Architecturalized Asia - Mapping a Continent Through History

Explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons, and symbols in different historical settings. It grows out of a three-year project focusing on cultural exchange in the making of Asia's boundaries as well as its architectural styles and achievements. Regions and conditions covered in Architecturalized Asia include French Indochina, Iran, post-Soviet Central Asia, Japanese landscape, and the construction of the Afro-Asian built environment.

About the author

Vimalin Rujivacharakul is associate professor of art and architectural history at the University of Delaware, USA.

H. Hazel Hahn is associate professor of history at Seattle University, USA.

Ken Tadashi Oshima is associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington, USA.

Peter Christensen is research associate at Technische Universita?t Mu?nchen (TU Munich), Germany.

Summary

This book explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons and symbols in different historical settings.

Product details

• Authors: Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Vimalin (EDT)/ Hahn Rujivacharakul
• Assisted by: Peter Christensen (Editor), H Hazel Hahn (Editor), H. Hazel Hahn (Editor), Ken Tadashi Oshima (Editor), Vimalin Rujivacharakul (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2014
• EAN: 9780824839529
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3952-9
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Spatial Habitus (Hardcover); Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture; Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Vernacular Architecture S.; Spatial Habitus: Making and Me; Spatial Habitus (Hardcover); Spatial Habitus: Making & Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture