On the fertile land of Shanxi, where the essence of Chinese civilization thrives, lie the most magnificent codes of ancient Chinese architecture. From the towering Buddhist temples to the exquisite ...

Though architectural history courses and texts now feature prehistoric, native, and non-Western architecture, as a rule, time spent on the rich, longstanding tradition of East Asian building arts is ...

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Liu Jiakun. Image © Tom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation:The Pritzker Architecture Prize I first went to China in 2002, a year after the International Olympic ...