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Article: A Historical Review of Modern Chinese Architecture. .(Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China )(Book Review)
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- Architectural Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China, by Peter G. Rowe and Seng Kuan. MIT Press, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge MA 02142,2002.287 pp., ill., index. Price: $US 34.95.
In China, as in the rest of the world, architects were until comparatively recently mostly craftsmen. What seems to have been missing in China (and also in Japan) were gentleman amateur architects, such as Christopher Wren. Thus the new academically trained architects who made their appearance in the late 19th century were very different persons from the traditional architects. Japan had academically trained architects before China, and they came mostly from ...