Format:
1 Online-Ressource (413 pages)
ISBN:
9781000223385
Series Statement:
China perspectives
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 0.1 55 BC, Gaul, in today's Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany -- 0.2 1520s, Vicenza, Italy -- 0.3 1481, Milan, Italy -- 0.4 1032, Qinzhou, China -- 0.5 1857, Taishun, Zhejiang, China -- 0.6 1870s, Enshu, Japan -- 0.7 1937, Shouning, Fujian, China -- 0.8 1898, San Francisco, USA -- 0.9 1913, San Marino, California, USA -- 0.10 1955, Wuhan, Hubei, China -- 0.11 2002, Beijing, China -- 0.12 Fade-out to darkness - and then a title appears on the screen -- Part I Woven arch bridges -- 1 From Caesar to Da Vinci: The woven structure's Italian root -- 1.1 Glory to Caesar! -- 1.1.1 Caesar and his Rhine Bridge -- 1.1.2 From a legend to an issue of architecture study -- 1.1.2.1 The Rhine Bridge in Caesar's legend -- 1.1.2.2 The first light from the architecture discipline -- 1.1.2.3 The first illustrator of the Rhine Bridge -- 1.1.2.4 Various Italian illustrations -- 1.1.3 Palladio's Rhine Bridge -- 1.1.3.1 I quattro libri dell'architettura -- 1.1.3.2 I Commentarii di C. Giulio Cesare -- 1.1.3.3 Feasibility of Palladio's restoration -- 1.2 Leonardo da Vinci, the genius mind -- 1.2.1 Leonardo da Vinci's study on Caesar's Rhine Bridge -- 1.2.2 The clamp bridge -- 1.2.3 The woven bridge -- 1.2.4 The woven vault -- References -- 2 A full moon in another land: The Moon Bridge in the Japanese Garden of the Huntington Library -- 2.1 A Japanese landscape in California -- 2.1.1 The Marsh family and the earliest Japanese garden in California1 -- 2.1.2 The Japanese Garden in the Huntington Library -- 2.1.3 San Francisco Drum Bridge -- 2.2 Toichiro Kawai, the Japanese carpenter -- 2.2.1 From Yokohama to Pasadena -- 2.2.2 Projects in the Huntington's Japanese garden -- 2.2.3 Life in Pasadena.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367618230
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Liu, Yan, - 1984- Woven arch bridge London : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367618230
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367624316
Language:
English
Keywords:
Holzbrücke
;
Baukonstruktion
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Geschichte
