Asian architecture and the political imagination of Asian built environments in the nineteenth century.
Southeast Asia S Modern Architecture
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Author : Jiat-Hwee Chang
language : en
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Release Date : 2019
Southeast Asia S Modern Architecture written by Jiat-Hwee Chang and has been published by National University of Singapore Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Architecture categories.
What is the modern in Southeast Asia's architecture and how do we approach its study critically? This pathbreaking multidisciplinary volume is the first critical survey of Southeast Asia's modern architecture. It looks at the challenges of studying this complex history through the conceptual frameworks of translation, epistemology, and power. Challenging Eurocentric ideas and architectural nomenclature, the authors examine the development of modern architecture in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, with a focus on selective translation and strategic appropriation of imported ideas and practices by local architects and builders. The book transforms our understandings of the region's modern architecture by moving beyond a consideration of architecture as an aesthetic artifact and instead examining its entanglement with different dynamics of power.
Chinese Architecture In An Age Of Turmoil 200 600
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Author : Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Chinese Architecture In An Age Of Turmoil 200 600 written by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Architecture categories.
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 the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples, tombs, and cities, and almost without exception, the architecture was grounded in the building tradition of China. Illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, maps, and drawings, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil uses all available evidence--Chinese texts, secondary literature in six languages, excavation reports, and most important, physical remains--to present the architectural history of this tumultuous period in China's history. Its author, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, arguably North America's leading scholar of pre-modern Chinese architecture, has done field research at nearly every site mentioned, many of which were unknown twenty years ago and have never been described in a Western language. The physical remains are a handful of pagodas, dozens of cave-temples, thousands of tombs, small-scale evidence of architecture such as sarcophaguses, and countless representations of buildings in paint and relief sculpture. Together they narrate an expansive architectural history that offers the first in-depth study of the development, century-by-century, of Chinese architecture of third through the sixth centuries, plus a view of important buildings from the two hundred years before the third century and the resolution of architecture of this period in later construction. The subtext of this history is an examination of Chinese architecture that answers fundamental questions such as: What was achieved by a building system of standardized components? Why has this building tradition of perishable materials endured so long in China? Why did it have so much appeal to non-Chinese empire builders? Does contemporary architecture of Korea and Japan enhance our understanding of Chinese construction? How much of a role did Buddhism play in construction during the period under study? In answering these questions, the book focuses on the relation between cities and monuments and their heroic or powerful patrons, among them Cao Cao, Shi Hu, Empress Dowager Hu, Gao Huan, and lesser-known individuals. Specific and uniquely Chinese aspects of architecture are explained. The relevance of sweeping--and sometimes uncomfortable--concepts relevant to the Chinese architectural tradition such as colonialism, diffusionism, and the role of historical memory also resonate though the book.
Spirits And Ships
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Author : Andrea Acri
language : en
Publisher: Iseas Publishing
Release Date : 2017
Spirits And Ships written by Andrea Acri and has been published by Iseas Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
This volume seeks to foreground a "borderless" history and geography of South, Southeast, and East Asian littoral zones that would be maritime-focused, and thereby explore the ancient connections and dynamics of interaction that favoured the encounters among the cultures found throughout the region stretching from the Indian Ocean littorals to the Western Pacific, from the early historical period to the present. Transcending the artificial boundaries of macro-regions and nation-states, and trying to bridge the arbitrary divide between (inherently cosmopolitan) "high" cultures (e.g. Sanskritic, Sinitic, or Islamicate) and "local" or "indigenous" cultures, this multidisciplinary volume explores the metaphor of Monsoon Asia as a vast geo-environmental area inhabited by speakers of numerous language phyla, which for millennia has formed an integrated system of littorals where crops, goods, ideas, cosmologies, and ritual practices circulated on the sea-routes governed by the seasonal monsoon winds. The collective body of work presented in the volume describes Monsoon Asia as an ideal theatre for circulatory dynamics of cultural transfer, interaction, acceptance, selection, and avoidance, and argues that, despite the rich ethnic, linguistic and sociocultural diversity, a shared pattern of values, norms, and cultural models is discernible throughout the region.
Nueva Espa A
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Author : Carmen Yuste López
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Nueva Espa A written by Carmen Yuste López and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Asia categories.
Cross Cultural Exchange And The Colonial Imaginary
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Author : H. Hazel Hahn
language : en
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Release Date : 2019
Cross Cultural Exchange And The Colonial Imaginary written by H. Hazel Hahn and has been published by National University of Singapore Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Southeast Asia categories.
For years, the study of how culture operates in colonial contexts was dominated by the ideas of transmission and influence. Yet the more we learn, the less useful those concepts seem to be. This collection deliberately complicates the binary of colonizer and colonized in order to establish a more effective framework for understanding. The contributors address a wide range of questions, rooted in specific colonial experiences: How can a controversy about forms of deference in Java reveal tensions around colonial policies and the rise of nationalism? What was Vietnamese about the French colonial governor's palace in Hanoi? What can the circulation of jazz in Asia tell us about its evolution, circuits of exchange, colonial culture, and its appropriation? Through such inquiries, the volume traces the multilinear trajectories of the flow of decorative objects, architectural styles, photographs, sartorial practices, music, deference rituals, and ethnographic knowledge, in a transimperial framework within and beyond Southeast Asia and Europe. Highlighting a wide range of actors along with their motivations and interactions, this volume treats cultural heritage as dynamic processes.
Shaping World Architecture
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Author : Vimalin Rujivacharakul
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Release Date : 2019-09-05
Shaping World Architecture written by Vimalin Rujivacharakul and has been published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Architecture categories.
Shaping World Architecture examines Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method and 120 years of reactions to this classic book. From Victorian England and the British Empire, through two World Wars and into 20th century postcolonial landscapes, it shows how 'Banister Fletcher' can be used as a lens to explore the mechanisms of architectural history, global knowledge exchange, and the emergence of regional architectural histories. This is a book about the translation of architectural ideas in a global context and how generations of historians and architects responded to Fletcher's analyses, as much as it is about Banister Fletcher's book itself. Featuring new archival research and intriguing anecdotes, it probes the dissemination of the multiple editions 'Banister Fletcher' worldwide. It demonstrates how early editions of the book created a two-way transfer of knowledge between Fletcher and his readers in Asia, North America, and Europe, and how their invigorated search for new forms of architectural evolution charted a significant milestone in the development of regional histories of architecture. Carefully balancing responses to 'Banister Fletcher' – both favourable and fiercely critical – this book offers a re-reading of a classic text that is still read worldwide today, and provides insights for students into interpreting key texts of architectural history. Shaping World Architecture is valuable for all scholars and researchers interested in the history and historiography of world architecture, and in the methodologies of architectural history.
Nigeria
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978-08
Nigeria written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-08 with Nigeria categories.
The Extramural Sanctuary Of Demeter And Persephone At Cyrene Libya The Site S Architecture Its First Six Hundred Years Of Development
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Extramural Sanctuary Of Demeter And Persephone At Cyrene Libya The Site S Architecture Its First Six Hundred Years Of Development written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Cyrene (Extinct city) categories.