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Article: Modern Chinese architecture.(Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China)(Book Review)
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- Architectural Science Review
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- June 1, 2005
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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 02142-1407, 2002. 281 pp., ill., index Pbk. Price: $US21.95.
Peter Rowe is Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a chair occupied at an earlier time by Walter Gropius; Seng Kuan is one of his graduate students. In this volume they explore the history of the impact of Western architecture on China, following the conclusion of the 'Opium War' in 1842 which forced the opening of China to the West by creating foreign settlements in five treaty ports.
The most important of these was Shanghai, where ...