Allegorical architecture : living myth and architectonics in southern China /

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"Allegorical Architecture offers the first detailed architectural analysis of built forms and building types of the minority groups in southern China and of the Dong nationality in particular. It argues that Dong architecture symbolically resembles it inhabitants in many ways."--Jacket

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ruan, Xing, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2006.
Series:Spatial habitus (Series)
Subjects:
Architecture, Dong.
Ethnic architecture > China, Southwest.
Vernacular architecture > China, Southwest.
Symbolism in architecture > China, Southwest.
Architecture dong.
Architecture ethnique > Chine (Sud-Ouest)
Architecture vernaculaire > Chine (Sud-Ouest)
Symbolisme en architecture > Chine (Sud-Ouest)
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Residential.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
Ethnic architecture.
Symbolism in architecture.
Vernacular architecture.
Symbolik
Volksarchitektur
Southwest China.
China > Südwest
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Architectonic fabrications of minorities
  • 2. Myth and ritualistic postures
  • 3. Choral symbolization
  • 4. Type, myth, and heterogeneity
  • 5. Out of time.

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