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Building a China: Henry K. Murphy's "Adaptive Architecture," 1914-1935

Building in China: Henry K. Murphy's "Adaptive Architecture," 19141935. By Jeffrey W. Cody. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. xxiv + 264 pp. Photos, drawings, bibliography, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-295-98095-8.

Reviewed by Christopher A. Reed

Jeffrey W. Cody's study of American architect Henry K. Murphy (18771954) and his "adaptive Chinese Renaissance" style joins the still-surging tide of works on Chinese cities, urban planning, and architectural design. Significantly for readers of this journal, however, Cody is interested not only in the footprints that particular Murphy designs left on the Chinese urban landscape. He also, in this book, sets Murphy's efforts to ...

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