Asia's old dwellings : tradition, resilience, and change /

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Other Authors: Knapp, Ronald G., 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Ansa's Diversity and Asia's Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience, and Change / Ronald G. Knapp
  • 1. Himalayan Dwellings: A Cultural-Environmental Perspective / David Zurick and Nanda Shrestha
  • 2. Patterns and Relationships of Indian Houses / Allen G. Noble
  • 3. The Sinhala House: Landscape Experience and Domestic Order in Kandyan Sri Lanka / Bonnie G. MacDougall
  • 4. Dwellings in Bangladesh / Bimal Kanti Paul
  • 5. The Singapore Shophouse: An Anglo-Chinese Urban Vernacular / Lee Ho Yin
  • 6. Vietnamese Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience, and Change / Susan Balderstone and William Logan
  • 7. Dwellings in Indonesia: Tradition, Resilience, and Change / Gunawan Tjahjono
  • 8. The Persistence of Tradition in Laos / Colin Long
  • 9. The Evolution of the Philippine Traditional House / Augusto Villalon
  • 10. Dwellings of Myanmar: Ceremony, Ritual, and Life / Than Than Nwe
  • 11. The Kampong House: Evolutionary History of Peninsular Malaysia's Vernacular Houseform / Lee Ho Yin
  • 12. 'Ban Thai': House and Culture in a Transforming Society / Marc Askew
  • 13. Japan's Traditional Houses: The Significance of Spatial Conceptions / Matsuda Naonori and Mogi Keiichiro
  • 14. China's Vernacular Architecture / Puay-peng Ho
  • 15. Pile-Built Dwellings in Ethnic Southern China: Type, Myth, and Heterogeneity / Xing Ruan
  • 16. Traditional Korean Settlements and Dwellings / Sang-hae Lee
  • 17. Dwellings in the Steppes and Deserts of Inner Asia / Manu P. Sobti
  • 18. Traditional Dwellings of Afghanistan: A Multiple Paradox / Rafi Samizay.