Download or read book Research Guide for China s Response to the West written by Ssu-yu Teng and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book K ung tzu Or Confucius written by Paul A. Rule and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards an Organic Architecture written by Bruno Zevi and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ethical Function of Architecture written by Karsten Harries and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998-07-31 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers that architecture should serve a common ethos. But if architecture is to meet that task, it first has to free itself from the dominant formalist approach, and get beyond the notion that its purpose is to produce endless variations of the decorated shed. In a series of cogent and balanced arguments, Harries questions the premises on which architects and theorists have long relied—premises which have contributed to architecture's current identity crisis and marginalization. He first criticizes the aesthetic approach, focusing on the problems of decoration and ornament. He then turns to the language of architecture. If the main task of architecture is indeed interpretation, in just what sense can it be said to speak, and what should it be speaking about? Expanding upon suggestions made by Martin Heidegger, Harries also considers the relationship of building to the idea and meaning of dwelling. Architecture, Harries observes, has a responsibility to community; but its ethical function is inevitably also political. He concludes by examining these seemingly paradoxical functions.
Download or read book Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject written by K. Michael Hays and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer, and more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Drawing both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Challenging much of the traditional wisdom about modernism and the avant-garde, Hays argues that a rigorously articulated "posthumanist" position was actually developed in the modernist architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. He reinterprets their buildings, projects, and writings as constructions of this new category of subjectivity.
Download or read book The Architectural Theory of Viollet le Duc written by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1990-03-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among architects and preservationists, the writings of Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) have long been considered major resources. They inspired a generation of American architects, including Frank Furness, John Wellborn Root, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1894, the critic Montgomery Schuyler observed that Viollet-le-Duc's books "have had the strongest influence on this generation of readers." But for the past century, all but one of his works have been out of print in English. These readings carefully selected from the entire range of Viollet-le-Duc's work make available the historical insights and practical principles of one of the most imaginative, and inspiring architectural theorists of the modern era. M.F. Hearn has culled from Viollet-le-Duc's books on architecture the passages in which his major ideas about the theory of architecture are most cogently expressed.Hearn has arranged and interplated the readings in a sequence of topics covering Viollet-le-Duc's views on the architecture of the past, his convictions about the education of architects, his philosophy of method, principles of design, and his guidelines for restoration. The selections are introduced by a biographical essay connected by interpretive commentaries, and followed by a biographical note.
Download or read book Vernacular Modernism written by Maiken Umbach and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.
Download or read book Design in Mind written by Bryan Lawson and published by Architectual Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design in Mind is based upon interviews with eleven well-known but quite different architects. The resulting case studies illustrate their works and their design processes, which are interpreted, compared and commented upon by Bryan Lawson using the models in How Designers Think, his earlier successful text. A particular feature of the book is the inclusion of original design drawings by the eleven architects. There are many monographs published on individual architects but this book provides an alternative approach in investigating the main issues in the thought process behind a designer's work. A number of key themes that arise out of the interviews are discussed by Bryan Lawson in the final chapter.
Download or read book Architecture in Transition written by Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (Architect, Town planner, Greece) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Traditional Buildings of England written by Anthony Quiney and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other country in the world offers so rich and varied a heritage of traditional buildings as England. Anthony Quiney--with the aid of his own photographs and helpful drawings--gives a complete and vivid picture of the rise and fall of the traditional buildings of England. Photographs and illustrations.
Download or read book The Rule and the Model written by Françoise Choay and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in France in 1980, this book was awarded the "Grand Prix de la Critique d'Architecture". It examines the author's hypothesis about the tradition of theorizing architecture and urbanism, demonstrating that this discourse has been organized by two formulations: the rule and the model.
Download or read book The Wheelwright s Shop written by George Sturt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Sturt's account of his trade as a wheelwright offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of late nineteenth century craftsmen. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book The Story of a House written by George Towle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book The China of Chiang K ai Shek A Political Study written by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek' by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger is a seminal study of Chinese politics during the mid-twentieth century, providing an in-depth exploration of the government under Chiang Kai-shek. The book discusses key issues like constitutional change, political organs of the national government, administrative organs, provincial and local government, and the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, and other minor parties. It examines the impact of Japanese and pro-Japanese forces on the Chinese government and analyzes extra-political forces such as mass education and rural reconstruction. The book also evaluates the ideologies of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of China's political climate during this crucial period.
Download or read book China written by Lewis A. Maverick and published by . This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bringing the World Home written by Theodore Huters and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that marks a watershed between the conservative old regime and the ostensibly iconoclastic New Culture of the 1920s. Although generally overlooked in the effort to understand modern Chinese history, the era has much to teach us about cultural accommodation and is characterized by its own unique intellectual life. This original and probing work traces the most significant strands of the new post-1895 discourse, concentrating on the anxieties inherent in a complicated process of cultural transformation. It focuses principally on how the need to accommodate the West was reflected in such landmark novels of the period as Wu Jianren’s Strange Events Eyewitnessed in the Past Twenty Years and Zhu Shouju’s Tides of the Huangpu, which began serial publication in Shanghai in 1916. The negative tone of these narratives contrasts sharply with the facile optimism that characterizes the many essays on the "New Novel" appearing in the popular press of the time. Neither iconoclasm nor the wholesale embrace of the new could square the contradicting intellectual demands imposed by the momentous alternatives presenting themselves. An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher.
