Main entry:

Zhu, Jianfei, 1962-

Title & Author:

Architecture of modern China : a historical critique / Jianfei Zhu.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Description:

xvi, 316 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
"Glossary of Chinese expressions": p. [271]-272.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) and index.
Introduction : 1. Modern Chinese architecture: a social, historical and formal analysis -- 2. Perspective as symbolic form: Beijing, 1729-35 -- For the nation : 3. The architect and a nationalist project: Nanjing, 1925-37 -- 4. A spatial revolution: Beijing, 1949-59 -- Transition : 5. The 1980's and 1990's: liberalizaion -- 6. Criticality in between China and the West, 1996-2004 / comments from G. Baird, Y.H. Chang, P. Eisenmann, L. Liu, M.Speaks and other architects/critics: a conversation -- 7. A Global site and a different criticality -- In the world : 8. Beijing, 2008: a history -- Formlessness : 9. Geometries of life and formlessness: a Chinese urban tradition -- In hindsight : 10. Twenty plateaus, 1910s-2010s.

Summary:

A collection of essays on architecture of modern China, arranged chronologically covering a period from 1729 to 2008, focusing mainly on the twentieth century. The distinctive feature of this book is a blending of ʻcriticalʼ and ʻhistoricalʼ research, taking a long-range perspective transcending the current scene and the Maoist period."--Publisher description.

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ISBN:

9780415457804 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415457807 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415457811 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415457815 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture China.
Architecture Chine.
Architecture.
Architektur
Arkitektur Kina.
China Architektur Geschichte 1700-2004.
China.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274476
Call No.: NA1540 .Z57 2009
Status: External loan