Author : Eduard Kögel
Release : 2015-11-13
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 398/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Grand Documentation by : Eduard Kögel
Download or read book The Grand Documentation written by Eduard Kögel. This book was released on 2015-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernst Boerschmann was the most influential foreign architectural researcher in China in the first half of the twentieth century. This book concerns his three-year research expedition through the Chinese Empire (1906–1909). He was the first Westerner to systematically document China’s religious architecture, returning from his travels with thousands of photographs, sketches, and architectural surveys. His six major publications leading up to 1931, described here alongside the reactions they caused, were milestones on the path to formal study of Chinese architectural history, long before Chinese academics themselves began to take interest in the subject in the 1930s.
