The Weiwu At Dafuzhen
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| Author | : Paul Memmott |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2023-11-16 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1350294322 |
Design and the Vernacular explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization, focussing on the vast and diverse global region of Australasia and Oceania. The relevance and role of vernacular architecture in contemporary urban planning and architectural design are examined in the context of rapid political, economic, technological, social and environmental changes, including globalization, exchanges of people, finance, material culture, and digital technologies. Sixteen chapters by architects designers and theorists, including Indigenous writers, explore key questions about the agency of vernacular architecture in shaping contemporary building and design practice. These questions include: How have Indigenous and First Nations building traditions shaped modern building practices? What can the study of vernacular architecture contribute to debates about sustainable development? And how has vernacular architecture been used to argue for postcolonial modernisation and nation-building and what has been the effect on heritage and conservation? Such questions provide valuable case studies and lessons for architecture in other global regions -- and challenge assumptions about vernacular architecture being anachronistic and static, instead demonstrating how it can shape contemporary architecture, nation building and cultural identities.
| Author | : Jianfei Zhu |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 1016 |
| Release | : 2022-11-30 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1317914716 |
This handbook, representing the collaboration of 40 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of roughly 6,000 years of Chinese architecture, from ancient times to the present. This volume combines a broad-spectrum approach with a thematic framework for investigating Chinese architecture, integrating previously fragmented topics and combining the scholarship of all major periods of Chinese history. By organizing its approach into five parts, this handbook: Traces the practices and traditions of ancient China from imperial authority to folk culture Unveils a rich picture of early modern and republican China, revealing that modernization was already beginning to emerge Describes the social, intellectual, ideological, and formal enterprises of socialist architecture Frames a window on a complex and changing contemporary China by focusing on autonomy, state practices, and geopolitics of design, ultimately identifying its still evolving position on the world stage Examines the existing cultural and political theories to highlight potential avenues for future transformations in Chinese architecture that also retain Chinese identity Providing a pioneering combination of ancient and modern Chinese architecture in one coherent study, this book is a must-read for scholars, students, and educators of Chinese architecture, architectural history and theory, and the architecture of Asia.
| Author | : Qinghua Guo |
| Publisher | : Axel Menges |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9783936681949 |
Two main types of residential architecture have dominated the architecture in the Fujian region in China. They, known as tulou and weiwu, have been developed in parallel. Both for communal living, but distinct from each other in terms of setting, layout, form and size. A good deal is known about tulou which has been inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage in 2008, but existing scholarship on weiwu is lacking. This is a case study about a weiwu at Dafuzhen in central Fujian for two reasons: its architectural and planning sophistication and its commoners status. The weiwu is the Family Xiao’s estate built during 1870–85. Our tasks are: first, to survey in situ each building part of the complex on the current situation with attention to details; second, to portray what are hidden from view with masterly »x-ray± eyes; third, to convey the information in measured drawings at technological and design levels. Our work is graphic and analytical in nature, ranged within a series of research questions: What was the planning made to suit the hillside setting? What was the architectural arrangement made to accommodate the community living? To what extent do water supply and drainage design serve as a planning strategy? This study regards that water management is a key issue which was not a topic of great interest in traditional scholarship. This book offers students and professionals with an expert introduction to vernacular of what has been termed the essence of architecture, with the Dafuzhen weiwu as a case. The work focuses on issues of both architecture and planning with attention to details. The book describes characters and structures, discusses functions and rationales, and investigates methods and techniques at design and construction levels. It is is a masterly survey, graphically and analytically, to achieve a comprehensive presentation of the subject.
| Author | : Rob Krier |
| Publisher | : Axel Menges |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Figure sculpture, German |
| ISBN | : 9783936681666 |
The architect is at all times also an artist. How otherwise would he be able to tame the three-dimensionality of space and subdue the urges of physics and structural mechanics with the creations of his fantasy? This creativity is however mostly restricted purely to its own field. Rob Krier is an exception. For years, he has seen his love of art as a vocation -- one which he nurtures parallel to his work in construction. Fine art should stand in dialogue with architecture and it is Krier's ambition to have iconographic themes brought into the latter, so that they might speak equally to both the occupants of a building and to bystanders, moving them to thoughtful reflection. In his contribution to the European Embankment project in St Petersburg, Krier recently demonstrated the power of architecture and fine art to cross-fertilise. The architects in charge of the urban development of this district are Sergei Tchoban and Evgeny Gerasimov. Krier designed the façade for a 132-metres long building on the Newa riverbank one that looks across the water onto the rear façade of the Hermitage. The vibrancy of the architecture is enhanced by its sculptural ornamentation based on the Balzac theme, 'The Human Comedy'. In this regard, Krier modelled over 50 figures in white clay, as well as around 65 linear metres of reliefs. The short poems that comment on the sculptures also centre on the theme of mankind and its interrelationships in society.
| Author | : Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter |
| Publisher | : Ernst & Sohn |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 1998-03-24 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
Opus 26 Himeji Castle With an introduction by Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter and photographs by Mo Nishikawa 60 pp. with ca. 60 ill., 280 x 300mm, hard-cover, English ISBN 3-433-02714-5, ca. DM 68,00, ?S 498,00, sfr 62,00 Spread over a hill that climbs up from plain, Himeji Castle with its white walls shirnmering in the sunlight like the feathers of a fantastic bird seems to be rising into the blue sky like a great heron. This impression has given it the name "Castle the White Heron." The castle, which has nothing martial about it, on the contrary. It is etxtraordinarily elegant, is undoubtedly ont of Japan's most impressive fortresses.It was built between 1601 and 1609, when the period of war was almost over, and was used primarily for administration and residence, with defence as a secondary role. Thus its aesthetic impact was as important when it was built as its actual purpose as a fortification. The main building in the castle is the Tenshu or Thensu-kaku in the northern part of the complex a wooden structure about 46 m high. Its complicated intermediate roofs make it look more like a skyscraper than a tower. Himeji Castle represent an architectural type that probably does not occur in other areas of the world. Large parts of the building were classified as "kokuho State Treasure" as early as 1951, and others as "important Cultural Property." The building was placed on the World Cultural Heritage list in 1993. Art historian Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter specialized in classical and modern Japanese art and architecture at an early stage, as is shown by numerous publications. her book on the Japanese garden has long been a standard work. Most recently she was involved in publications on architects Kazuo Shinohara and Toyo Ito.Photographer Mo Nishikawa, a pupil of ken Dornon, one of the most important photographers of our century, sees his work as a spiritual and intellectual contemplation of art. His photographs of Katsura Palace, the Himeji Castle and the Ise Shrine are among the great masterpieces of contemporary photography.
| Author | : Hiroshi Watanabe |
| Publisher | : Edition Axel Menges |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9783930698936 |
"Over 500 buildings are presented, from 15th-century Buddhist temples to 20th-century cultural buildings, from venerable folkhouses to works by leading contemporary architects of Japan such as Kenzo Tange, Fumihiko Maki, Arata Isozaki, Hiroshi Hara, Toyo Ito and Riken Yamamoto as well as by foreign architects such as Norman Foster, Peter Eisenman and Steven Holl."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Anne-Catrin Schultz |
| Publisher | : Editions Axel Menges |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9783869050188 |
The term fake suggests forgery but also imitation and reproduction - all processes familiar to contemporary cultural production and everyday life. Fakes in the art world have been the subject of research and publications, while fake buildings and spaces have received less attention in contemporary discourse. This book represents a series of snapshots of the space between fake and real, an exploration that quickly leads to the two attributes being entangled in contemporary attempts to generate genuine authenticity by replicating nostalgic details and superficial references.
| Author | : Hans Dieter Schaal |
| Publisher | : Edition Axel Menges |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Cinematography |
| ISBN | : 3930698862 |
Hans Dieter Schaal worked on almost all important opera houses including those in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Vienna, and Zurich. These projects served as vehicles for his extraordinarily expressive artistic powers, which he used to captivate the public.
| Author | : Shirish Beri |
| Publisher | : Axel Menges |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015-01-07 |
| Genre | : Architectural design |
| ISBN | : 9783936681826 |
The contemporary Indian architect Shirish Beri has built works ranging from private residences to educational complexes and large public projects across India. What is most interesting about this book is its structure. Interspersed with the projects are Beri s written and sketched expressions. The book features about a dozen projects in greater detail, well illustrated with clear drawings, evocative sketches and excellent photographs accompanied by the architect s own analysis of the design process and governing concerns in each project. Accompanying the book is a CD titled -The Unfolding White: Shirish Beri s search for wholeness-."
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Axel Menges |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
At the start of this book Imre Makovecz gently criticises the commentators who first brought his work to the West. He is grateful to them of course, but he claims they only half understood, simplifying and misinterpreting. They presented him as a heroic rebel against the communist system, rather than seeing his battle against a larger enemy that we all still face: this he calls impersonal intelligence. When he remarks that architecture is not regarded as an art in Hungary, but as a service, and that it has no place in the Ministry of Culture, we find it all too familiar. It is perhaps understandable that someone so concerned with cultural memory -- especially long-repressed folk memories -- should arise in much-oppressed Hungary, which was fought over for millennia even before the advent of the Soviet Empire, but the same cultural amnesia is occurring throughout the world, exhibited in increasing rootlessness and placelessness. Perhaps the most misleading reading of all has been Makovecz the wild man or primitive, but this book shows him to be a highly articulate architectural philosopher and intellectual, conversant from the start with a wide range of international sources. There is much more to the work than the expressive image we first encounter. It warmly embraces place and community, and quite aside from its ecological dimension, there is a concern with the building process and the participation of craftsmen that would have warmed William Morris' heart. Most bold and most intriguing is Makovecz's claim to be tapping into ancient and universal folk memories that are lodged in hand-made patterns, gestures and even dance. Over the last century we have had to revise our sense of civilisation, for cities and writing are but five thousand years old, yet our forebears tens of thousand years ago could scarcely have been less intelligent and communicative than ourselves.
