Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture Series

13 primary works • 13 total works
Books in the Spatial Habitus series explore the socio-cultural, historical, and environmental factors that influence the structure and meaning of Asia’s architecture—the buildings, settlements, cities, and landscapes of more than half the world’s population. Drawing on the original research of established as well as younger scholars, the series—ric…
Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts
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· 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2011 · 6 editions
In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditiona…
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Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the Yingzao Fashi Building Manual
Investigating the historical tradition of Chinese …
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Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
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· 52 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2013 · 5 editions
A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs E…
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Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea
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· 2 Ratings · published 2013 · 7 editions
Although modernization in Korea started more than …
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China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing
When the Chinese Nationalist Party nominally reuni…
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The Hermit's Hut: Architecture and Asceticism in India
The Hermit's Hut offers an original insight into t…
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Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent through History
This collection explores built environments and vi…
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Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600
Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and …
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Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius
The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) in Qufu is t…
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Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital
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· 33 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2014 · 5 editions
Kyoto was Japan’s political and cultural capital f…
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Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940
Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, wi…
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Diversity in the Great Unity: Regional Yuan Architecture

Timber-framed architecture has long been viewed as…

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Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973
“Utopia” is a word not often associated with the c…
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