Asia's old dwellings
Subtitle: tradition, resilience, and change
By: edited by Ronald G. Knapp.
Contributors: Knapp, Ronald G., 1940-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- Asia; Vernacular architecture -- Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-485) and index.
Table of contents: title: Asia's diversity and Asia's dwellings: tradition, resilience, and change / Ronald Knapp; title: Himalayan dwellings: a cultural-environmental perspective / David Surick and Nanda Shrestha; title: Patterns and relationships of Indian houses / Allen G. Noble; title: The Sinhala house: landscape experience and domestic order in Kandyan, Sri Lanka / Bonnie G. MacDougall; title: Dwellings in Bangladesh / Bimal Kanti Paul; title: The Singapore shophouse: an Anglo-Chinese urban vernacular / Lee Ho Yin; title: Vietnamese dwellings: tradition, resilience, and change / Susan Balderstone and William Logan; title: Dwellings in Indonesia: tradition, resilience, and change / Gunawan Tjahjono; title: The persistence of tradition in Laos / Colin Long; title: The evolution of the Philippine traditional house / Augusto Villalón; title: Dwellings in Myanmar: ceremony, ritual, and life / Than Than Nwe; title: The Kampong house: evolutionary history of peninsular Malaysia's vernacular houseform / Lee Ho Yin; title: 'Ban Thai': house and culture in a transforming society / Marc Askew; title: Japan's traditional houses: the significance of spatial conceptions / Matsuda Naonori with Mogi Keiichiro; title: China's vernacular architecture / Puay-peng Ho; title: Pile-built dwellings in ethnic southern China: type, myth, and heterogeneity / Xing Ruan; title: Traditional Korean settlements and dwellings / Sang-hae Lee; title: Dwellings in the steppes and deserts of inner Asia / Manu P. Sobti; title: Traditional dwellings of Afghanistan: a multiple paradox / Rafi Samizay.