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Ieoh Ming Pei Pritzker Prize Laureate Your starting place for exploring the life and works of the Pritzker Prize winning architect I.M. Pei.
Buddhist Art Buddhist art takes many forms - calligraphy, painting, sculpture, statuary and architecture. Whether it's the fluent strokes of Japanese watercolors or the rich iconography of Tibetan thangkas, there is a wealth of beautiful artefacts. All of these s
Buddhist Art - page 2 of 2 Buddhist art takes many forms - calligraphy, painting, sculpture, statuary and architecture. Whether it's the fluent strokes of Japanese watercolors or the rich iconography of Tibetan thangkas, there is a wealth of beautiful artefacts. All of these s
Esplanade Performance Center in Singapore Commentary on the new Esplanade performance center in Singapore
China Cruise Pictures Pictures from a cruise tour to China that included stops in Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Wuxi, and ports along the Yangtze River.
The Tang architectural icon and the politics of Chinese architectural history
The discovery in June 1937 of a wooden building, the east hall of Foguang Monastery, reliably dated to the year 857 by two inscriptions, one on the building itself and the other on a small, octagon...(Continue Reading) Water sprites and ancestor spirits: reading the architecture of Jinci
Jinci, or the Memorial Shrine of Jin, perhaps the most unconventional shrine complex in China, occupies a verdant site near the remains of ancient Jinyang, ......(Continue Reading)At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. By Erika Lee (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 331 ......(Continue Reading)"Living well" on Naoshima: in a spectacular island setting enhanced by two Tadao Ando structures, a Japanese publishing company nurtures an ambitious art-and-architecture
Imagine a tiny Japanese island where you can encounter works by Walter De Maria, Bruce Nauman, Jean-Michel Basquiat and James Turrell--just for starters--at ......(Continue Reading)Shelf life - Hey Hey? Ho Ho! - books about globalism, synagogue architecture, founding fathers - book review
In the rhetoric of malcontents of all stripes-Left, Right, and center- "globalization" has become the all-purpose bogeyman, the deepest "root cause" ......(Continue Reading)
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