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Author: Alfred Schinz Publisher: Edition Axel Menges ISBN: 3930698021 Category : Cities and towns Languages : en Pages : 434
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Presents the development of Chinese urbanism. Equipped with source material and maps, this book applies metrological methods. Including about 300 drawings, it gives an overall view of the urban life and culture that existed in the traditional society of late Imperial China.
Author: Alfred Schinz Publisher: Edition Axel Menges ISBN: 3930698021 Category : Cities and towns Languages : en Pages : 434
Book Description
Presents the development of Chinese urbanism. Equipped with source material and maps, this book applies metrological methods. Including about 300 drawings, it gives an overall view of the urban life and culture that existed in the traditional society of late Imperial China.
Author: Sarah Handler Publisher: Ten Speed Press ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 248
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This is the first book to place Ming furniture design within the context of Chinese architectural intent. Illustrating spectacular examples of Ming furniture from private and museum collections around the world; construction and function come together in a harmonious and indivisible whole.
Author: Ronald G. Knapp Publisher: Tuttle Publishing ISBN: 1462906680 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 650
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Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Architecture "Book of the Year" Award! Exquisite examples of traditional dwellings are scattered throughout modern-day China. Chinese Houses focuses on 20 well-preserved traditional Chinese homes, presenting examples from a range of rural and metropolitan areas throughout China. The photographs of each are accompanied by extensive background information and historical content. An introductory essay examines the different types of Chinese homes and provides an overview of the rich regional variety of Chinese dwelling forms. It also provides insights into little-known design concepts that emphasize the flexibility, adaptability, and versatility of traditional building forms and the work of traditional craftsmen. Richly illustrated with photographs, woodblock prints, historic images, and line drawings, Chinese Houses portrays an architectural tradition of amazing range and resilience.
Author: J.G. R. Forlong Publisher: Рипол Классик ISBN: 5872678789 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 685
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Sources and streams of the faiths of man in all lands; showing the evolution of faiths from the rudest symbolism to the latest spiritual developments
Author: Richard Weston Publisher: ISBN: 9788791567209 Category : Architects Languages : en Pages : 0
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"His work will live as long as architecture is valued, and his ultimate legacy is ethical, not formal: a way of working, not a repertoire of form." The Sydney Opera House is the most celebrated modern building in the world yet it’s architect has always shunned publicity and remain the least well known of the major modern architects. Richard Weston’s book, subtitled "Inspiration - Vision - Architecture", finally opens the door to Utzon’s techniques and creative processes. Observations and anecdotes by Utzon, supplemented with a wealth of sketches and drawings from his personal archives, draws the reader into the amazing visionary world of one of the greatest living architects.
Author: Austin Coates Publisher: Hong Kong University Press ISBN: 9622090761 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
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The city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. The promises are those made by Englishmen to marry their Macao mistresses, only to leave them abandoned and their children bastards. Martha Merop and her English lover are unique in this period. He, son of the founder of Lloyd's and cousin of the philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, was one of the first merchants to oppose the trade in opium. She, Chinese, abandoned at birth and sold into prostitution at the age of thirteen, became an international trader in her own right, the richest woman on the China Coast and Macao's greatest public benefactress. This moving novel that captures the time and place so convincingly is a historical reconstruction of the years 1780 to 1795 when the two were together. It is based on oral tradition handed down through generations in Macao, and on documents that survive about them in Macao, Lisbon and London. Austin Coates identified Martha Merop’s lover, about whom little was known. The documents about him confirmed the traditional Macao story, and the outcome was this book.
Author: Ingrid Hoffmann Publisher: ISBN: 9781580406819 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages :
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Celebrate the joys of Latin cooking and healthy eating with Latin Comfort Foods Made Healthy! Cooking personality Ingrid Hoffmann presents a collection of more than 100 traditional Latin recipes that are delicious and easy with a healthy twist. Ingrid's recipes are satisfying, bursting with flavor, and designed to meet the nutritional guidelines of the American Diabetes Association.
Author: Filomeno V. Aguilar Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 9780824820824 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
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This text illuminates the oral traditions of the Philippines and the convergence of capitalism and the indigenous spirit world. The author examines the social relations, cultural meanings and political struggles surrounding the rise of sugar haciendas on Negros during the late Spanish colonial period, and their subsequent transformation under the aegis of the American colonial state. Drawing on oral history, interviews and a wide array of sources culled from archives in Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Philippines, the author reconstructs the emergence of a sugar-planter class and its strategic maneuvers to attain hegemony. The book portrays local actors taking an active role in shaping the external forces that impinge on their lives. It examines hacienda life from the indigenous perspective of magic and spirit beliefs, reinterpreting several critical phases of Philippine history in the process. By analyzing mythic tales as bearers of historical consciousness, the author explores the complex interactions between local culture, global interventions, and capitalist market forces.
Author: Alfred Schinz
Author: Alfred Schinz
Author: Sarah Handler
Author: Ronald G. Knapp
Author: J.G. R. Forlong
Author: Richard Weston
Author: Ssu-ch eng Liang
Author: Austin Coates
Author: Ingrid Hoffmann
Author: Levins
Author: Filomeno V. Aguilar