Architecture

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The Soul Hidden in Wood: Notes on Chinese Architectural Painting cover
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The Soul Hidden in Wood: Notes on Chinese Architectural Painting Anonymous Beijing Times Chinese Press · 2017 This is a manuscript of Chinese architectural drawings made by an 18th-century French missionary. The original French title is Essai sur l'architectur…
Ancient Sites (Hardcover) cover
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Ancient Sites (Hardcover) Luo Zhewen Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 Ancient Sites is a collection of scholarly essays on ancient Chinese architecture by Luo Zhewen, an architectural historian and pioneer of Great Wall …
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A Brief History of Western Architecture Chen Jie Tsinghua University Press · 2015 This book is an introductory survey of Western architecture for general readers, aiming to sketch concisely the development of Western architecture fr…
Garden Talks cover
Garden Talks Chen Congzhou / Chen Xin Zhonghua Book Company · 2017 Garden Talks is a selection of essays on the culture and art of Chinese gardens by Chen Congzhou, a renowned scholar of classical architecture and gar…
Chinese Vernacular Dwellings cover
Chinese Vernacular Dwellings 齐胜利 / 莫政熹 / 刘俊生 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 Many books on architecture read like textbooks, dense with jargon and hard to approach. The great strength of this book is that it grew out of a docum…
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The City of Domes John D. Barry John J. Newbegin · 1915 The City of Domes is a 1915 architectural and artistic guide by the American writer and architecture critic John D. Barry (1866–1942), subtitled \"A W…
Great Masters' Little Books: Essays of a Clumsy Craftsman (Hardcover) cover
Great Masters' Little Books: Essays of a Clumsy Craftsman (Hardcover) Liang Sicheng Beijing Publishing House · 2016 This book is a collection of architectural essays by the architectural historian Liang Sicheng, included in Beijing Publishing House's "Great Masters'…
Creating Landscape in the Open Ground Floor cover
Creating Landscape in the Open Ground Floor 龙涛 Creating Landscape in the Open Ground Floor examines the open ground floor—a distinctive spatial type in residential and public buildings—and discusse…
Everyone's Library: A Brief History of Bridges (Hardcover) cover
Everyone's Library: A Brief History of Bridges (Hardcover) Mao Yisheng Beijing Publishing House · 2016 This book gathers Mao Yisheng's popular-science essays on Chinese bridges. It includes "Bridges," "Talks on Bridges," "Unfolding a Grand Plan: Turning…
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Selected Papers of Fu Xinian 傅熹年 Zhonghua Book Company · 2020 Selected Papers of Fu Xinian is a self-selected collection by Fu Xinian (born 1933), an architectural historian, painting and calligraphy connoisseur,…
Chen Congzhou on Classical Chinese Architecture (2 Volumes) cover
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Chen Congzhou on Classical Chinese Architecture (2 Volumes) Chen Congzhou Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2018 Chen Congzhou on Classical Chinese Architecture is a collection of essays on traditional Chinese architecture by Mr. Chen Congzhou, a scholar of class…
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On Gardens by Zi Weng Chen Congzhou Beijing Publishing House · 2016 Ziweng on Gardens is a selection of essays on gardens by Chen Congzhou, a garden and classical architecture scholar, and one title in Beijing Publishi…
A World Architecture Wanderer's Guide cover
A World Architecture Wanderer's Guide Chen Wenjie / Guo Xueming / Zhang Kequn / 于洋 China Machine Press · 2020 A World Architecture Wanderer's Guide is a general-reader series on architectural culture and architectural history published by China Machine Press (…
Everyone's Little Book: Essays of a Clumsy Craftsman cover
Everyone's Little Book: Essays of a Clumsy Craftsman Liang Sicheng Beijing Publishing House · 2016 Essays of a Clumsy Craftsman is a collection of essays on architectural culture by the architect Liang Sicheng, included in Beijing Publishing House's…
The Craft of Gardens cover
The Craft of Gardens 计成 / Li Shikui / 刘金鹏 Zhonghua Book Company · 2017 The Craft of Gardens is the first systematic treatise on garden-making in China, written by the Ming dynasty garden designer Ji Cheng. Completed durin…
Red Walls and Yellow Tiles: A Pictorial Guide to Old Beijing's Ancient Architecture cover
Red Walls and Yellow Tiles: A Pictorial Guide to Old Beijing's Ancient Architecture Zhang Kequn China Machine Press · 2010 This is the first volume in architect Zhang Kequn's series "Pictorial Guide to Old Beijing's Ancient Architecture," and it is devoted precisely to the…
Morning Bell, Evening Drum: Old Beijing's Ancient Architecture in Words and Pictures cover
Morning Bell, Evening Drum: Old Beijing's Ancient Architecture in Words and Pictures Zhang Kequn China Machine Press · 2011 Morning Bell, Evening Drum is the volume devoted to religious architecture in Zhang Kequn's series Old Beijing's Ancient Architecture in Words and Pic…
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On Gardens Chen Congzhou Yanshan University Press · 2025 On Gardens is a collection of essays on gardens by Chen Congzhou, a scholar of classical architecture and garden art. It brings together his five most…
The Collected Academic Works of Chen Zhenlian (Four Series in Full) cover
The Collected Academic Works of Chen Zhenlian (Four Series in Full) Chen Zhenlian Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House · 2023 The Collected Academic Works of Chen Zhenlian (Four Series in Full)
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Release 阿伏伽德六 Guangdong Tourism Publishing House · 2025 Release is the third full-color art book by Japanese visual artist and illustrator Avogado6. The original Japanese edition was published by KADOKAWA i…