Chinese architecture and planning : ideas, methods, techniques / Qinghua Guo.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-164) and index.

Also issued online.

Pt. 1. Architecture -- 1. Formation and early development : architecture in the north -- 2. Kang : characteristics of domestic architectural heating system -- 3. Tomb architecture : old and new questions -- 4. From tower to pagoda : structural and technological transition -- 5. Multi-storeyed pagodas : aspects of technological tradition in East Asia -- 6. Timber building structures in Choson Korea : a comparative approach -- 7. Yingzao Fashi : 12th-century manual for state buildings -- 8. The architecture of joinery : rotating sutra-case cabinets -- 9. Tile and brick making : a study on the Yingzao Fashi -- 10. Architectural drawing : graphic representation methods and techniques -- Pt. 2. Planning -- 11. Shenyang : the Manchurian ideal capital city and imperial palace, 1625-43 -- 12. Changchun : unfinished capital planning of Manzhouguo, 1932-42 -- 13. The urban character of Seoul : Chinese perspectives on Choson planning history.

"This book presents a thematic discussion of architectural history and a critical evaluation of city planning, with a focus on the issues of ideas, methods and techniques in the context of the culture, politics and religion of the pre-modern China. In the book, Qinghua Guo establishes a broad periodisation for the architectural formation and development with a clear conceptual framework for it, and interprets its architectonics and typology in details. This study attempts to identify major characters of Chinese architecture and planning in order to understand how they were formed and why."--BOOK JACKET.