Author | Rowe, Peter G |
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Title | Architectural encounters with essence and form in modern China [electronic resource] / Peter G. Rowe and Seng Kuan |
Imprint | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002 |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=78104 |
Descript | 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Traditionalism versus modernism in China -- Foreign influences and the first generation of Chinese architects -- Four architectural attitudes toward modernization -- The "big roof" controversy -- Struggles with modernism -- The "culture fever" -- A commodification and internationalization of architecture -- Modernization in China