by Jianfei Zhu (Editor), Chen Wei (Editor), Li Hua (Editor)
This handbook, representing the collaboration of 41 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of roughly 6,000 years of Chinese architecture, from ancient times to the present.
Author Biography
Jianfei Zhu is Professor of East Asian Architecture at Newcastle University UK, author of Chinese Spatial Strategies (2004) and Architecture of Modern China (2009) with Routledge, as well as Forms and Politics (2018) and works on space, power, visuality, and geopolitics with a Chinese focus.
Chen Wei is Professor, Director, History and Theory Research Institute, Southeast University China, eminent historian and architect on literati gardens and author of Private Gardens (1999), Collected Works of Chen Wei (2015), Ornament of Jiangnan (2016), Walking Along the Grand Canal (2 vols, 2013) in Chinese.
Li Hua, PhD (AA), Professor, Deputy Director, History and Theory Research Institute, Southeast University, is author of '"Composition" and Regularisation of Architectural Production in Contemporary China' (2010) and other papers in China's top journal Jianzhu Xuebao, and editor-in-chief of bilingual AS series on architectural theory.