Chinese Architecture: A Suite Inspired by Nature Grope inside the Palace (SC)

Author(s):

Chiu Kwong-chiu, Ma Kin Chung

Publisher(s):

Guangxi Normal University Press, Beijing Forbidden City Publishing House

Specification:

161 x 228mm

Series:

We All Live in the Forbidden City (Simplified Chinese)

ISBN:

978-7-5495-3013-7

Organised by:

Design and Cultural Studies Workshop

Acknowledgement:

The first phase of this project was sponsored by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation and supported by Palace Museum.

Introduction:

This is an advanced reader of This is the Greatest Place! The Forbidden City and the World of Small Animals. It reveals that the complicated grand palace was built with basic natural materials. In other words, natural materials make the history of Chinese architecture, composing the suite of the grand palace.